Streaming Pullback Shrinks Franchises

Major streaming platforms and studios are cutting back on expensive, long‑running TV universes — even tentpole franchises like Star Trek — leading to production shutdowns, set demolitions, and no new projects greenlit. These pauses can outlast airing schedules (completed seasons still to premiere) but nonetheless remove cultural production capacity and signal risk aversion or strategy shifts at platforms. — If platforms are retrenching from expensive shared universes, that changes labor markets, licensing negotiations, and what kinds of long‑form cultural narratives survive in the public sphere.