Paramount's Star Trek Struggle Is a Mess of Its Own Making
gizmodo.com
After years of broad access, Paramount wanted its own platform to be the home of all Star Trek. Now, it's beginning to face the consequences of that endeavor.

I09 sees the wheels coming off the Paramount+ strategic model with the cancelation of Prodigy.

Interesting piece with some new angles…

This time last year, the series was the bold vanguard of an attempt to bring the venerable sci-fi franchise to new audiences in a way Star Trek hadn’t attempted in years, and the latest in what was now a whole fleet of Star Trek shows on the platform. In a swift, single move—not just the takeback of a second season renewal, but the complete erasure of the series from its platform—the studio’s stratospheric ascent seems to have come crashing down all around it.

  • @dekekun
    5•1 year ago

    This is only true for the die-hards though yeah? The casual fans (which lets be real, are the majority of most shows’ viewership) just won’t bother. There is more than enough content out there to compete with, if you make it hard, people will just take the attention elsewhere.

    • @T156
      2•1 year ago

      And that’s probably not helping viewership either. Because they have some weird scheduling that makes it so that some areas get the show later than others, with some regions only getting a series some months after it has aired, people aren’t going to watch it, and will just watch something else that is available.