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Netflix has introduced that will probably be saving the short-lived Paramount+ sequence Star Trek: Prodigy, which not too long ago had its second renewal order scrapped. After purchasing the mission, Netflix has introduced it’ll quickly be the brand new streaming dwelling for each season 1 in 2023 and season 2 in 2024.
Aimed at youthful audiences, Star Trek: Prodigy is one in every of many Star Trek exhibits (or at the least was) produced solely for Paramount+ and what was then known as CBS All Access.
20 episodes of the sequence have aired to date, with season 1 being launched throughout two elements. Season 1, half 2, was launched on Paramount+ between October 2021 and February 2022, whereas half 2 dropped weekly between October 2022 and December 2022.
Created by Kevin & Dan Hageman, the 3D animated sequence adopted a motley crew of younger aliens discovering themselves dwelling aboard an deserted Starfleet ship. Brett Gray, Ella Purnell, Jason Mantzoukas, Angus Imrie, Rylee Alazraqui, Dee Bradley Baker, Jimmi Simpson, John Noble, and Kate Mulgrew lent their voices to the sequence.
In June 2023, Paramount+ joined different streamers like Disney in purging a few of its content material from the platform, together with the primary season of Star Trek: Prodigy. In addition, it reversed the season 2 renewal order. That season was already deep into manufacturing, and stories on the time instructed that it could be allowed to be shopped to different networks.
Season 2 might be launched solely on Netflix in 2024
Fast ahead to at present, and Netflix has introduced it’ll be the brand new dwelling for each season 1, which is able to drop in late 2023 (keep watch over our coming quickly part for extra), and also will solely launch season 2 in some unspecified time in the future in 2024.
On October eleventh, Netflix Tweeted:
“Star Trek: Prodigy is coming to Netflix!
Season 1 of the animated sequence launches onto Netflix later this yr whereas a model new Season 2 is slated to debut in 2024”
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In a joint assertion on Alex Kurtzman’s social pages, they thank the followers of the present and state that “they can’t wait to share it [season 2] with the amazing fans around the world.”
Statement by Alex Kurtzman and Dan & Kevin Hageman on the Star Trek: Prodigy revival
Aaron J. Waltke, a producer and screenwriter on Star Trek: Prodigy, posted shortly following the announcement with the hashtag “WeSavedStarTrekProdigy,” saying:
“At final, we are able to share the information… Star Trek: Prodigy has landed!
Our present is past thrilled to be becoming a member of NETFLIX for the continued adventures of the Protostar crew.
Star Trek followers throughout the galaxy — and younger cadets within the making — have been granted the prospect to see our sequence, many for the very first time. With a really world viewers, it’s a rare alternative to develop our already formidable fanbase.
It is in no small half due to you, the fandom — who demonstrated by your extraordinary efforts that the tales of Starfleet, and the outsiders who aspire to it, will endure. We are so deeply humbled and grateful past phrases.
Many on the Prodigy group, together with myself and the Hagemans, have created some distinctive tv with Netflix — and we very a lot stay up for doing so once more.
The prospects are infinite now that the world can see all 40 episodes of Prodigy’s first and second seasons in a single place which our passionate forged and crew have labored so tirelessly on – with the potential for extra as we boldly go and search out this new horizon.
If you want to see extra Dal and Gwyn and Rok-Tahk and Zero and Jankom and Murf, viewing the present on Netflix as quickly because it drops – and telling others the excellent news, to do the identical — is unequivocally the way in which.
There’s not far more to say. Other than… Go quick. Spread the phrase. Together…
…We Saved Star Trek: Prodigy.
Set a course for dwelling.”
This is a part of a current technique shift from Paramount Global, which has been a lot keener on licensing titles, to locations like Netflix. Earlier in 2023, we noticed them store Ripley to Netflix, which was initially attributable to be launched on Showtime. That’s along with different licensing, equivalent to Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber being licensed within the US in October 2023 after being yanked from Paramount+.
On the child’s aspect, we’ve additionally seen them license a few of its Nickelodeon content material to the service lately and work on a model new Original Spongebob film scheduled for 2024. We additionally see Nickelodeon titles arrive solely on Netflix from the 2019 output deal that features the Erin & Aaron, slated for a November launch.
At one level, Netflix was streaming dwelling to the vast majority of older Star Trek exhibits. It had the entire assortment of Deep Space Nine, Voyager, Enterprise, The Next Generation, and even The Animated Series for a time frame, however they slowly departed all through 2021 and into 2022.
Internationally, Netflix was additionally the distributor for Star Trek: Discovery till late 2021, when the primary three seasons (marked as Netflix Originals) had been unceremoniously eliminated, with all future seasons unique to Paramount+.
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