CBS All Access and existing episodes

[tribbleorlfl]

Quick question, has it been confirmed if CBSAA will be pulling older episodes of DSC off their service as the season goes along. I believe only the most recent 5 or 6 episodes of the current season of Big Bang Theory have been on at any one time and it was rumored that DSC would be following the same path to encourage all of the new Subscribers to stay subscribed for the whole season.

While I have no problems paying for Trek, this show is the only thing on CBSAA I'm interested in. I really don't have a desire to subscribe when DSC isn't on. To that end, my plan was to subscribe for a month at the mid-season break and catch up on the first half episodes, and do the same for the second half of the season after the finale.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Using their other current CBSAA-only series The Good Fight, as a guide, all episodes of DSC will remain.

The whole season of The Good Fight is available to watch.

 

[DigificWriter]

I don't know what CBS' exact policy is, but I wouldn't count on being able to "binge" DSC if I were you unless you signed up now while it's a guarantee that the backlogged episodes are available (which they are).

 

[EnderAKH]

Quick question, has it been confirmed if CBSAA will be pulling older episodes of DSC off their service as the season goes along. I believe only the most recent 5 or 6 episodes of the current season of Big Bang Theory have been on at any one time and it was rumored that DSC would be following the same path to encourage all of the new Subscribers to stay subscribed for the whole season.

The Big Bang Theory is produced by Warner Brothers, and thus is under a different agreement than Discovery which is produced in house.

 

[Locutus of Bored]

I don't know about them pulling older episodes from All-Access after they've aired, but there will be a hiatus between November 12th (after the first nine episodes air) and January, 2018 when the remaining six episodes of the season will air.

 

[DigificWriter]

The third season finale of Zoo was available via CBS All Access the day after it aired, but is now currently available only through Netflix, which is why I wouldn't personally risk waiting until DSC goes on hiatus to sign up for the service and then try to "binge" the entire season up to that point.

 

[Krandor]

Using their other current CBSAA-only series The Good Fight, as a guide, all episodes of DSC will remain.

The whole season of The Good Fight is available to watch.

and big brother over the top which was CBSAA only as well.

I don't expect to see them leave CBSAA

 

[KirkusOveractus]

and big brother over the top which was CBSAA only as well.

I don't expect to see them leave CBSAA

I agree. If its CBSAA only, I really think those will stay on there even when the series goes on hiatus.

 

[Krandor]

I agree. If its CBSAA only, I really think those will stay on there even when the series goes on hiatus.

The back catalog is different due to different agreements already in place.

Currently airing shows they have to be careful about as well because they don't want to upset their advertisers.

CBSAA shows are pretty much theirs to do with as they want and since they want to bring people to CBSAA best to keep them on. They want people to go to family gatherings for christmas and hear that this new star trek show is good and they should subscribe and go on and watch the first half of the season before the new episodes start.

 

[DigificWriter]

^ Given that CBS is allowing DSC to be released on Netflix everywhere but the US, I don't think we can assume that different rules are going to apply to it simply because it's a CBSAA-exclusive in the US.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

^ Given that CBS is allowing DSC to be released on Netflix everywhere but the US, I don't think we can assume that different rules are going to apply to it simply because it's a CBSAA-exclusive in the US.

Are the other CBSAA-only series now being carried on Netflix outside of the US?

 

[DigificWriter]

Are the other CBSAA-only series now being carried on Netflix outside of the US?

Internationally, The Good Fight is being broadcast on television, and Big Brother Over the Top is available only on CBS All Access and therefore can't be accessed internationally until CBS makes that service available outside the US.

 

[KirkusOveractus]

Internationally, The Good Fight is being broadcast on television, and Big Brother Over the Top is available only on CBS All Access and therefore can't be accessed internationally until CBS makes that service available outside the US.

OK. I'm just going on past CBSAA only series and what they're doing with those. It seems to be a pattern that CBSAA keeps complete seasons available on there even on hiatus for their current CBSAA exclusives.

 

[Krandor]

OK. I'm just going on past CBSAA only series and what they're doing with those. It seems to be a pattern that CBSAA keeps complete seasons available on there even on hiatus for their current CBSAA exclusives.

Right now that is really all we have to go off of.

I don't think netflix outside the US really matters at all for this reason. In the US, Netflix is reaching a point of saturation. Their growth market for subscribers is overseas. They are using DSC overseas as a way to grow in markets where they have more good for subscriber growth.

 

[DigificWriter]

I'm not sure there's a pattern here given that DSC is being handled differently internationally than The Good Fight and Big Brother Over the Top (the latter of which isn't even available internationally).

 

[Krandor]

I'm not sure there's a pattern here given that DSC is being handled differently internationally than The Good Fight and Big Brother Over the Top (the latter of which isn't even available internationally).

It is all we have to go off of and I don't see how it being available overseas changes what they do in the US market. I don't see why they would do anything different in the US then they have in the US for other series.

 

[DigificWriter]

Because international and other licensing agreements have an effect on what CBS has on All Access and what they don't for most of the service's content, and there's no sense of symmetry in terms of how their other CBSAA-exclusives are distributed outside of the US.

 

[Krandor]

Because international and other licensing agreements have an effect on what CBS has on All Access and what they don't for most of the service's content, and there's no sense of symmetry in terms of how their other CBSAA-exclusives are distributed outside of the US.

Right but how they distribute it in UK shouldn't affect how they distribute it in the US. CBSAA has full rights in the US just like they do for their other shows so I don't see any reason they would treat it differently here.

However, if people want to keep thinking it will be on netflix in a month or go, go right ahead.

 

[Blooded]

People need to get it out of their heads that this show is heading to Netflix US any time soon. It's a flagship show for an American OTT service - CBS aren't going to just give that up, and their subscribers with it. Whilst the great CBSAA experiment is taking place, I'd be very surprised if they let any of their CBSAA-exclusive shows go to other streaming services in the US. That's not how you successfully build a new platform, nor is the idea that they'll pull down episodes whilst the show is on hiatus. Why on Earth would CBSAA invite that kind of subscriber churn for no reason?

 

[AlphaMan]

I hate that I feel this way, but if I'm being honest, I can't wait for CBSAA to crash & burn. I hope it doesn't take Discovery along with it.

If CBSAA is successful, then Fox & NBC won't be far behind with subscription streaming services of their own. I hear that ABC, which is a subsidiary of Disney has one in the works to compete with Netflix. Think about that... Disney, which owns Star Wars & Marvel is going to pull all of their content from Netflix and all the pay cable channels possibly and charge you a fee to see any of it once it leaves theaters. Then who's next? individual movie studios? That would suck.