‘Fans’ fundraised to pay for full page advertisements in major US newspapers as a campaign to persuade NBC not to broadcast TAS even after its season one production was almost complete.
I’m still frustrated that none of the Canadian cast got good development.
Almost all of them have significant awards within Canada. Most have other shows, films or are producing themselves.
While many of them took these roles for steady work, it was clear that they weren’t intended by the executives be more than regular wallpaper. It’s unfortunate.
I feel the same about Mitchell in SNW.
However, he has made Skydance profitable unlike another famous billionaire by inheritance who repeatedly went bankrupt.
It seems that his father’s approach is to let his heirs learn to run companies on their own with injections of capital that are staggering for others but just a couple years earnings on the family’s wealth.
It’s confirmed but after a second read, I think that’s clear.
Interesting that Skydance Studios television, which was a prestigious brand, will sublimate under the Paramount Television Studios name. It does show a certain commitment to the merger on David Ellison’s part.
Is there information where the Skydance television production will go?
Is that with the Paramount side?
It wouldn’t make sense to have three television/streaming production arms.
My brain isn’t firing on all cylinders today.
Yes it’s Michelle Hurd who played Raffi.
Also, yes I am bitter that Ro Laren was killed off and even more ticked that Picard played it as though there had been a romantic tension between them rather than a mentor-mentee one.
And it sounds as though Paladin in Vision Quest will be another version of the same character but as a Mandalorian analogue.
Tawny as the principal character as well as co-creator and EP is very interesting.
The fact that she’s been able to state publicly that she would be the lead suggests that the proposal was as advanced as it could be until the new ownership and team could make decisions.
Setting it in the late 24th to early 25th century will also provide the kind of ‘legacy’ opportunities that many Berman-era fans and actors are hankering for while satisfying the apparent executive demands that legacy characters be included for marketing purposes.
Frankly, having legacy characters come to a single planet would be a lot less unrealistic than Matalas’ concept of having the Enterprise G travelling around to visit legacy characters and locations. Production costs and staging would be manageable.
If this is intended to run as a true 22-30 minute comedy, I really hope that Paramount’s streamer greenlights an initial double season as Netflix does. It really takes about 8 episodes for a half hour show to take off.
Star Trek Prodigy is the sequel to Voyager.
It’s not just for kids, although intended for a family audience.
Given that there is almost no French language dub options on Paramount+, it’s good on one hand to know that Ellison is aware that lack of ‘localization’ is a significant barrier.
As a regular viewer of shows produced in other languages, do I think that an AI translation subtitles would get me watching more Paramount+? — not likely. Certainly not if it was a matter of AI generated dubbing.
One of the reasons that I watch most dubbed shows in French rather than English is that the quality of the dubbing and the translations are usually much higher in French.
It’s not just enough to have subtitles or a dub, the quality of these is make or break. I’m impressed that Netflix lists the dubbing actors by name for each language in the credits. That’s taking ‘localization’ seriously!
Efficiencies and synergies according to the messaging but it could mean AI given references to harnessing Silicon Valley is the $ 2 billion reference in the article.
$16 million is given as the out of court settlement for the 60 minutes suit.
In the midst of Barbie-pink dominance, TAS would like a word.
Star Trek’s own home of pink, purple and lime green has something to say.
And people wonder why the Titan-A’s holodeck Ten Forward program ran when the ship was power rationed…Or, how many space anomalies does it take before Starfleet mandates failsafes?
I’d rather talk about reactions to a show that’s actually happening — even if they are based only on a trailer and pre promotional interviews — than endless hyping, speculation and claims of groundswells of fan enthusiasm about projects that aren’t happening.
Now that it’s no longer the officially sanctioned con, STLV’s panels seem to be set up to encourage producers and actors to hype projects that never even got to the development he’ll’ stage let alone any consideration for being greenlit. These include Tarantino’s bat-sh*t movie idea, Captain Worf, Legacy and the recently revealed Unity proposal.