Former Netflix executive Cindy Holland has been hired as P+'s newest CEO.
Why would she put herself out of a job?
Future of Paramount+ among merger talks
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Former Netflix executive Cindy Holland has been hired as P+'s newest CEO.
Why would she put herself out of a job?
I’m of the belief that the Sci-Trek/Tachyon Pulse guy makes up almost everything he says. But Matt Belloni is on the opposite end of the spectrum; he has public connections galore, and an actual background in all of this.
Yet, again I must emphasize, Belloni made a broad-view analysis and rightly included Star Trek as one of multiple examples of potential cost-cutting. Star Trek, lower-rated Taylor Sheridan fare - I didn’t include the follow-up snippet, but he goes on to talk about Dick Wolf’s slate of network shows, as well. It’s all in jeopardy.
Meanwhile, Tachyon guy will talk about people like David Ellison as “wanting to unify the [Star Trek] timeline” and “eliminate retcons brought on by Alex Kurtzman in Star Trek: Discovery”. He’s always ‘hearing’ that sort of thing, and he’s always ‘been told’ about sweeping plans to bring everything in-house, to ‘hire Terry Matalas’, all sorts of things that no one with a serious bead on Hollywood is going to be hearing in such fan-casting granular detail.
Skydance doesn’t give a damn about The Burn. It’s a business entity, and it will - in Belloni’s own phrasing! - “slash and burn” to cut $2 billion in overhead over the coming months. If Star Trek goes, it won’t be because Tachyon-kun says they don’t like the Gorn on Star Trek: Strange New Worlds.
We need it for it to be Star Trek.
Perhaps something like Nazi Force would be more up your alley.
DEI goes by another name in Star Trek and has done so since the 1960s: Infinite Diversity in Infinite Combinations.
I'm a conservative and was raised in a conservative family and diversity was celebrated. It's bizarro world to me that diversity gets treated as bad by people.
This world has gone to Hell. We need more Trek not less Trek.
Doesn’t look like they’re moving on, they’re doubling down.
That PSA at the end of the first new episode was labeled “Pro-Trump PSA 1 of 50”. The deal they signed on was for 50 new episodes, which sounds like they’re gonna make 49 more “Pro-Trump” PSAs…
Thanks grandpa
I expect a lot of shows to get canceled.
CBS is doing well, although the decline will remain steady over time. BET, Comedy Central, and MTV are in worse shape, and each runs a high risk of being sold.
Paramount+ is doing fine, too. Frankly, the days of joking that “nobody has that” are long behind us. Even when it was still going by “CBS All Access”, subscriber numbers were rising somewhat steadily.
The plan is to update its technology across the board, likely via Oracle, and to quite possibly integrate it with Pluto on the front end. As for the programming itself, Cindy Holland has a TV slate in mind. What that will look like - and whether Star Trek will have a place in it for much longer - that, we don’t yet know.
SNW is already being cancelled after its shortened 5th season. So that leaves only one Star Trek show SFA, which is going to premiere in early 2026. Are you suggesting that they won’t actually show SNW seasons 4 & 5, despite them currently being in production, and won’t show SFA season 1, despite production being complete?
Belloni’s exact words on the podcast were, “these Star Trek shows are in jeopardy.” He said it as part of a larger statement regarding Sheridan’s lower-rated fare, Dick Wolf’s present slate of network shows, and much more.
I don’t think Belloni himself was thinking in specifics. It was a few words in an otherwise-unrelated sentence. I doubt he’s a fan or anything - he’s just an analyst and reporter who frequently hears stuff before the main trades report on it. (And in this case, it was clearly spoken as supposition, not some harbinger of certainty.)
The words match what Casas9425 has stated.
Some streamers have already removed content for tax purposes. Think the Willow show on Disney+.
Disney Gets Big Write-Off After Pulling Its Streaming Shows
And it sounds like more shows and movies will be getting culled at some point during the rest of 2023.
gizmodo.com
Look at the mess we got with HBO/MAX with Discovery. Who knows what's going to happen.
HBO Max Is Removing Even More Shows, But They'll Have a Streaming Future... Somewhere
Westworld is still the most high-profile title slated for removal and redistribution, but it won't be alone.
gizmodo.com
This is why I've been moving back to physical media over the last couple of years. I recently picked up both Orphan Black and the Magicians to watch on Blu-ray. Buying the shows you like might be your best bet if stuff gets pulled.
Sheridan was besties with now-former MTV/Showtime CEO Chris McCarthy.
Sheridan may well decide to follow McCarthy out the door.
The fan-casting of SOME fans, not all (certainly not Yours Truly).
I’d say keep an eye on Keith Cox. He’s worked closely with Taylor Sheridan for eight years, and may stay on to work with him directly. (Eighth paragraph. Supposition, but it’s been repeated a few times elsewhere.)
And trust me, I know plenty of people aren’t interested in more from Matalas. It’s an internet tug-of-war, these days, between the all-for-its and the heck-nos! (Personally, I just want more from Seven and that era; I don’t care whether Matalas’ name is anywhere near it.) I just meant that anybody who speaks to such fan-like fervor is, as a rule, unlikely to be reporting on actual behind-the-scenes discourse between television execs.
I don't mind him writing and/or producing.
Showrunner? No.
He's SO infatuated with 80's/90's Trek that he risks resurrecting all that was negative about it (the erasure of the LGBTQ+ community, reducing women to being helpmates for the guys, etc.).
Picard Season 3 is so weird, because the season mostly succeeds at a lot of things the earlier seasons of PIC (and DIS) failed at - most notably being well-paced. It's not overly reliant upon a string of mystery boxes to build up intrigue, and steadily actually reveals/pays off things as it goes along. When it actually dives into theme, it does a decent job, and if you read a plot summary of each episode, it sounds great.
That said, the actual scripts are pretty bad. Full of really clunky, expository dialogue. Which is a shame, because for a lot of it, really all you'd need to do is hand it off to someone to revise, and the outcomes would have been much, much better.
I think Season 3 is just as bad with the mystery box, the red door and the mysterious face that Vadic works for. The reveals are not that good.
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