It's very probably not written yet, maybe they have some kind of general outline but otherwise they would need the full writer's room to write 20 episodes.
Poll How likely do you think it is that Prodigy will find a new home?
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Well, I hope they ended S2 in a good place, then. Like I said, I think PRO at least has a chance of finding a new home (but I'm still disgusted with Paramount for their decision to suppress it, and if you want to drop another warning on my head for refusing to condone their actions, go right ahead). But unfortunately, there's a far cry between putting a fully created series on a streaming service (which is probably at most a few dozen man-hours of low-level tech work) and actually creating more episodes (thousands of man-hours of Pixar-level computer wizardry). If we ever get to see S2, I think that will be our farewell to the crew of the USS Protostar.
That was always a possibility, and I can see the logic from Paramount's perspective since up until the last year or so the Canadian Paramount+ outlet was a bit of a joke given they could not have any of the Paramount+ original shows due to pre-existing deals in place with other Canadian channels. IE, Bell Media had the Star Trek shows, The Good Fight was on W, The Stand was on the Canadian Amazon Prime outlet. And given the "back catalogue" of other CBS shows were already available through other streaming services, there wasn't really a reason to get Paramount+ in Canada. It's only been the past year, year and a half that's changed and the Canadian Paramount+ started getting access to the original shows when they started getting 1883, Halo, 1923, and others.
Basically, it makes more business sense for Paramount+ to acquire the Trek shows for their Canadian outlet rather than let Bell Media keep them. And even then, it's only Crave that's losing the shows, they will still continue to air on CTV Sci-Fi. Granted, even that could change in the near future.
I voted Unlikely. Not even Star Trek fans seem to rally around this series compared to Picard and Discovery.
Sad, since I think it captures the best of Trek.
Sad, since I think it captures the best of Trek.
Yes. I think that it will be seen as one of the Trek franchise's most underrated entries.
In terms of finding a new home with new content, I voted uncertain.
Re Season 2 - Considering Paramount's history of doing multiple double dipping with physical media releases, at the very least I predict S2 will eventually get a bluray/disc release. I just dont see Paramount just leaving untapped content out there without trying to cash in in some manner.
If that's the route they take, I believe It would be the first Star Trek show or movie in history to go to the "direct to video" route. (Not counting the VHS release of "The Cage")
Re Season 2 - Considering Paramount's history of doing multiple double dipping with physical media releases, at the very least I predict S2 will eventually get a bluray/disc release. I just dont see Paramount just leaving untapped content out there without trying to cash in in some manner.
If that's the route they take, I believe It would be the first Star Trek show or movie in history to go to the "direct to video" route. (Not counting the VHS release of "The Cage")
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They may not be able to do that if they decide to take the tax break. If they can't sell it to another service/network, then the potential income from selling direct to video would have to outweigh the tax benefits.
Well if season 1 fyls off the shelves and become hard to find, I hope that would be an indcater that there is demand/profit to be made.
The only way season 2 is getting a physical media release is if someone else picks it up and airs it. Because of the tax write-off Paramount+ is getting for not airing it.
I think it's been some years now since any sort of physical home-media flew off the shelves.
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