CBS can eat a bag of cock . Come on , guys . Literally every other channel is micturate a short ton of money off science fabrication show right now . Except you . pick the genre is just sad .
Among CBS ’ many , many confutable decisions in its approach to Star Trek , one of the unearthly has been arrange the fresh serial publication on a digital platform that requires lover to pay six dollar bill a calendar month to watch a grand totality of two original show . And every CBS show ever made . ( If you need that experience without commercial , it ’ll be you 10 buck . )
CBS Interactive CEO Jim Lanzone say that the option was n’t a blatant cash grab plan to take reward of an existing and passionate fan base . No ! It ’s something CBS did to facilitate the show . In addition to saying that the online show will get to bank and have nakedness ( ah , yes , that is vital to Star Trek ) , Lanzone also made a really confusing argument about skill fiction . Here ’s what he told the podcastRecode Media with Peter Kafka :
Scifi is not something that has traditionally done really well on programme . It ’s not inconceivable , for the future , if somebody figures it out . And thing like Lost and Heroes have had character of , you acknowledge , scifi , but historically , a show like Star Trek would n’t needs be a broadcast show , at this point . And so , you kind of look at the other electronic web we have , CW and Showtime , it just meet the with the digital interview and take that digital Star Trek audience .
That “ historically ” sentence is a grammatic and legitimate incubus , but I mean he entail that Star Trek : The Original Series would n’t be on a broadcast transmission channel if it were made today . Also , claiming that Heroes only had “ part ” of scifi is downright screaming .
I will grant him that basic and premium cable channels have had more success with scientific discipline fable than the programme connection . And that Star Trek did not do well in its initial run . Most networks ca n’t bet on making money from syndication anymore , either .
The most generous meter reading of Lanzone ’s dustup is that he means that CBS ’ demographic does n’t reply to science fable , I ’d buy that , even though Supergirl in reality did exquisitely on CBS . But he did n’t say that . He tried to say Star Trek just did n’t belong to on broadcast telly . You know , the place it has been for hundred of years .
However , all of that is an argument that the show might not belong on CBS , not that the in force place for it is behind a paywall on the internet . Does he really think it fit there well than the CW , which is almost entirely genre display these days ? But that ’s still broadcast . The internet is also partnering with Netflix for international distribution — why not try out to do the same deal Marvel ’s made with Netflix ? sight more multitude would check it there . But they want the great unwashed to pay them directly . So why not Showtime ? No , seriously , why not put it on Showtime ?
CBS is so bad at managing the Star Trek franchise , it ’s almost comical .
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