Conglomerate ViacomCBS officially unveiled the first teaser for the third season of the series “Star Trek: Discovery“(Star Trek: Discovery), which will become available for viewing from October 15. And the announcement raises many questions.
The fact is that a conference was held online last week San Diego Comic-Con Internationalwhich turned out to be a complete failure. If you look at the organizers’ official channel on Youtube, then you can see that many videos have not collected even thousands of views.
This should not be surprising, for such mastodons as DC and Marvel… The former will hold their own conference in August, and the latter dropped the trailer as a handout. “New mutants“. The second blow was the fact that in parallel with San Diego Comic-Con it was announced that a number of major theatrical releases were postponed, which created a negative background.
In such conditions, a panel dedicated to the franchise was actively promoted. Star trek… In particular, it was advertised by the Twitter administration and a number of American media. But heavy artillery did not help: a little more than 63 thousand people watched the pre-recorded “broadcast”, which is extremely small for such a famous series. In addition, representatives of ViacomCBS tried to clear the media space of critics by closing comments, turning off comments, and also proceeding to block any videos on the panel. As a result, the censors managed to temporarily block … the official broadcast on the San Diego Comic-Con channel.
The creators’ performances themselves turned out to be as boring as possible. Specifically showrunner Alex Kurtzman bluntly stated that he turned the franchise into a platform for promoting his political ideas. In addition, the cast recited the final episode of Discovery season two.
At the same time, suspiciously little was said about the shows themselves. There was only one announcement: the channel Nickelodeon acquired the rights to show the children’s animated series Star Trek: Prodigy… At the same time, the rights to show a more adult animated series Lower decks no one has redeemed, so it remains exclusive Cbs all access…
Nothing was really said about the series Star Trek: Strange New Worldsdedicated to the alternate version of the captain James Kirk and his team. It was only said that work is underway on the scripts. At the same time, previously the insider Daniel Richtman stated that CBS wants to make Kirk bisexual.
No information was provided on the spin-off either Section 31 from Michelle Yeoh starring. This is true for feature films as well. The nail in the coffin, however, was the teaser for the third season of Discovery, which was released just outside the panel today. However, the video is not on the official CBS channels. And there is an explanation for this.
The first two seasons were broadcast by the streaming service Netflixwho paid for the rights to an international show. However, at the end of the fresh teaser, it is stated that the third season of “Discovery” is a CBS All Access exclusive. Not a word has been said about Netflix’s role, and the company’s social media accounts have also remained silent.
Prior to that, insiders had repeatedly reported that Netflix management remained extremely dissatisfied with the work of Kurtzman, the statistics of which were simply depressing. Therefore, the platform relinquished the rights to the series “Picard“(Picard), which were eventually bought by the company Amazon… However, sources say that the latter also miscalculated, because “Picard” was a failure. In particular, the stats on repeat views were virtually zero, which is bad news for any streaming platform. Now Amazon is allegedly trying to relinquish the rights to the second season of “Picard”, the creation of which is complicated by the venerable age of Sir Patrick Stewart…
It can be assumed that Netflix decided not to mess with Cbs this time, leaving the partner alone with financial difficulties. At the same time, information appeared earlier about problems with the completion of the third season of “Discovery”. It was reported that after filming, orders were given to dismantle the set at Pinewood Studios across Star Trek. When reshoots were needed, the train had already left, which put Secret Hideout studio responsible for the project in a difficult position. Moreover, the destruction of the scenery puts an end to the original plans for the fourth season.
Thus, the new seasons of “Discovery” and the Lower Decks remain exclusive to North Americans, as CBS All Access only operates in the US and Canada. But it is possible that the show at other venues will take place, it’s just that the parties are still trying to agree on prices.
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