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11-04-2015, 02:40 PM | #17 |
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**** CBS. This isn't 1999. I'm not buying a subscription to your new service just to watch Star Trek sight unseen. You are not the NFL. Even the NFL ran into wall trying to worm their way into the basic channels. This reeks of arrogance and dipshittery.
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11-04-2015, 02:46 PM | #18 |
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CBS, Paramount and Les Moonves don't get it.
They think that the name "Star Trek" has so much value that people will drop their pants and bend over for $5.99 a month when Into Darkness sucked, Enterprise wasn't good until the final season and they've had far, far more misses than hits with the franchise. They need someone who's a huge Star Trek fan to produce the program, not another guy with no vision, whose TV shows quickly fall out of favor with fans. This has disaster written all over it. |
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11-04-2015, 03:53 PM | #19 |
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I started to write something about how this is a dumb idea, but it occurs to me that it's also a step toward what TV is going to be in the future.
Eventually all the CBS content you can watch on other platforms (like Star Trek reruns) will only be available on this CBS service. And Fox will have one, and ABC will have one, and so on, and we're going to have to subscribe to all these mini-Netflixes to get access. It's why Netflix is investing so heavily in original programming, because they know someday their original programming is all they'll have. |
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11-04-2015, 04:38 PM | #20 | |
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11-04-2015, 04:53 PM | #21 | |
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But yes, it was the stupid script/Khan reboot idea that was its undoing. They would have been better off coming up with an original idea than attempting a Khan ripoff. |
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11-04-2015, 04:54 PM | #22 | |
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Unfortunately... yeah... Paramount. I have a feeling we're going to regret these Star Trek reboot movies for a long, long, time. |
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11-04-2015, 05:08 PM | #23 | |
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11-04-2015, 05:17 PM | #24 | |
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1. No one knows what's "good" until it connects with an audience. If network execs knew what was going to connect, they wouldn't spend $250 million a year doing pilots. No one every knows beforehand. 2. While subscription services are great and give businesses like Netflix, Amazon and now Hulu (not to mention HBO Go! and Showtime's new app) opportunities to create original programming, the overwhelming majority of revenues come from Over The Air advertising on the Big Four networks. |
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11-04-2015, 06:07 PM | #25 | |
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11-04-2015, 06:10 PM | #26 |
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11-04-2015, 07:35 PM | #27 |
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Looks like this show will have to be a downloaded show off a torrent site if I want to watch it. I pay too ****ing much to TWC a month to ship off more money for a service where I receive just one show of interest. They can blow it out their ass.
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11-04-2015, 08:24 PM | #28 | |
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When shows like The Big Bang Theory and Two and a Half Men draw 20 million viewers per week, the network is earning hundreds of millions per season and even more when it goes to syndication (if it's produced by the network). They'd lose that money moving to a $5.99 per month subscription model. For example, HBO complains about the $60 million dollar budget for 13 episodes of Game of Thrones, yet NBC had no problem paying the six "Friends" one million per episode for a 24 episode season, or $144 million per season, just for the actors. They did it for ER, too. Streaming just can't compete with that at this time. |
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Potentially great news: Bryan Fuller's one of the showrunners.
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