Star Trek: Prodigy to depart Paramount+

The streamer has canceled the CG-animated series, but its production team will complete work on the upcoming second season and try to find it a new home.
June 26, 2023

Paramount+ has canceled Star Trek: Prodigy (pictured) and will remove the CG-animated kids series from its programming lineup soon.

The streamer greenlit a second season right after the toon’s 2021 launch, and CBS Eye Animation plans to complete production and shop Prodigy to a new buyer, said writer/executive producer Aaron Waltke in a Twitter post from last week. Creators/showrunners Dan and Kevin Hageman have echoed this commitment in their own joint Twitter statement.

The first Star Trek project to target kids, Prodigy centers around a squad of young aliens on an abandoned starship called the USS Protostar. CBS and Nick Animation Studios are producing the series with LA-based studios Secret Hideout, Roddenberry Entertainment and Brothers Hageman Productions. Paramount+ still seems interested in creating Star Trek content for young audiences, given that it just ordered teen series Star Trek: Starfleet Academy in March.

The streamer has also pulled the plug on YA musical series Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies. This live-actioner serves as a prequel to the 1978 movie Grease, following four misfit high school students who form their own girl gang.

Paramount+ is just the latest SVOD platform to cut titles as part of broader cost-saving measures, following in the footsteps of major players like Disney+ (which removed originals Willow and The Mysterious Benedict Society earlier this month) and Max (which axed several kids and animation titles last year).

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