Paramount+ adds live Star Trek channel

[Sakonna]

I definitely have the two tracks as well. Sometimes I want to intentionally choose an episode to watch, but not always, sometimes I just want to watch what's on. The BBC America TNG marathons used to be the perfect TV background for me to work or clean or do laundry. I would often try to recreate that via streaming, and it wouldn't work -- I'd always pick episodes I was too interested in actually watching, and then I'd focus on them instead of getting anything done.

From the interview with the ViacomCBS exec I linked in the first post, I thought this was interesting:

We think that there is a power to tuning in live. On Pluto TV, even though we let people rewind to the beginning of the episode or the movie, when they come in halfway, there’s something about actually tuning into a live channel that is powerful for folks. They get drawn into content in the middle of a narrative, in the middle of an episode, in the middle of a movie. And we find that a very surprising number of people will watch the second half of a movie or TV episode rather than starting it from the beginning — even though they have that functionality right there at their fingertips. So we’re launching with this method. We do think that there could be opportunities for certain content to adopt a playlist approach, and we’re going to be testing things going forward. But right now we’re taking the Pluto approach, the success of which speaks for itself.

 

[Starbreaker]

I'm not into it, but my dad just watches whatever is on TV. The Walking Dead channel must be pretty popular on AMC+.

 

[Oddish]

Maybe at some point, they'll develop a PS5 app... I can't really properly binge watch on a smartphone.

 

[JoaquinSlowly]

They’ve started to vary the programming up significantly, with a Discovery marathon airing presently, and the schedule shows that episodes from Prodigy, Picard and Lower Decks will be joining TNG and Enterprise in the mix.

‪‪I love it.