Discovery Renewed for Season 5

[Noname Given]

People didn't believe the numbers I posted from FlixPatrol.

Star Trek Discovery is not No. 1 in anything, not even Top 5.
Star Trek Discovery is the ninth topmost consumption driver on Paramount Plus.
No Star Trek show is on the list of top acquisition drivers for Paramount Plus.
Pretty bad for one of the most expensive shows.

1883 is already the second most acquisition driver on P+, and they only started airing on December 19, 2021 (that is why they are not on the consumption driver list).

Um yeah, right. Discovery has a total of 49, (50 after tonight) available episodes - and probably 60 or so when that list was compiled. The rest are popular series with WAY more 'hours' available to watch. (that's probably why you only see Discovery on the list at all as all the other new Trek offerings have 10 episodes (read 'hours') available - so no, it's doubtful they'd get on the 'most cumulative hours watched' list. Oh, and 1883 is their most expensive show atm and it has 8 episodes (read: 'hours' , which is probably why it isn't in the 'most hours watched' list either at this point.

As for 'top acquisition drivers' It's either sports or current popular feature films for the most part.

 

[Lord Garth]

People didn't believe the numbers I posted from FlixPatrol.

Star Trek Discovery is not No. 1 in anything, not even Top 5.

Top 10 is good enough for me.

This is basically a "mine's bigger than yours!" comparison. I get it. But don't be so stiff about it.

 

[Cyrus]

ViacomCBS renaming itself to Paramount because they want to focus more on their streaming platform surely means the end is near for Kurtzman and his various Trek shows.

 

[Commander Troi]

This is basically a "mine's bigger than yours!" comparison. I get it. But don't be so stiff about it.

*SNORT!*

 

[Char Kais]

We might have to wait another 6-7 hours for Pacific Standard Time morning to get his regular daily morning termination announcement.

damn, I always mess up with the time zones.

I just received top-secret information from my trusted sources that he has, indeed, been fired (from his position and out of orbit), but the upcoming Star Trek shows will still credit him as the truth needs to be remain hidden at all costs.

mr Worf, fire all kurtzmen.

Have they fired Kurtzman today?

"Good night, Kutzman. Good work. Sleep well. I'll most likely fire you in the morning."

The joke is on you

I have never said that Alex Kurtzman was fired
I have never quoted someone or linked to someone who said that Alex Kurtzman was fired
I have never said that Discovery or any other show was canceled
I have never quoted someone or linked to someone who said Discovery or any other show was canceled
(I wrote about production delays.)

What I'm saying is that Discovery is not popular.
Viewership is declining.
In Canada, viewership dropped below 533k viewers in season 4. (Season 3 lowest was 719k viewers. S1E03 had 1,4 million viewers.)
Before Discovery was removed from Netflix it was in place 76 in Germany and place 109 in the UK in the TOP TV charts shows.
Social media interaction is abysmally low.

And:

 

[fireproof78]

What I'm saying is that Discovery is not popular.

And?

 

[gvn2fly]

And?

Some people seem to forget that DS9 and Enterprise got very low ratings. Enterprise was cancelled after all (I believe I once read it was the 150th rated show one of the seasons when it was on). With a few exceptions (TOS in syndication, TNG), Star Trek has really never been very popular.

Before Discovery was removed from Netflix it was in place 76 in Germany and place 109 in the UK in the TOP TV charts shows.

Why do you ignore the other stats, like it being in the top 5 on the worldwide itunes shows on some days and high in the UK? Today it's 7th worldwide and still 3rd in the UK, which hardly seems like an unpopular show would make the top 10 worldwide itunes charts. Also ignored all the days it was #1 on Paramount LOL. Also do the Canadian ratings take into account that the show is also streamed on Canada ? I don't think it does.

The joke is on you

I think the joke is on someone who spends so much time on a show they supposedly don't like LOL. Charts, screenshots, looking for obscure data.. Like...why? It's also sad when your own sources show that the show isn't doing as horribly as you say (which you conveniently ignore)

 

[Tuskin38]

The joke is on you

Please get a more productive hobby.

 

[Char Kais]

Why do you ignore the other stats, like it being in the top 5 on the worldwide itunes shows on some days and high in the UK? Today it's 7th worldwide and still 3rd in the UK, which hardly seems like an unpopular show would make the top 10 worldwide itunes charts.

iTunes? Seriously? This ain't the 2000s anymore.
The iTunes charts on FlixPatrol are for TV show downloads.

Discovery is in place No.7 in February because of DE and UK.

iTunes in DE had a market share of 6%, and that was in 2016. It shrunk since then.

I don't think it is that much different in the UK.

Star Trek Discovery, one of the most expensive shows ever made, is in place No.7 on a platform with less than 6% market share.

Also do the Canadian ratings take into account that the show is also streamed on Canada ?

No, they don't, but they are minuscule anyway.

There are two legal ways to watch Discovery in Canada, CTV Sci-Fi Channel and Crave (Streaming)
Between Picard S1 in early 2020 and Discovery S4 in late 2021, Star Trek lost 1.3m million viewers in Canada.
Crave's subscriber numbers increased by 340k between the end of 2019 and the end of 2021. Crave has a market share of 10%.
The gain of subscribers for Crave does not reflect the loss of viewers on CTV Sci-Fi.

 

[fireproof78]

With a few exceptions (TOS in syndication, TNG), Star Trek has really never been very popular.

Yup. I don't care one iota of Trek's popularity. I was never popular because I liked Star Trek. Star Trek being unpopular is my standard.

 

[jackoverfull]

The joke is on you

You mean they fired kurtzman for real this time?

What I'm saying is that Discovery is not popular.

Sure it isn’t. It will fail so badly it will never reach season two. They’ll burn the digital tapes of the pilot and pretend it was never filmed.

iTunes? Seriously? This ain't the 2000s anymore.
The iTunes charts on FlixPatrol are for TV show downloads.

Ah, I see. Ignore everything that doesn’t fit the narrative and move on.

 

[Turtletrekker]

People didn't believe care about the numbers I posted from FlixPatrol.

Fixed that for you.

 

[Tom_NX]

The joke is on you

I have never said that Alex Kurtzman was fired
I have never quoted someone or linked to someone who said that Alex Kurtzman was fired
I have never said that Discovery or any other show was canceled
I have never quoted someone or linked to someone who said Discovery or any other show was canceled
(I wrote about production delays.)

What I'm saying is that Discovery is not popular.
Viewership is declining.
In Canada, viewership dropped below 533k viewers in season 4. (Season 3 lowest was 719k viewers. S1E03 had 1,4 million viewers.)
Before Discovery was removed from Netflix it was in place 76 in Germany and place 109 in the UK in the TOP TV charts shows.
Social media interaction is abysmally low.

Why are you wasting so much time just proving that Discovery is unpopular and has bad ratings? And then you can't even do it. You chose exactly the small time window for your screenshots, where it's not further up in the top 10 .... nice try!

 

[Richard S. Ta]

The joke is on you

I get to enjoy new Star Trek and you don't. I'd say the joke is firmly on you.

 

[Char Kais]

Three episodes before the season 4 final, Star Trek Discovery disappeared from the Paramount Plus Top 10 TV shows chart.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Well, if a show is so unpopular that all you can post is how unpopular it is, go ahead and piss off and don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out.

 

[Campe]

The show’s been renewed for season five. It’s disappearing from the top ten won’t change that. My level of care as to whether or not it gets a season six is ridiculously low. If it gets renewed, more Disco. If it ends, then one of the other series being planned will take its place. Kurtzman Trek is here to say for the foreseeable future. This deep desire from some to see the current iteration fail is pointless. Even if everyone stops watching modern Trek, they’re not going to bring back the Trek of the Berman era. Trek will be done for quite some time. And the gap between ENT and Disco will seem like a blink.

You don’t have to like what they’re doing, but attempting to illicit fear in those who do? What a selfish, naive and frankly pathetic endeavor.

 

[fireproof78]

At this point I truly believe that no Trek is preferred by some corners of the fandom.

 

[SJGardner]

I thought that corner of the fandom already believes what we're getting currently is not Trek.

 

[Campe]

Right, but apparently it’s tarnishing the good Star Trek name. You know, the same one that gave us “The Alternative Factor”, “The Omega Glory”, “And the Children Shall Lead”, “Code of Honor”, “The Last Outpost”, “Shades of Gray”, “Sub Rosa”, “Move Along Home”, “Ferengi Love Songs”, “Profit and Lace”, “Threshold”, “Spirit Folk”, “A Night in Sickbay”, “These Are the Voyages”, The Final Frontier, Insurrection, Nemesis, and these are just the ones off the top of my head.