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SilverSuferNorr t1_j9dklv3 wrote

The article reads more like a obituary than getting excited for anything on Paramount+Showtime.

It's say it will unlikely bring in new subscribers and risk turning the ones away.

Even goes on to say they want to resurrect dead shows and make them into franchise, instead of trying to take risks.

Showtime was stupid to gut those shows and should had tried to promote them.

Anyways the article basically saying Paramount+Showtime is playing it safe.

I have 2 more days in my subscription and I'm cancelling it. Literally nothing is worth the price on there for me.

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luvs2spooge92 t1_j9drw45 wrote

What you’re seeing is the slow killing Showtime to appease Viacom legacy brands. Last fall, Showtime’s CEO of 15 years left. After that they announced MTV Networks people would take over. Then they pivoted saying the Pluto CEO will take over. Then earlier this week, lots of Showtime execs left while a ton of people at the network were laid off. Viacom has a history of acquiring and destroying. Paramount keeps stumbling into money makers like Top Gun and Yellowstone so they’re just going to keep trying to do super broad stuff without really understanding why those things worked. They might stay alive but it will be through luck and not good decisions or talent.

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NeoNoireWerewolf t1_j9dwese wrote

Even the legacy brands are struggling. They moved RuPaul’s Drag Race from VH1 over to MTV hoping that it might get some people to actually watch MTV for the first time in a decade.

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a4techkeyboard t1_j9em197 wrote

Then MTV hilariously cut its runtime, created a new program they hoped to promote to the demo, so they put it between RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's Drag Race Untucked.

This made it so the new show can be easily seen as to blame for stealing Drag Race's runtime, maybe making people want to watch it even less when some of its cast already made some Drag Race fans not eager to watch it.

So... made Drag Race shorter and noticeably missing segments, made people have to wait for Untucked, put a person of questionable popularity among the audience in said show, and made the show look completely to blame.

And then nobody wanted to hate watch.

So... that was a great move on MTV's part.

(Also, made a Teen Wolf movie without writing a script first, and without one of the core characters.)

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luvs2spooge92 t1_j9dwa6t wrote

It would be nice if niche things made a comeback from these huge conglomerates but unfortunately I think this will be the tactic. Shallow, broad content until everyone buys each other out.

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ralten t1_j9dl5ul wrote

I’m just here for the Star Trek. That’s it

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slymm t1_j9duxt0 wrote

All they have is old IP. When they launched, they had a superbowl commercial that had a bunch of characters climbing their peak. It included Picard, Beavis and Butthead, Spongebob Squarepants etc.

I mean, they friggin made a TV show about an awesome movie they made in the 70s! It's wild how they are clinging onto past successes.

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ralten t1_j9dx2ih wrote

Like I said, I’m here for the Star Trek. I don’t care if it is old IP

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TVsGoneWrong t1_j9e3upf wrote

Haven't seen any Star Trek around here since at least 14 years ago. Though that was a partially flawed action version (though very good action despite its flaws).

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ralten t1_j9ox7lq wrote

Sounds like a you problem. In the last 5ish years we’ve got new series: Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Strange New Worlds, Prodigy.

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TVsGoneWrong t1_j9p5lhh wrote

Two soap operas, an animated comedy, (have not seen SNW yet but I hear it is Marvel Trek), and a little kids cartoon.

"Star Trek"

And the animated comedy and little kids show wouldn't even bother me if they were not canon with the "main" universe AND we actually got thoughtful, well-written main shows. But instead we get very badly written soap operas.

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ralten t1_j9qg6qf wrote

🙄 Do at least give SNW a try. It’s the best of the bunch, and does a great job capturing the spirit of older trek while also having characters that aren’t cardboard cut outs

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MackenziePace t1_j9flw7a wrote

> I mean, they friggin made a TV show about an awesome movie they made in the 70s!

Which one is this referring to?

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view9234 t1_j9fqr5r wrote

I'm assuming they mean "The Offer" which is about the production of The Godfather

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slymm t1_j9gblmr wrote

Correct. And I found it pretty entertaining (though absurd)

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slymm t1_j9gbn77 wrote

Haha, I forgot about the pink ladies show. As the person below guessed, I was talking about the offer

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Similar-Collar1007 t1_j9dl6ze wrote

They’ve already started the process of taking movies and turning them into series there’s a pink ladies grease spin-off series coming I think fatal attraction , the Italian job and flash dance are all in some form of development too

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[deleted] t1_j9fi3ss wrote

It's like they stopped at a gas station way off the highway, the one that services a small community near some provincial park and kept renting DVDs up until 5 years ago because the internet out there sucked. Then they dug through the discount DVD bin now that they're getting rid of them. The 3 for $5.00 bin. And those three movies are what they decided to make TV shows out of lol. Such a random, disjointed and mediocre mix.

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groggyMPLS t1_j9f8zyn wrote

You do know that Paramount’s marketing department did no write the article, right?

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