Trek Central reporting that Star Trek Prodigy has been cancelled and will be removed from Paramount+ in coming days.
Trek Central reporting that Star Trek Prodigy has been cancelled and will be removed from Paramount+ in coming days.
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The removal from the service thing is the most absurd part of these announcements, that was the benefit of VOD, that we could access what we wanted.
Shows have gotten cancelled when they are popular and on a cliff-hanger throughout the last 60 years, but the removal thing is new and a massive decline from the accessibility improvements that were made over the last 15 years.
Fortunately for me, my personal server doesn't have this issue.
It also makes it impossible for a show to get later word of mouth bumps. Nobody sees it, new users don't even know it exists, and so it has no metrics and no future whatsoever.
That's how Star Trek succeeded after The Original Series, but now there is no physical media comparable to streaming.
You would think that the content would still be licensed by another streamer like Tubi etc, but then they have to factor their property only being available on a competitor.
It's never been a better time to selfhost.
Don't streaming platforms remove canceled shows so they don't have to pay residuals to actors (or whoever is contractually getting them)? I've understood that streaming residuals are pretty shit to begin with
Yep. It's corporate greed, plain and simple, and it's disgusting.
Sometimes. Other times it's a tax write-off apparently.
Or – probably – a tax write-off and a way to dodge residuals