Then why are they partnering with Nexflix outside of N. America?
Would you prefer if this new Star Trek show was on a different streaming site?
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Then why are they partnering with Nexflix outside of N. America?
You spelt "winners" wrong.
Good thing that there are people like me who like CBS shows
Individually creating new legal relationships with hundreds, maybe thousands of networks, and then paying accountants to keep track of it, is time and money.
The alternative is that Netflix writes one huge cheque, at the beginning of every new business year.
What guy said. Basically, no ready infrastructure. If they could bypass Netflix internationally, they would.
Each of the major studios' syndication divisions, operates an international arm, that can-and already has been, selling to networks, stations and cable systems anywhere and everywhere. For decades. Selling to Netflix outside of N America, was because Netflix offered a fat enough check, and the knowledge that the show would still be desired by buyers and could be sold for just as much money in the "second run", the period that begins after the initial broadcast is done with.
Six months on Netflix, then six months on home video, then available for licensing to basic cable or local tv stations, the same as any other tv show has been handled...the Trek gravy train rolls on.
Six months on Netflix, then six months on home video, then available for licensing to basic cable or local tv stations, the same as any other tv show has been handled...the Trek gravy train rolls on.
Different arms of the company are competition with one another for bonuses and to avoid punitive dismissals.
The streaming arm of CBS (controlled by a vice president) is not the syndication arm (controlled by a different vice president).
If the streaming arm has to use and farm out it's responsibilities to the syndication arm, until the streaming arm is effectively doing no work at all, what actual point is there to there being a streaming arm to CBS? People will get fired and the division will be absorbed by other elements of CBS who produce noticeable labour and work-product to justify their huge cheques.
(Above is wild speculation based on looking at corporate greed for 30 years. Some companies base their interactive internal policies on synergy, but really? When does that ever end well?)
More so, if this so called streaming arm who controls CBS All Access and creates original material for CBS All Access is only allowed to stream it's original material because of a division of labour in the corporate structure, then other than taking CBS all Access Global, which would have been a huge risk, the only thing out there bigger than Netflix is their foreign language counterparts catering to billions of Chinese, Indians and Russians, or Pornhub.
CBS would have loved that.
"We have an exclusive global deal to let Pornhub distribute Star Trek... But we have to refilm a lot of the first season, adding sex scenes and excessive shirtlessness for mostly the male cast."
The streaming arm of CBS (controlled by a vice president) is not the syndication arm (controlled by a different vice president).
If the streaming arm has to use and farm out it's responsibilities to the syndication arm, until the streaming arm is effectively doing no work at all, what actual point is there to there being a streaming arm to CBS? People will get fired and the division will be absorbed by other elements of CBS who produce noticeable labour and work-product to justify their huge cheques.
(Above is wild speculation based on looking at corporate greed for 30 years. Some companies base their interactive internal policies on synergy, but really? When does that ever end well?)
More so, if this so called streaming arm who controls CBS All Access and creates original material for CBS All Access is only allowed to stream it's original material because of a division of labour in the corporate structure, then other than taking CBS all Access Global, which would have been a huge risk, the only thing out there bigger than Netflix is their foreign language counterparts catering to billions of Chinese, Indians and Russians, or Pornhub.
CBS would have loved that.
"We have an exclusive global deal to let Pornhub distribute Star Trek... But we have to refilm a lot of the first season, adding sex scenes and excessive shirtlessness for mostly the male cast."
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Well, forgive the fuck out of me for expecting to receive services for payment rendered in a slightly-more-than-ass-suck quality manner that many subscribers seem to be experiencing. Must be that pesky white privilege thing in me again. How dare I, right?
"Thats not canon!"
"Did someone say canon?!" Trousers off.
Alright, I'm in. Who do I complain to about subscription charges?
You're getting hung up on this new fangled "streaming service" labeling. Relax and be calm John Spartan.
Everything that has happened before, will happen again. The production and distribution funnel behind the new show is not wildly dissimilar from how things have always worked, the only difference is tne new digital method of delivery....
CBS All Access is merely the "network" if you will. CBS-The Studio will make the show for their corporate sibling. The sale of the program is handled by the studio's distribution division, not the "network" that airs/streams it.
Now, you can now go to The Taco Bell, and chill while munching on a triple double crunchwrap.
But, but... There are no Taco Bell in New Zealand. 
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Barbarians! How do you live??? Next thing you'll tell me you don't have Starbucks! 
Dirk and Katee, just like every one else.
I thought Netflix did make deal with Trek. Aldo, I thought it was going to air on CBS? Is this wrong?
CBS owns Star Trek and is making the new series.
In Canada and the US, Star Trek will air on CBS All Access, which is a streaming service that costs 6 dollars a month.
Globally, everywhere else except Canada and the US, Star Trek will air on Netflix.
In Canada and the US, Star Trek will air on CBS All Access, which is a streaming service that costs 6 dollars a month.
Globally, everywhere else except Canada and the US, Star Trek will air on Netflix.
In the US, the show will be exclusively shown on CBS All Access. In Canada, cable network Space will have it. Netflix bought rights to show it outside of the US and Canada across their 188 country footprint.
http://www.bellmedia.ca/pr/press/ne...e-long-and-prosper-in-canada-with-bell-media/
Welcome to the rest of the world in the 90s. We got Emissary on subscription tv (actually it was pre-scramble on sky one, just, but most with sky had subscription, and by the end of the season all channels were scrambled) in August 93, not January.
But that was nothing. "Face of the Enemy", from TNG Season 6, was broadcast Dec 93 in the states. In the UK it was October 1995 - nearly 2 years late. All Good Things came out in June 1996 (Generations by comparison was released in the UK in February 1995).
I see what you did there...
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