Star Trek Discovery Pulled from International Markets Days Before Season 4 Premiere

James Whitbrook, for Gizmodo:

Deadline reports that ViacomCBS has paid off the lucrative deal that brought Discovery to Netflix across the world outside of the U.S. and Canada four years ago, pulling the entire show from the platform at midnight tonight. The removal also means that Discovery’s fourth season, which was expected to begin airing weekly on Netflix starting this Friday, November 19—a day after it premieres on Paramount+ in the U.S. and on CTV’s Sci-Fi Channel in Canada—will now not air in international markets for at least a few months.

From the horse's mouth on Twitter^[1]:

TO OUR INTERNATIONAL
STAR TREK: DISCOVERY FANS

WE KNOW YOU ARE ANXIOUS TO HEAR OUR
PLANS FOR SEASON FOUR,
SO WE WANTED TO UPDATE YOU.

INTERNATIONALLY, THE UPCOMING SEASON
OF STAR TREK: DISCOVERY SEASON FOUR
WILL NOW PREMIERE EXCLUSIVELY WHERE
PARAMOUNT+ IS AVAILABLE IN EARLY 2022.

THIS MEANS THE NEW SEASON,
AND ALL PREVIOUS DISCOVERY SEASONS,
WILL BE AVAILABLE INTERNATIONALLY
IN 2022 AS PARAMOUNT+
EXPANDS GLOBALLY.

There are no current plans to launch Paramount+ in Singapore, or anywhere else in Asia.

Dick move, ViacomCBS. It absolutely won't lead to piracy.