It's Christmas Day day for season one.
Star Trek: Prodigy Finds New Home At Netflix
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A very nice present.
Do we think Prodigy & Discovery will overlap in 2024?
I know SNW S3 was set to film when the strike hit. I assume that will get ramped up again pretty quickly. IDK for Academy and the S31 movie. I assume the movie will take longer to get going. I'd also assume Netflix will wait on Prodigy's numbers before making a S3 decision.
Seems to me LD S5 and SNW S3 are most likely to get done first.
Those seem to be Trek's most reliable performers, at least for now.
IMO, the smart move would be to wait until January to begin filming SNW. They begin filming now, they won't get too far before they have to shut down for Christmas break. Then again, word around the grapevine is that's exactly what the Network shows are planning on doing, so who knows.
Lower Decks definitely sounds like a safe bet, based on comments Mike McMahan has made in interviews.
The Director's Guild of Canada states they have booked December through July for filming, and one of the directors has already flown to Toronto for pre-production.
Though I am thrilled with Prodigy getting a new home, I will be skipping out on the second season as I have no desire to get a subscription to Netflix. I am not happy with the streaming network for its constant cancellations of shows and for its blackwashing of history.
I've tried to find shows that are accused of blackwashing, the only one I could find, quickly, was the Cleopatra series. I don't think I would cancel/or not join a subscription to a streamer because historians think that a character had a different skin colour in one TV series, even if it was a documentary that wasn't completely true, I would just skip that program (edited to add) if it was something that bothered me. It's not as if that is the only Netflix (original) content, but to each their own.
If Paramount hadn't decided that the Netherlands was one of the exceptions, as in Prodigy remains on SkyShowtime and won't be on Netflix, I would have loved to watch it on Netflix.
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There is a new show coming up about Hannibal. Denzel Washington is playing the Carthaginian general.
Hannibal: Denzel Washington Will Star In New Antoine Fuqua War Movie - Netflix Tudum
Hannibal: Denzel Washington Will Star In New Antoine Fuqua War Movie - Netflix Tudum
Section 31 is supposed to start filming in January.
TMK, SFA is still in preproduction.
Okay that would make two series out of I don't know how many Netflix series there are. Still wouldn't bother me. Plus it's Denzel Washington, if they cast him as anything they have excellent reasons for saying, he was the best actor for the job. Love me some Denzel!
You do realise that Carthage was in Africa, don't you?
Yes; however, just because you are born into Africa does not mean you are automatically black.
My biggest issue with this is that are many black people who Netflix could do a documentary on.
Black historical figures who shook the world, from a warrior queen to a Mexican president | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)
Instead, they chose to blackwash history. There is a YouTube video about Hannibal Barca and this issue.
Netflix Did it Again! Was Hannibal Barca Black? - YouTube
Finally, I would like to apologize to anyone who feels that I have taken this discussion off track.
My biggest issue with this is that are many black people who Netflix could do a documentary on.
Black historical figures who shook the world, from a warrior queen to a Mexican president | World Economic Forum (weforum.org)
Instead, they chose to blackwash history. There is a YouTube video about Hannibal Barca and this issue.
Netflix Did it Again! Was Hannibal Barca Black? - YouTube
Finally, I would like to apologize to anyone who feels that I have taken this discussion off track.
Thanks for the apology. I feel that the discussion of blackwashing is a show-unrelated tangent that should be discussed in another forum, like Misc or TNZ.
As for cancellations of shows, they did a survey that showed on average, Netflix cancels shows no more than other networks, and in fact less than some of its competitors. It just greenlights more shows, so it seems like more.
But not only have Netflix, Max and the rest not invented the practice of killing shows, they are still relative amateurs at it. A 2023 study by The Wrap found that Netflix formally canceled a mere 11 percent of its new shows, far below the broadcast rate.
Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/08/...ytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
As for options, you can always get the series on BluRay or digital when it is available.
I do certainly hope that whatever agreement was signed does allow for a blu-ray release by Paramount. Netflix is not usually the greatest with home media releases.
Usually for Netflix the big divide is between programs produced by Netflix vs acquisitions. Warner Bros has scheduled/released WEDNESDAY, SANDMAN, and the later seasons of LUCIFER. Sony has done THE CROWN.
PRODIGY season 1 sold well enough on Blu-ray that Paramount would realize they'd be leaving money on the table if they didn't put out season 2, and instead people found the "Chinese edition" on eBay.
The Prodigy trailer is back on the Star Trek YouTube channel in time for the arrival on Netflix, after it disappeared.
I noticed that the first episode is split in two parts on Netflix. Are there scenes excised from the split versions like it was in the case of Berman era double length episodes?
