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The streaming phenom first came to Netflix on July 15 last year, just a week before the annual nerd pilgrimage got underway in San Diego. The buzz that's made the show such a hit was just building steam then -- and certainly not in time to make it Hall H-worthy.
Hall H, prepare to go upside-down: With a year under its belt and a new season right around the corner, Netflix is moving into the big kids' room, bringing Stranger Things and a couple of original films to the 6,000-seat monolith where so many Comic-Con legends are born.
Netflix has certainly been in San Diego for Comic-Con in years past, with their Marvel shows Luke Cage and The Defenders -- but those were in the smaller halls upstairs, in conjunction with the Marvel TV panels. The migration downstairs is all part of the massive influx of TV into Comic-Con, and those shows and networks have a lot more room to work with in Hall H now, as pirates continue to scare away the major film studios.
(Mashable has learned that Paramount, Sony and Universal/Legendary will once again not host Hall H panels this year, while Fox's plans are still taking shape. Definitely on board: Warner Bros. and Marvel, the only two major film studios to present in 2016.)
Netflix original films Bright (from Suicide Squad director David Ayer) and Japanese manga adaptation Death Note are hosting their very own Hall H panel on Thursday, a slot that would've hosted the likes of Paramount or Universal in years past. (Later that night, Netflix will host a "surprise screening" of "an upcoming original film" at the Horton Grand Theater -- gee, which one could it be?)
Netflix will also host a convention-floor booth through the entire weekend, described as an "interactive brand experience where [fans] will be surrounded by 360 Degrees of Netflix originals." And if that isn't enough, it's also creating "The Netflix Experience" at the Hilton Gaslamp, where fans will get even more sneak-peeks and swag.
Josh Dickey is Mashable's Entertainment Editor, leading Mashable's TV, music, gaming and sports reporters as well as writing movie features and reviews.Josh has been the Film Editor at Variety, Entertainment Editor at The Associated Press and Managing Editor at TheWrap.com.A finalist for the Los Angeles Press Club's Best Entertainment Feature in 2015 for "Everyone is Altered: The Secret Hollywood Procedure that Fooled Us for Years," Josh received his BA in Journalism from The University of Minnesota.In between screenings, he can be found skating longboards, shredding guitar and wandering the streets of his beloved downtown Los Angeles.
After being removed from Paramount+ in June, Star Trek: Prodigy returned to streaming on Christmas Day via a global re-launch on Netflix. And the animated show appears to be hitting its target audience as it is already showing up on Netflix Top 10 lists around the world.
After months of not being available to stream, the first season of Star Trek: Prodigy is back. All 20 episodes are available now on Netflix globally. The show about alien kids who find adventure on a Starfleet ship (with a little help from a hologram of Captain Janeway) debuted strong. After just the first day, it popped into the list of Top 10 Kids TV Shows in the USA at #9. As of today, it has climbed to #6. Prodigy is one of only two recently added shows in the Top 10.
Launching on the biggest streaming service in the world gives Prodigy a chance to find a new audience. The series was designed from the outset to appeal to younger audiences not familiar with the franchise. Elements of Trek lore were introduced gradually over the first season, making it more welcoming and accessible for new fans.
The success of the relaunch is not just in the USA. Netflix is streaming Prodigy across the globe, except for Canada (where it is already available via CTV and the CTV app) and the SkyShowtime countries in Europe. Netflix has a larger global reach than Paramount+ so in many markets, viewers are getting their first chance to see Prodigy. According to the tracking site FlixPatrol, on its first day Prodigy also ranked in the Top 10 lists in the UK, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, and New Zealand. UPDATE: Just like the USA, the show is moving up the ranks globally. Today it moved from #9 to #6 in the UK and from #5 to #1 in Germany. It also jumped into the top 10 lists in Australia, Italy, and France.
The second season of Prodigy was completed earlier this month. Netflix will release season 2 in 2024, but they have not yet announced when or if they will be splitting up the season of 20 episodes. The producers of the show have made it clear it is possible for Netflix to order additional seasons. If the show continues to perform well, Prodigy may live on into season 3 and beyond.
Netflix wanted to keep the show but Paramount wanted to have Discovery releasing on both Paramount+ when they were launching the service in Europe while also keeping it on Netflix but Netflix wanted the show exclusive according to journalists from Deadline and Variety.
So Paramount bought back the international streaming rights for the show and also Discovery was a ratings hit for Paramount+ as reported by Paramount themselves (they also said SNW was a ratings hit too so if you believe that report you have to believe the other one too).
And just for fun I went and Googled and nothing came up about Discovery being in any top 10 lists for Netflix. The only top ten lists that keeps coming up are their rewatched Star Trek episodes, ironically back in 2017.
But I been saying for months I thought more people would at least give it a chance because Netflix is just a much bigger site and because of all the buzz over the show after it cancelled. I said it to someone in the last thread I had faith more people would at least check it out because how much fans pushed to get it back on the air. So even people who never watched it became more curious about it over all the hoopla.
One last thing i know you hate Discovery for whatever reasons but trying to spread a false narrative that the show was a ratings failure is wrong. I wish Trekkies like yourself would stop posting false information on a show just to fit your narrative of hate.
Paramount+, which rebranded from CBS All Access, did not reveal how many people had watched the shows or how many hours they had been watched for, but instead broke down its most-watched across numerous other categories.
Actually Discovery did great on Netflix in the UK (and most European countries as a matter of fact). I remember many times when the UK Netflix social media account was reporting what shows was in the top ten and when new episodes for Discovery were being released they were almost always in the top 10.
Exactly! We would probably get Star Trek Legacy on Netflix no problem because unlike Paramount+ broke ass, it would have the money to make it and a huge reach around the world. That show could be a huge hit on Netflix.
It will be interesting to see if P+ throws in the towel or keeps trying to compete with Netflix, Amazon and Disney+. I am quite surprised to see that they have grown into the top 5 just below Max (HBO Discovery), but they are far far behind the likes of the big three. If WB Max and P+ merge they will move within close striking distance of Disney+. That said, I am not sure what that would mean for Star Trek. We shall see what happens on the M&A front.
As for the long term impacts and licensing, clearly Prodigy on Netflix is proving P+ is not adverse to considering the licensing model for some of its shows. The size of the subscriber bases for the big three really provide an advantage on reaching a potential audience.
That is what makes the viewing numbers for Picard and SNW so impressive as they both achieved top 10 ratings while on P+, with its paltry subscriber base compared with the likes of Netflix which boasts almost a quarter billion subs.
They should definitely put TOS-ENT back on Netflix and the other streaming services because so few people have P+ the only people who watches them are now the same old fans watching all the new shows. If you want to capture newer audiences then it should be on bigger sites where they already are.
I thought I was going to be a NuTrek hater for life after the really bad JJ verse movies, Discovery and Picard. But Star Trek has finally come back to the elements and type of story telling that made me a fan in the first place thanks to shows like Prodigy.
PIC season 3, though it did much better with character and story, was not great in the execution of its serialized arc. Switching villains midstream, totally sidelining the Changelings, and the obviously more limited budget hurt the show a little but it was still miles better than most of what had come before in late season 1 and in 2.
Season 1 and Season 3 were so different it is hard to compare. I agree on Season 2. It pains me to say since I love the character of Picard, but it is probably my least favorite season of ANY Star Trek series. Just TERRIBLE. They could have done a lot more social commentary and that might have helped it but the social commentary they did (if there was any really?) was extremely half-baked.
On the other hand, those Voyager fan-service elements do have a lot of draw with older Trek viewers, so I still contend that it would be detrimental to the show overall to remove them. Why would you get rid of elements of the show that a large segment of the potential audience might have a strong connection to? Those VOY ties can only help the show with the wider audience metrics and thus help PRO get a potential extension on Netflix.
Yes the legacy characters are there to initially keep the old fans interested, but they also want new fans to fall in love with the legacy characters as well. The producers have all but said this multiple times. Janeway is meant to be a bigger beacon to get kids and new viewers into the larger Star Trek universe because she is a very old and iconic character in the fanbase and hope that they will gravitate to her in time just like people did when VOY originally started. The hope is probably to duplicate that again.
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