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Paramount+ cancels more shows (self.entertainment)
submitted 1 year ago by FelipeFelop to c/entertainment
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Ahead of the merger with Showtime Paramount+ has cancelled more shows. The most surprising of which is Star Trek:Prodigy

The animated coproduction with Nickelodeon was very well received and had been renewed for a second season. The second season is in post production and will be sold to another streamer/broadcaster.

My view is that cancelling already renewed content is a sure fire way to lose subscribers.

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[–] Schedar 10 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’m gutted, really enjoyed prodigy and was looking forward to watching it with little boy (once he was old enough)

Fingers crossed they find a buyer and we can at least get to see the second series

[–] zombiepete 4 points 1 year ago

There’s always a chance another service will pick it up if Paramount+ really goes away I suppose.

[–] Lowbird 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

OP said season 2 is in post-production and it'll get sold to another streaming service probably. It's not dead yet, I think. Especially not with Across the Spiderverse raking in cash and making animation (hopefully) look more tempting to corporates.

[–] FelipeFelop 2 points 1 year ago

I think you’re right, Amazon has seemingly done well with Picard and Lower Decks (outside of the US) so it’s possible that they will want to add another Star Trek.

Paramount’s big mistake is having poor availability (taking too long to roll out Paramount+ and then having staggered release dates for shows in different areas) and complicated distribution arrangements that means they make less money.

In essence they treated streaming like DVD/Blu-Ray distribution which negates the benefits of streaming to the consumer.

[–] TheTrueLinuxDev 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it was unusually high quality show, a lot of likeable characters and the pacing was solid. Just weird that they go, "Oh yeah, let gut all of the things that make us viable to subscribers."