Much has been made about SFA’s less than stellar ranking on Paramount+ in the United States and the early US Nielsen rankings (from the first two weeks in January).
This Flix Patrol global roll up of the show’s rankings across streamers provides some helpful insights. Keep in mind that Flix Patrol looks at overall rankings, not just recent releases or originals.
- Starfleet Academy is doing very well outside of North America;
- SFA is doing well on SkyShowtime across many countries
- globally, SFA is doing very well on Amazon channels.
- the streamer where SFA is performing worst is Paramount+ in the United States, which has arguably targeted a red state US market since the ViacomCBS merger, to the detriment of other demographics.
No idea if the executives at Paramount are paying attention to anything beyond Paramount+ or the US market, but my assessment is that SFA provides genuine diversification and is successfully reaching a global audience in a way that Star Trek shows historically have not.
usernamefactory@lemmy.ca 2 days ago
I don’t think I could guess where this is going even if I had expertise in reading numbers like this. No matter how good SFA’s raw numbers are, it may get cancelled anyway simply because the new ownership wants to take the franchise in a different direction. On the other hand, no matter how bad SFA’s raw numbers are, if the numbers it does have are from desirable new demographics it might be a good enough business case for them to keep it around. 🤷♀️
It sounds like we ought to hear if Kurtzman’s contract is renewed or not fairly soon, which seems like it would be a pretty strong indicator one way or the other.