Star Trek: Prodigy’ Banner Flown Over Netflix Offices, Other Streamers in Effort to Save Show (www.hollywoodreporter.com)
from GoodAaron@startrek.website to startrek@startrek.website on 25 Aug 2023 22:11
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ValueSubtracted@startrek.website on 25 Aug 2023 22:19 next collapse

User flair is unfortunately not a thing on Lemmy, but this is as good a time as any to confirm that we have independently verified that OP is Aaron J. Waltke, writer/producer of Star Trek: Prodigy.

HWK_290@lemmy.world on 25 Aug 2023 23:26 collapse

Going to chime in then and say: THANK YOU!!

Prodigy is an amazing show. I hope it finds a home soon. I just recommended it to my 80 year old father. My wife and I just about died with happiness rewatching season 1 recently. All around, the best Trek in years

I cannot wait for season 2, let’s make it so!

GoodAaron@startrek.website on 25 Aug 2023 23:55 collapse

On behalf of the team — Thank you!

HWK_290@lemmy.world on 26 Aug 2023 00:01 next collapse

LLAP you have our full support

Uranium3006@kbin.social on 26 Aug 2023 02:13 collapse

I've seen a couple of episodes and I like it so far. it's kinda douchey of them to take it off of streaming like that.

StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website on 25 Aug 2023 22:32 next collapse

Great to see the event getting amplification in major industry media.

HappyMeatbag@beehaw.org on 26 Aug 2023 00:21 next collapse

CBS Studios has remained committed to finding a new distributor for the show and is finishing postproduction work on the new episodes.

This is good to hear. Their optimism is encouraging.

I wish the first season was still streaming somewhere.

StillPaisleyCat@startrek.website on 26 Aug 2023 00:33 collapse

I’m still boggled that they pulled it to write it off.

GreenMario@lemm.ee on 26 Aug 2023 01:09 next collapse

Don’t get it. I thought Paramount owned Star Trek why isn’t it on P+?

I get Nickelodeon was involved.

ValueSubtracted@startrek.website on 26 Aug 2023 01:16 collapse

Paramount+, the streamer, doesn’t want it on their platform, for whatever reason.

CBS Studios, the production house, wants to sell it to a different platform.

They’re both subsidiaries of Paramount Global, but they have different priorities.

GreenMario@lemm.ee on 26 Aug 2023 02:51 next collapse

That is strange but thanks for the explanation.

buckykat@hexbear.net on 26 Aug 2023 03:47 next collapse

for whatever reason.

stockfuckery

Mirshe@lemmy.world on 28 Aug 2023 13:01 collapse

Paramount wants it off everything and out of production so they can practice the dark art of tax writeoffs with its sacrifice. If they aren’t selling it or streaming it anywhere, they can claim it as a business loss.

ValueSubtracted@startrek.website on 28 Aug 2023 13:04 collapse

Again, CBS Studios is a subsidiary of Paramount, and they don’t want it off the air and are actively shopping it around, so it’s not as simple as you say.

startrekexplained@startrek.website on 26 Aug 2023 06:18 next collapse

I just began watching Prodigy, and thank you for making such a charming addition to the TrekVerse Aaron Waltke

CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world on 26 Aug 2023 13:28 collapse

Loved this show and my kids did too. Ripping it off the platform is a bad precedent, and one I hope Paramount comes to regret.