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The streaming media service confirmed it will switch from star ratings to a simpler "thumbs up" or "thumbs down" in April. Netflix will also introduce a "percent match" score based on what content its users are watching.

Netflix said the move should clear up confusion about how users should apply ratings in a star-based system, which is traditionally used to indicate the quality of a TV series or movie. But not so with Netflix.

"The star ratings represented compatibility -- not quality," said Netflix in a statement. "This means that 4-5 stars indicated that based on your previous viewing habits, Netflix thought you would enjoy a specific title."

The "percent match" feature will present a percentage next to a series or film representing the chances you will enjoy watching. For example, if you see 90% next to Stranger Things, it means Netflix thinks there's a 90% chance you'll enjoy watching that program based on previous viewing habits.

The news that Star Trek: Prodigy has been picked up by Netflix raises some interesting questions about the streaming future of the Star Trek franchise. Following a passionate fan campaign, Netflix was announced as the new home for the animated Star Trek series after it was unceremoniously dropped from Paramount+. The cancelation of Prodigy was a bizarre move by Paramount, which made a mockery of their promise to be the home of all things Star Trek. With 24 episodes in various stages of production, Prodigy could have easily filled the gaps in their 2024 Star Trek schedules caused by the WGA strike, and the ongoing industrial action by SAG-AFTRA.

Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 is set to start streaming on Netflix in early 2024, continuing the story of Dal R'El (Brett Gray) and his crew of young Starfleet hopefuls. It's already been revealed that Star Trek: Voyager's EMH, the Doctor (Robert Picardo) will appear in the new series, alongside returning legacy characters like Admiral Kathryn Janeway (Kate Mulgrew) and Captain Chakotay (Robert Beltran). Even more exciting for fans of Star Trek: Voyager was the news that Prodigy season 2's hero ship will be the USS Voyager-A. With Prodigy season 2 now secured, attention will predictably turn to what this Netflix deal means for the wider Star Trek franchise.

The most immediate result of Star Trek: Prodigy's Netflix deal is that fans will now have to switch between streaming services. Internationally, this was the state of play before Paramount+ launched, with a variety of streaming services including Prime Video and Netflix hosting the likes of Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Discovery. After the huge success of Star Trek: Picard season 3 and Star Trek: Strange New Worlds season 2, it's very odd that Paramount have already begun selling off other Trek shows to their rival streamers. Not least because it feels like no time at all since Paramount+ based its marketing strategy on being the home of the Star Trek franchise.

Now that Star Trek: Prodigy season 2 will stream on Netflix, the franchise is now targeting audiences outside those Paramount+ subscribers. Prodigy is both a great primer for younger audiences, and a thoroughly entertaining backdoor Star Trek: Voyager sequel for older viewers. It's therefore possible that Netflix subscribers who stumble upon Prodigy could be inspired to seek out more Star Trek from Paramount+. The biggest outstanding question about what the Netflix deal means for the future of Star Trek is whether the streaming service has an option to commission Prodigy season 3. If not, then Prodigy's resurrection could be disappointingly short-lived.

If Paramount+ is no longer tied to their promise to be the home of Star Trek, then there is a small possibility that other shows could end up joining Star Trek: Prodigy on Netflix. The cancelation of Prodigy was so abrupt that there was an uncomfortable feeling that no Star Trek show was truly safe on Paramount+. Mike McMahan has stated that Star Trek: Lower Decks' future is uncertain beyond season 5. As the Prodigy debacle has proved, the confirmation of a Lower Decks season 5 isn't necessarily a cast-iron guarantee for that fifth season to start streaming on Paramount+.

Should the unthinkable happen, Mike McMahan and the Lower Deckers could take some comfort from the good news about Star Trek: Prodigy season 2. It seems that the only way Netflix would buy more Star Trek shows is if Paramount were to cancel another show mid-production. Given that audiences and industry commentators are wise to this cost-cutting loophole, it seems likely that the studios may be more wary about future high-profile cancelations. However, if the hypothetical worst was to happen and Paramount+ pulled Star Trek: Lower Decks before or after season 5, it's fair to say that the fans would rally behind it like they did with Prodigy, making it an appealing prospect to Netflix.

Alongside the campaign to save Star Trek: Prodigy, fans have been petitioning Paramount+ to make Star Trek: Legacy. If the Prodigy petition helped to prove to Netflix that there was a demonstrable audience for the Star Trek show, then surely the Legacy petition could do something similar. However, making Terry Matalas' proposed Star Trek: Picard spinoff is a more complicated proposition for a number of reasons. While Prodigy showrunners Dan and Kevin Hageman were able to take the petition to Netflix, they also had 24 episodes in various states of readiness. Terry Matalas' Legacy doesn't have this luxury, nor do Netflix has the power to commission a new Star Trek show.

Only Alex Kurtzman and Paramount+ have the power to greenlight Star Trek: Legacy and as the streamers are tightening their belts it will be harder to justify a new show. Star Trek: Prodigy was a unique case because production was allowed to continue after its cancelation. Legacy is a different proposition, but the positive response to the Prodigy petition should give Terry Matalas and his potential cast some hope. As with Star Trek: Prodigy, the Legacy petition has shown the appetite for the Star Trek: Picard spinoff. Hopefully this demonstrable audience will be enough to convince Paramount to continue the story of Captain Seven of Nine (Jeri Ryan) into Star Trek's 25th century.

Dan Levy may forever be known as David Rose, the spoiled rotten character he played on the comedy series "Schitt's Creek." Levy's new film may surprise his fans. "Good Grief" is a movie he wrote and directed about loss. His character's husband is killed in a car crash, and the movie follows his complicated path through the grieving process.

LEVY: I just had this very strong desire to do something very different. After 80 episodes of working on a comedy series, I just wanted to challenge myself in new ways. And in my case, I wanted to bite off something slightly more dramatic, and the parts weren't coming. And I kind of had to swallow the expectations and just pursue something that made me happy in an industry that is very precarious and scary at times. If I don't explore or expand my curiosity as a writer and an actor, then the industry wins in a way.

FADEL: So you play Marc in this movie, and the story begins with a holiday party - bright lights, loud conversation, laughter, singing. Then Marc's husband leaves the party early and dies a block away in a car crash. The very next scene, Marc is in bed, alone, grieving. All the color is drained from the frame, your black hair against white bedsheets. It's this great visual representation of the before and after of a violent loss like that. And Marc goes through different stages of grief. I want to play this one scene.

LEVY: (As Marc) I've been reading that the brain is like a muscle. It's why getting over a death is so hard, because your brain has been trained to feel things for a person, and when they go away, your head is still operating under the impression that it should feel those things for that person, like muscle memory. So I'm just trying to train my brain to not feel as much for right now.

LEVY: In the case of Marc, he is someone who I don't think had ever really sat in his feelings and explored them. And so the idea that he'd read something that was somewhat avoidant and really clung on to that as a potential means of getting through this, like, unbearable pain in his life - it made sense. And obviously it all comes to a screeching halt toward the end of the film because, ultimately, I don't think you can run away from your feelings forever, but you can certainly try.

LEVY: Certainly. I mean, the movie came from my own confusion around feelings of grief and what it all meant and whether I was honoring the people that I was mourning appropriately. In my case, it was my grandmother. And then five days before I wrote the screenplay, my dog of 10 years passed away, and so it was a very raw and confusing time. I couldn't speak the feelings. I could only write them, and the feelings in it were the only way I could kind of make sense of my own.

FADEL: There's also a storyline in here about the family you kind of choose for yourself - right? - the family not that you're born with, but the friends you collect that become your closest people. And I think most people who have to adult recognize this support group that you collect. Your character, Marc, has two friends who are instrumental in helping him.

LEVY: Thomas, he had a former relationship with, and Sophie has always been sort of the life of the party, and they essentially represent old, deep friendships. I've been single for a while, and if you don't have a partner, your friends are the love of your life. They're who you confide in. They are who help you get through things. And I always knew when "Schitt's Creek" ended that I wanted to tell a story about friendship, to really center this conversation of how important friends are, and also unmarried, without children and thriving.

LEVY: And that's another conversation that is happening in the movie. I'm 40. I feel pressure all the time to be partnered, and I feel pressure all the time to figure out what my family looks like. And the truth is, I love my life, and I'm single and childless. And that's not to say that whatever path people choose is right or wrong, but I also didn't see a lot of that conversation happening.

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