I thought the merger wasn't supposed to take place until later this year?
The combined network is supposed to be called "Paramount+ Showtime."
Disco Ending In 2024
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I thought the merger wasn't supposed to take place until later this year?
The combined network is supposed to be called "Paramount+ Showtime."
Perhaps they're referring instead to the company's penchant for reporting the combined subscriber numbers across platforms.
That's what they're doing, yeah. Showtime adds something like 22 million, then there's PlutoTV, Noggin and BET+. All told it's something like 77 million.
Oh, wow. I hadn't been keeping up recently - combining the whole lot really does sound a hell of a lot 'sexier' to investors, yeahhh.
I can play this up to something even more ridiculous. Doing my best We've Got This Covered impression: "The seventh Star Trek series, following TOS, TAS, TNG, DS9, VOY, and ENT, spanned 10 calendar years from initial conception to final airing, lasting from 2015 to 2024, and told a story that spanned 955 years of Star Trek Canon from 2236 when Michael Burnham was a 10-year-old child and foster-sister of Spock to 3190 where she's Captain of the USS Discovery. All of Star Trek, except for Enterprise and James T. Kirk's legendary birth, takes place in-between periods of Discovery."
Okay, I'll stop now.
You never pull the curtain for an audience eager for more.
Johnathan Frakes comment is akin to Patrick Stewart saying: "I'm open to another TNG feature film..."
^^^
Which he has.
With the suits who control the money making/watching the show (IE The Ready Room) you as cast member and director for the series being promoted you never say: "Oh no...this is it."; UNLESS those same suits tell you to beforehand.
Citing Midnights Edge is adorable. What’s Rudi and Sydney Powell think about it?
And because the first season's costs were essentially paid for through the Netflix deal. Even the additional two episodes they tagged on last minute.
If they are ending Discovery to save costs, would a spinoff featuring Discovery characters really be that logical?
My take on this is that Discovery was indeed Cancelled by Paramount. This was after Season 5 was not planned as the final season.
This delay to 2024 is to re-tool Season 5 so it functions as the final season for Burnham and her backup dancers. We'll find out soon if reshoots are happening.
Jeri (barring tragedy) will likely be a young-ish and dapper looking 60 year old like Michelle Yeoh is (and her post-VOY career on TV has been solid like Kate Mulgrew's), so don't rule her out completely, she'll work in solid supporting/guest roles on big shows like Kate Mulgrew and Jonathan Banks, or she could unexpectedly explode as a late middle aged character actor ala Christoph Waltz or Helen Mirren (either way she'll get a star on broadway).
ST: Discovery had a rock solid 5 season run, far longer than most streaming originals, if it truly failed it'd never have spawned SNW, and was something of a creative test bed (unfortunately its first season felt awkward like TNG's S1).
Yeoh has gone from Trek to the stratosphere (Golden Globe and SAG Award winner, Oscar nominee).
Jeri and Michelle today are not really facing the kind of sexism and ageism (plus prejudice in Yeoh's case) that was still lingering on in the 1990s and early 2000s.
Disco marked Trek coming back to the airwaves after being dormant for twelve years.
Also DSCO's first two seasons had a lot of bikering and fights in its writer's room convergently similar to what we had amongst very early TNG script writers (also created by veteran Trek producers who were losing their marbles by that point).
Yeoh hasn't gone from Trek to the stratosphere. She was up there long before Trek. BAFTA nominated for Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon as far back as 2001. Decorated as a knight, then a knight commander, then a knight grand commander in Malaysia. She was and is still a major coup for Star Trek, but she had a colourful and highly successful career before she captained the Shenzhou.
Everything, Everywhere, All At Once certainly didn't hurt her profile recently and her acclaim is very well deserved regarding that film. Great movie.
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I haven't seen Everything, Everywhere, All At Once yet, but I plan to at some point soon.
I hate to presume, but from what little I know of you, I think you'd enjoy it.
Kill Bill (both volumes) and Enter the Dragon are among my favorite movies. Top 20 if not Top 10. I don't know if it's anything like those, but I'm looking forward to it. Loved the Disco MU episodes and Georgiou saving L'Rell in "Point of Light". Totally bad-ass, including with the guitar-riff. And I loved Michelle Yeoh in Tomorrow Never Dies: a criminally underrated James Bond movie, IMO.
It's rare that this can be said, but it's not really similar to anything. There are whole scenes of two motionless rocks talking to each other through captions. It's a mad film.
Mad I say. Mad.
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