Coliver@startrek.website to Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website · 2 years agoTrek Central reporting that Star Trek Prodigy has been cancelled and will be removed from Paramount+ in coming days.twitter.comexternal-linkmessage-square107fedilinkarrow-up1190
arrow-up1186external-linkTrek Central reporting that Star Trek Prodigy has been cancelled and will be removed from Paramount+ in coming days.twitter.comColiver@startrek.website to Star Trek Social Club@startrek.website · 2 years agomessage-square107fedilink
minus-squareinterolivary@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up13·2 years agoDon’t streaming platforms remove canceled shows so they don’t have to pay residuals to actors (or whoever is contractually getting them)? I’ve understood that streaming residuals are pretty shit to begin with
minus-squareCeruleanRuin@lemmy.onelinkfedilinkarrow-up11·2 years agoYep. It’s corporate greed, plain and simple, and it’s disgusting.
minus-squareVentraSqwal@links.dartboard.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoSometimes. Other times it’s a tax write-off apparently.
minus-squareinterolivary@beehaw.orglinkfedilinkarrow-up6·1 year agoOr – probably – a tax write-off and a way to dodge residuals
Don’t streaming platforms remove canceled shows so they don’t have to pay residuals to actors (or whoever is contractually getting them)? I’ve understood that streaming residuals are pretty shit to begin with
Yep. It’s corporate greed, plain and simple, and it’s disgusting.
Sometimes. Other times it’s a tax write-off apparently.
Or – probably – a tax write-off and a way to dodge residuals