News Netflix Sale Funds Star Trek: Discovery

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A new news article has been published at TrekToday:

According to CBS Corporation’s Les Moonves, Netflix has paid for the entire production budget of Star Trek: Discovery. Netflix will be airing...

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[Destructor]

Wow! So it's basically a Netflix show, but CBS gets to air it on their own shitty streaming service first because they own the rights to Star Trek? I hope they do as the Netflix show producers do for their own shows and stay out of the way of the creators.

 

[weissmr]

Thank you Netflix. I love you.

 

[Jax]

This basically means the global audience will matter for the first time more than the US audience. I hope this means a long running show.

 

[RAMA]

A new news article has been published at TrekToday:

According to CBS Corporation’s Les Moonves, Netflix has paid for the entire production budget of Star Trek: Discovery. Netflix will be airing...

Continue reading...

Old news. Reported months ago...

 

[Sisko_is_my_captain]

So...CBS gets the production costs for free, but they are going to charge us to see it on their streaming service?

 

[Mudd]

So...CBS gets the production costs for free, but they are going to charge us to see it on their streaming service?

Yes. That's called business-for-profit.

If they thought they could make more money by charging businesses for ad time they'd be doing that, instead.

 

[RAMA]

So...CBS gets the production costs for free, but they are going to charge us to see it on their streaming service?

What do you not understand about profit????

 

[Spider]

I won't be subscribing to CBS's streaming service, but will await it's arrival for American audiences on either Netflix or Amazon.

Of course this also depends on how I feel about the pilot episode which will be aired on CBS. If it's anything like the pilots for the rest of the Trek TV shows, I'll have no problems waiting on it. To me, TV Trek has produced nothing but garbage for the various pilots starting with and including TNG. The pilot for Discovery is going to have to completely blow me away before I'll subscribe to another streaming service. I've got HBO and Showtime through Amazon, and Netflix I don't mind subscribing to because of all it's content, but not CBS.

 

[galad2003]

I still think the best move in the long run is for CBS to forget their all access channel and just charge Netflix a fee to air their shows. But whatever, I am just a peon not in the biz. I guess they have to give this method a shot to try and maximize profits.

I predict that after the season airs on CBS all access CBS will air it on regular TV as well as Netflix (in the US)eventually.

 

[137th Gebirg]

I won't be subscribing to CBS's streaming service, but will await it's arrival for American audiences on either Netflix or Amazon.

Will this ever actually happen, though? At least, sooner than maybe 9 months to a year after initial airing?

 

[Noname Given]

So...CBS gets the production costs for free, but they are going to charge us to see it on their streaming service?

Yes - It's called Profit - and it's the reason most companies are in business and how they make a living/grow.

 

[Ralphis]

I think Netflix and CBS should come to some sort of an agreement similar to what Netflix did for the new seasons of the CW shows. Let all of Discovery's episodes air first in the USA on CBS All Access. And than after all 13 episodes have aired on CBS All Access, put all 13 episodes on Netflix.

Yes, I know, they wont do it that way. Yes, I know it was a different situation with the CW shows. But since Netflix is paying for the production costs, you know, I'm just saying...

I personally have no problem paying the $6 for CBS All Access to watch new Star Trek (SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY, LES MOONVES). But perception is everything, and I think if there was knowledge that Discovery would eventually end up on Netflix for American audiences, fans would have a better filling about the show. Of course, that would also eliminate the need for people to subscribe to CBS All Access - which is why I know they'll never do what I just suggested.

 

[Apparition B5]

I still think the best move in the long run is for CBS to forget their all access channel and just charge Netflix a fee to air their shows. But whatever, I am just a peon not in the biz. I guess they have to give this method a shot to try and maximize profits.

I predict that after the season airs on CBS all access CBS will air it on regular TV as well as Netflix (in the US)eventually.

I remember all of the complaining when Babylon 5 moved to TNT for its fifth season, and that some people swore that after it aired on TNT, the fifth season would eventually air on over-the-air channels like the first four seasons did. "What a rip off! I'm not subscribing to cable just to watch Babylon 5! Bah, the fifth season will air on [insert name of local The WB! station here] afterwards anyway."

Eighteen years later, and it never did.

 

[{ Emilia }]

Since I'm now part of the relevant audience I'll make sure to watch plenty of episodes so that even Americans can enjoy some more Star Trek.

 

[Ghislaine H. B. BRAEME]

A new news article has been published at TrekToday:

According to CBS Corporation’s Les Moonves, Netflix has paid for the entire production budget of Star Trek: Discovery. Netflix will be airing...

Continue reading...

I hope that Netflix won't regret its financial investment because, even if the shooting seems not to have begun yet, the process is already long and quite laborious!

 

[galad2003]

I remember all of the complaining when Babylon 5 moved to TNT for its fifth season, and that some people swore that after it aired on TNT, the fifth season would eventually air on over-the-air channels like the first four seasons did. "What a rip off! I'm not subscribing to cable just to watch Babylon 5! Bah, the fifth season will air on [insert name of local The WB! station here] afterwards anyway."

Eighteen years later, and it never did.

Wasn't that the final season that was horrible too? Not a good example

 

[Worf2DS9]

This basically means the global audience will matter for the first time more than the US audience. I hope this means a long running show.

Unless you happen to be living in Canada, which gets shafted in this "international" Netflix arrangement. As I understand it, DIS will not be available on Netflix here and instead be airing exclusively on Bell Media's premium cable channel SPACE, which I, and I'm sure a lot of other people, don't have. So it looks like, at least at the outset, I'll only get to watch the pilot when it airs on CBS.

 

[Amasov]

That gives me comfort in knowing that on the off chance CBS All Access were to utterly fail, the show could move to Netflix and costs would still be covered.

 

[jefferiestubes8]

Old news. Reported months ago...

Correct. The original link has that meeting Moonves was quoted at on Dec.6, 2016.
Look for more news from Moonves during the
Q4 2016 CBS Corporation Earnings Conference Call
on Wednesday, February 15, 2017 4:30 p.m. ET
just 12 days from now.
2 weeks into production of DSC.