If the deal gets approved at each stage, it could close mid-2025 according to Deadline.Well, Discovery is part of my background as a fan.
But, seriously though, has this thing finally been totally finalized yet?
VARIETY: Paramount-Skydance merger collapsed in the final moments, and will lead to layoffs and austerity measures
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Wow. I didn't realize there'd be so many hoops to go through. Yet it also doesn't surprise me. Sounds very "real world" where everything moves molasses slow. It does help me to put in order when I can start to anticipate movement on anything beyond SFA happening.
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September IIRC.Well, Discovery is part of my background as a fan.
But, seriously though, has this thing finally been totally finalized yet?
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Sounds pretty devastating as far as future Trek goes, I suspect. $2 Billion in cuts to Paramounts linear media operations.
Sounds pretty devastating as far as future Trek goes, I suspect. $2 Billion in cuts to Paramounts linear media operations.
I like that better. Provided it's September of 2024!
I'm high, and I had this elaborate explanation about how this shit works. Then I realized, I don't know a damned thing about it.
Cool. Glad they fingered it out in the end.
Now what does that mean?
Honestly.. P+ is going to go kaput. and go back to selling its stuff to other peoples streamers without the overhead and BS of there own streamer. The time of each studio having there own thing is as dead as the dodo. Time to move on.
I wouldn't mind Netflix as the home of it.
Now what does that mean?
Honestly.. P+ is going to go kaput. and go back to selling its stuff to other peoples streamers without the overhead and BS of there own streamer. The time of each studio having there own thing is as dead as the dodo. Time to move on.
I wouldn't mind Netflix as the home of it.
Well, they were looking at austerity measures any way. Not exactly a surprise.
Ah, then there's hope!
Honestly at this point, I'm just hoping what's been shot (Section 31, SNW S3 and Starfleet Academy S1) don't get the dreaded tax write off burial that Prodigy nearly got.
Q3, 2025
Skydance Chief David Ellison Says Paramount Must “Not Be Paralyzed” During Long Run-Up To Merger Close; Asset Sales Can Continue In Interim
Skydance CEO David Ellison said Paramount Global must "not be paralyzed" during the runup to closing its merger with Skydance.
deadline.com
I'm not sure I want to know.
That's not what early reports indicate Skydance has in mind here. A merger, probably, yes. A shutdown of Paramount+ does not appear imminent.
Yup. We’ll see how it all pans out, but for a couple of years post-merger, at least, I figure Paramount+ is probably safe enough.
Something odd happened at SkyShowTime, basically the Paramount owned Streaming service in the Netherlands.
Untill a few weeks ago (last time I checked), we had things like Voyager, Enterprise, DS9, TOS...
Now it's just all the movies and TNG, with Discovery and SNW and Prodigy Season one.
We used to have all Transformers movies, now it's only Rise Of The Beasts.
Something is happening.
Untill a few weeks ago (last time I checked), we had things like Voyager, Enterprise, DS9, TOS...
Now it's just all the movies and TNG, with Discovery and SNW and Prodigy Season one.
We used to have all Transformers movies, now it's only Rise Of The Beasts.
Something is happening.
It's licensing. In the US, the first ten Trek movies were pulled from Paramount+ and licensed out to (HBO) Max for awhile. If a particular show or movie isn't on your streaming service anymore, it may be licensed somewhere else or may even just be the result of its particular license having expired.
Very true. However, SkyShowtime has been presenting itself as the home for Star Trek and other franchises for a while. Leading to believe more steady contracts were in place.
It was the same situation with Paramount+ in the US as "the official home for Star Trek," and yet there's times when not all of the movies are available. And of course, Star Trek: Prodigy isn't available there anymore as it's now exclusive to Netflix.
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