A new news article has been published at TrekToday: Pinewood Toronto Studios, the home of Star Trek: Discovery, has plans to double in size. Part of the reason is that Discovery... Continue reading...
Nice, As I said on the general board...there's probably no clearer measure of confidence and success in any business venture than continued / enhanced investment. Good news for Discovery and its fans!!!
You guys do realize that Pinewood Toronto Studios is just Discovery's studio landlord and not anything with a direct connection to the production?
You do realize they are expanding due, in part, to DSC taking up so much space. They are confident enough that DSC is there for the foreseeable future so expansion was in order. If DSC was going to be cancelled after season 2 they may well not have needed to grow at this point. So, at least tangentially, there is definitely a connection and a vote of confidence in the show.
You do realize that if every time a measurable, objective positive news element about DSC is posted you attempt to discredit it with inane, made-up, non-truth...people will take you less seriously on the topic than they already do now, correct?
I just hope they will have a helipad or something for Senator Jones. He's going to be very busy going back and forth from Toronto to DC. He should probably just do his senatorial duties in costume to save time.
The investment is from Toronto Studios. Not CBS. They just need more place because the Discovery sets take up a lot of space, long-term (e.g. more than a year) All that it means is that Toronto is still a viable filming place (because of taxes and stuff) and that they won't start scrapping the standing sets of Discovery next month. This is good news for Toronto's economy, but meaningless for CBS - we already know DIS will get a second season. We will see if if they (the actual producers of DIS) will "enhance" investment as soon as we know about the budget of season 2, or what Netflix is willing to pay for that (will it be more/less than S1?).
I didn't say CBS. Fact is, the studios aren't going to invest considerable capital in expansion of facilities if they believe DSC will be done after next season. And you don't make assumptions there. You have business meetings with CBS and say "hey, what are the chances of this show being around for the long haul, because we don't want to sink a whole lot of cheese into expanding if you dipsticks are going to fuck off after next year" So, yes, it's a positive sign in CBS and the studio's confidence in the projected longevity of the series. Simple stuff...not easily dismissed, no matter how hard you try.
The studios couldn't give a fuck if a specific property on their lot is more successfull or less. What they care is if they stay and pay the rent or move. DIS will stay for at least another year, probably even two, season 2 is already announced. But Toronto still has it's tax incentives, so other productions are going to film there as well - which is why they need new studio space. There is no new information regarding DIS in any of this - except for that they aren't going to scrap the sets this month (which was never a possibility in the first place anyway). ENT's fourth season had a massively slashed budget - but they still used the same standing sets from the three seasons before it. DIS can have a slashed budget as well - or an improved one - they aren't going to scrap their sets either way. If you hear something about CBS buying new set space - THAT would be a significant sign of confidence! That they are willing to pay more money for new sets, additionally to the already standing ones. That would show actual confidence and investment in DIS' success. But the studio - aka the landlord - buying new space for competing productions? Yeah, no. Implying anything about DIS here, positive or negative, is wishfull thinking at best.
If you want to know the what and why as to why they need the new space and what it is for don't bother reading the trektoday piece. Instead read the Hollywood reporter article linked in the trektoday piece.
Exactly. It should be noted that Pinewood Studios is a big deal already, with lots of productions using the facilities. The fact that they need an expansion would have been done with or without Discovery. Just happens that Discovery is using up a lot of their space and making them expand quicker because more productions would like to use them.
Definitely good news for Ontario in general and Toronto in particular. With positive implications re: DSC in my mind.
Although, with the Ship of the Dead destroyed, that should free up some space. Unless they're still using that set for other purposes.
Duj lommey was, I suspect, scripted as a one-off relic from centuries earlier in Klingon history. We won't - shouldn't - be seeing a ship of the exact same design style again.
Just a guess, but since Netflix agreed to invest more into Canadian productions, the expansion could be partly intended to accommodate this.
Well, that much is true. They have invested a lot in Canadian productions lately. The Christmas Inheritance for instance (Netflix Original) was filmed and produced locally, in my hometown, and by a locally run production studio. As for Pinewood though, I think that's just a side-effect of a successful studio seeing increased business and feeling the need to expand.