They started out with 2 season from the get go, so it was not renewed.
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Renewed.
Quite right Elaise. Even though this show is tanking they have to release season 3 as its done. Too bad we got this show for the 60th. Also we get a puppet episode on SNW. Lol
Daniels looks around Kovich's office.
"You've redecorated. I don't like it."
According to Google AI:
Starfleet Academy US Streaming: collected 2.1M viewers for the first eight days. While small compared to Taylor Sheridan series, it is above the full season averages for the [SNW S2 & Pic S3 - $1.3M]. Academy is still well ahead [1.6M 2 episode number for SNW S3
A slighly odd statement because all shows lose viewers after the premiere, making that comparison a bit disingenuous. According to the website 'Redshirts never die', it debuted at number 3 on Paramount plus, behind Landman and South Park. I didn't even know that South Park was still a thing!
I guess time will tell if it finds an audience and we see a third season. But at the moment, I don't see how its a good investment.
Landman started at over 5 million views its first season and the end of the first at about 16 million. Academy is far behind even labdmans initial 5 million. Also its losing ground not gaining.
They hoped to hook people with explosions and battle but after that its been downhill. They spent a huge amount of the budget on the first episode. The battles and explosions hooked some but the poor quality and writing of the next two episodes is sinking the show.
I will always be astounded by the psychic abilities of some people to determine an episode they haven't seen has poor writing.
The question is probably whether it's pulling in more viewers to the platform than another season of Disco. The answer seems be very much yes.
Said it before but the show was doomed from the start due to a confluence of factors:
- Kurtzman-era Trek doesn't seem to have made much of a cultural impact; only Discovery appears to have performed impressively in viewership and yet it's left zero footprint. Therefore, there's not really a huge dedicated viewerbase who think "oh, shit, more Star Trek, gotta check it out!!" - a lot of TOS/Berman fans have been fully alienated by this point, and the new stuff doesn't appear to have garnered a sizeable fanbase of its own
- The marketing for this was abominable. The 90210 poster, the trailers making it look like an extension of Discovery. Why the fuck did none of the pre-release material show off the humour? Why was it all gloomy music and shots of people looking tense? WHY THE 90210 POSTER
- The decision to target it at Gen Z is bizarre, because there's no way they're gonna tune into this shit. I like the show but the "how do you do, fellow kids" aspect is oozing from every pore of it.
It's sad because this is, so far at least, the best thing since SNW's early first season. It still doesn't feel like a logical entry in the Star Trek franchise, but it is at least fun, which is more than I can say about DSC/PIC. The show deserves modest success but every single thing about the context in which it was released ensured that was never going to happen.
- Kurtzman-era Trek doesn't seem to have made much of a cultural impact; only Discovery appears to have performed impressively in viewership and yet it's left zero footprint. Therefore, there's not really a huge dedicated viewerbase who think "oh, shit, more Star Trek, gotta check it out!!" - a lot of TOS/Berman fans have been fully alienated by this point, and the new stuff doesn't appear to have garnered a sizeable fanbase of its own
- The marketing for this was abominable. The 90210 poster, the trailers making it look like an extension of Discovery. Why the fuck did none of the pre-release material show off the humour? Why was it all gloomy music and shots of people looking tense? WHY THE 90210 POSTER
- The decision to target it at Gen Z is bizarre, because there's no way they're gonna tune into this shit. I like the show but the "how do you do, fellow kids" aspect is oozing from every pore of it.
It's sad because this is, so far at least, the best thing since SNW's early first season. It still doesn't feel like a logical entry in the Star Trek franchise, but it is at least fun, which is more than I can say about DSC/PIC. The show deserves modest success but every single thing about the context in which it was released ensured that was never going to happen.
It's nice to read about fatalistic prognostication on Monday morning on Hollywood productions.
Not quite accurate as near the end of March 2023 Paramount+ announced that they had ordered the Starfleet Academy show and it began filming in late August 2024 with a 2nd season renewal in October 2024.
I got this info partly from Wikipedia and Trekmovie.
It reminds me of a study done years ago when an employer showed identical commercials to consumers, but some had black employees, some had white employees. Some white viewers ended up complaining about certain things completely unrelated to race - but only in the commercials with black employees. Like that the store looked "dirty" for example.
That's not to say that not liking something is akin to racism. Yet there's no such thing as neutral analysis. If you come into something biased against, all these little niggles will stand out to you and seem worse.
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