I hope Netflix burys Paramount.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

That is all.

[EX500rider]

1. Not me, I hope Paramount gets Warner Bros...I pay for Paramount+ for all the new & old Star Trek

Warner would add a bunch of good movies too

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. They can't win a fair bidding war and need TSF to put his thumb on the scale.

[EX500rider]

3. Didn't they bid more then Netflix's?

As of February 26, 2026, the Warner Bros. Discovery (WBD) board deemed a new $111 billion all-cash offer from Paramount (specifically Paramount-Skydance) as "superior" to the previous deal with Netflix.
Paramount's bid is valued at $31 per share for the entire company, surpassing Netflix's earlier $83 billion offer for select assets.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

9. Ted Sarandos was at the White House today and left disappointed.

Trump wanted him to fire Susan Rice if he wanted the deal to go forward.

[Wiz Imp]

5. Sheesh. Who cares if 90% of the media is controlled by 1 super right wing company...

"I'll get Star Trek and more movies out of it."

[EX500rider]

10. I get my news from the BBC and more content is appreciated when you have limited entertainment funds

I also use Reuters & Deutsche Welle, don't think they are in danger of being bought out.

[Wiz Imp]

20. Wow. Since you get your news fom the BBC, who cares that 1 person owns 90% of the media in the US

You're amazing. If you can't see what a disaster for democracy in the US this would be, then I don't know what you're even doing on DU.

[AK Grizz]

33. D

I T T O

[Intractable]

7. After today's episode of Academy, I'm ready to throw it all out.

What a suck fest!

Whose idea was it to have them sing and dance on Strange New Worlds?

I watched ST:IV for the first time in twenty years. The picture quality on Paramount can be quite poor.

My Paramount subscription ends in two days. It wil not be renewed for a long time.

[EX500rider]

13. Starfleet Academy Eps 6 was some of the best Star Trek IMO ymmv

[Intractable]

14. Episode 6 was great. Episode 8 is a boring space opera for teanagers.

I'm not sticking it out for eps 9 and 10. I'll catch them next year.

When Paramount makes the remaining 16 episodes of SNW, then I'll resubscribe, and then I can be disappointed with that.

[EX500rider]

16. haven't seen it yet, save it for fri night, if Tilly is back I will love it...but I liked Discovery

[Intractable]

17. I disliked the latter three years of Discovery. They were pretty good up until the move to the future.

You'll get your time with Tilly. Did nothing for me.

[EX500rider]

19. Loved her as "Captain Killy" lol

[Intractable]

22. Yes. Cap't Killy was fun. But, in general, there were too many trips to the negative universe.

It was never my favorite plot device. I didn't like it DS9.

In general, I find most episodes where the actors play alternative versions of their characters to be just silly.

[EX500rider]

18. Voyager had a fair amount of opera...but I liked ST:V also..and Picard!

[Intractable]

23. Picard season 2 scraped the bottom.

Season 3 was unexpectedly great!

I didn't hate ST:V like a lot of other people did.

[BeyondGeography]

35. You support Bari Weiss and David Ellison

so you can watch Star Trek?

Walk with pride, friend.

[lame54]

36. They're the assholes who killed Colbert...

On Trump's orders
Censorship cowards
Now they will be stronger than ever

[Initech]

4. David Ellison can go shove his precious billions where it doesn't shine.

[newdeal2]

6. This is a bad outcome

Especially for HBO and CNN. Goodbye John Oliver and any “woke” shows.

[Lovie777]

8. Then I can watch Star Trek(s).........................

at this point I refuse since it was bought out by the evil ones.

[Intractable]

11. I'd rather see Star Trek go to Netflix than be on Paramount. For sure!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. How is HBO and CNN in the hands of Trump's BFF an improvement?

Look what he did to 60 Minutes and the CBS Nightly News.

[Wiz Imp]

21. Because you'll get Star Trek!

[DemocratSinceBirth]

25. I suspect HBO viewers skew left.

If Ellison does to it what he's doing to the CBS News division he'll lose a lot of subscribers.

[Wiz Imp]

26. Regardless of the politics, 1 person controlling so much of the US media would be a disaster

[hunter]

24. Netflix won't have to do anything.

Ellison and Company will suck the life and money out of Warner Bros., cut up the corpse with a chain saw, and flush the remains down the toilet.

I'm glad I don't work for Warner Bros.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

27. What happens to CNN?

[hunter]

30. What happened to AOL?

[Lovie777]

29. Yea, but Wildcards tv show from Canada............

ugh. Love anything Star Trek, but no re Paramount...............

WB, CNN is a backfire, both ratings suck.

There are other alternatives.

Oh WB will do a lot of spots event programs.

[Bettie]

28. Me too

having Ellison control even more of our media is just asking for trouble.

[OC375]

31. Nero, nice fiddle playing

We’re rooting for and rating teams in the corporate wars. Just look at us. We are all the problem.

[AK Grizz]

34. Or,

is trump our problem? I'm gonna go with he is all of our problems.

[hunter]

37. Some giant corporations are more toxic than others.

It's fair to ask which corporation is more likely to bury content and fire employees for entirely political reasons.

Personally, I'm not in the game. My wife and I watch less than seven hours of television a week, none of it news or opinion, and nothing with advertising.

We don't have cable, satellite, or broadcast television. Our television plays one or two no-advertising streaming services and DVDs. That's all it does.

If television disappeared entirely we'd read more books.

I do worry about how these "corporate wars" will affect the political climate in the U.S.A..

[EX500rider]

38. Yes, apparently being owned by primarily Vanguard Group Inc. and BlackRock Inc makes Neflix OK!! lol

[OC375]

40. 401k Winner By Default

Vanguard runs like half the 401k and IRA business in the country. That impacts me, and all my plans. I might have to change.

Of course Vanguard is OK!!!

Go Team Vanguard!

[Joinfortmill]

32. Yup

[iemanja]

39. Not happening

They've backed out of the bid. https://www.nytimes.com/

[DemocratSinceBirth]

41. They will compete and Netflix will win.

[iemanja]

42. Netflix already withdrew

Read the article. It's on the front page, upper left.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

43. Subscriber Battle

I'm referring to the battle for subscribers. Netflix has 325 million subscribers. Paramount has 211 million subscribers. Heck, Squid Game had 262 milliion followers.