Paramount Cut Star Trek: Discovery Off From Most of The World
As the streaming age has entered the walled-garden era of studio-owned platforms, audiences have gotten used to begrudgingly signing up for yet another new service to get access to the shows they once had elsewhere. But ViacomCBS managed to do the impossible and get Star Trek fans to agree on something when it announced, just two days before the fourth season of Discovery was about to premiere, that it was removing the series from Netflix across the world. That meant fans in the 190 countries outside the U.S. and Canada who watched the series would have to wait months into 2022 when Paramount+ would start rolling out across the world… in just an estimated 45 countries. Fans were understandably furious, enough for Viacom to scramble after a week of backlash and start offering the fourth season of Discovery as premium video on-demand offerings or through alternative streaming platforms. But it’s still not an ideal situation, and only a temporary fix to the grumbling international fans will make when they’re pushed to subscribe to Paramount+ next year.
