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I just don't understand how they think they'll be able to recoup $78 million (13 episodes times $6 million per, which is on the low side) from an internet subscription channel. While Netflix has 36 million subscribers, CBS would need 13 million subscribers to break even. That doesn't seem likely, considering 95% of all of their content can be viewed OTA. It just doesn't seem well thought out. |
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Being a Trek junkie, I will likely pay for one month, just enough to binge watch the series, and then cancel. My guess is that my tactic will mirror 90% of the subscribers they gain specifically sure to this new series. I do the same thing with Showtime for Homeland.
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I'll venture to guess that they will treat it like a network series to increase revenues. If the series is a gigantic hit, I'll bet they air it on CBS during summer months, too. |
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My guess is that the premiere will do a big number when they air it on CBS (which they've already said they're going to do) and they'll quickly work out some deal to air the whole season. Probably something like the episodes will premiere on the app then air on TV a couple weeks later.
Also I don't hate the idea of an anthology format, if for no other reason than it keeps alive my dream of the TNG cast getting a non-shitty send-off. |
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FWIW, CBS All Access has less than 100,000 subscribers while Netflix has more than 30 million. |
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At this point I've seen so many reboots I'm just not really interested anymore. An anthology format is just an annual reboot. No thanks.
I might be swayed to come back if they did a story from the Klingon's point of view during the war. Or maybe the Romulans. At this point, the Federation is just so much watered down trash that there is just no excitement there anymore. Abrams destroyed it for me, and after the last trailer I don't expect Pegg can save the next one. I was intrigued by Axanar, but Paramount pretty much killed that.
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And this is coming from an old die hard Star Trek fan. I had seen every episode of the original show at least ten times by the time I was fifteen years old. I used to play a game just to annoy my sister where I would name the episode and give a competent spoken synopsis within the first ten to twenty seconds of the show.
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(Don't get me wrong, I still think it would bomb, because I just don't see the interest for it. Whatever's left to be wrung out of Star Trek storylines is going to happen in the films anyway.) |
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GOT does some green screening but they mostly film on location. 13 episodes costs HBO nearly $80 million this past season but they have a gigantic subscriber base in order to justify those costs. As I mentioned earlier, Netflix has more than 30 million subscribers and CBS All Access has less than 100k, so I can't see how this series will be a "winner" for CBS, unless they hire complete unknowns and build cheesy sets, like those in the '60's. |
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As I expected, CBS will treat the new series like a traditional series: No binge watching.
http://www.theatlantic.com/entertain...tm_source=SFFB According to a conference call held with reporters by CBS’s president, Les Moonves, the new Star Trek series will debut in January 2017, with one episode released per week. It’s not much different from how CBS airs its programs now, except that “All Access” will cost an extra $6 a month. T he news that Star Trek was returning to TV excited devoted fans of the franchise, but online chatter mostly focused on how quickly they’d be able to watch the season before unsubscribing from the service. The fan site TrekCore acknowledges, sadly, that such a “binge and bail” tactic won’t be possible—which is exactly what CBS wants. As cable cord-cutting grows more common among younger viewers, networks need to find a new way into their pockets, which is why the weekly cliffhanger may not be going anywhere anytime soon. |
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Why would anyone subscribe now? Do they have anything that's exclusive to the service that's worth $6/month? They have no shows that air on CBS that even come close to the Netflix originals.
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