Kelsey Grammer sounded curt this morning when he brusquely told a BBC Today program interviewer that he still supports Donald Trump but, according to his interviewer, this curtness doesn’t tell the full story.

Grammer’s interviewer Justin Webb said the Frasier star was “perfectly happy” to go on talking about his support for the former POTUS, “the Paramount+ PR team, less so.”

Grammer has previously expressed support for Trump – a relatively rare position for a TV and movie star to take – and he also used his BBC interview to back Roseanne Barr, another self-confessed Trump supporter.

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        Paramount Plus is so desperate to keep me as a customer that they keep giving me free months of service, without advertising. I just threaten to end my subscription and they’re all like, “Augh! Please come back! Look, you can have two more months on us… just don’t go!”

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          There’s nothing quite as pathetic as a massive corporation in tears begging you for your money.

          Have some fucking decency, you tried to rip me off every way from here to Saturn for decades, now you come begging for handouts? Maybe cut down on avocado toast and get a second job.

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          All the media companies wanted to be Netflix and so they invested heavily at the same time and flooded the market. Then wanted make more money so they added advertising. Now they ask why everyone left.

          Paramount+ invested in Star Trek but hasn’t really seen a return on investment. The draw of Netflix was a variety of content and no commercials.

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            I know that. They’re desperate for hits beyond Star Trek. The original plan was new Star Trek every week all year long. Now it’s no Star Trek for months at a time with one show ending (Discovery) and one animated show shuffled off to Netflix. That leaves Strange New Worlds and Lower Decks, and while they seem to be popular, it doesn’t seem to be translating into subscriptions and they don’t seem to have any other Trek shows in the pipeline.

            What else do they have? Reboots. A new Spongebob, a new Frasier, a new Beavis and Butthead. No one is drawn to those. And their one attempt at a big budget sci-fi epic that wasn’t Star Trek, Halo, was a complete flop.

            I subscribed to it for Star Trek but I couldn’t justify that any longer because I really wasn’t watching anything else.

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                Yeah I don’t understand why they don’t just sell the rights to Netflix or something I’m sure Netflix would buy the right if it was an option. They have had interest with Star Trek in the past but then there was a big falling out because CBS did it badly.

                They seem to have got a grip now.

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              To be fair the Beavis and Butthead reboot is excellent if you liked the original. I went in with low expectations and was very pleasantly surprised.

              That said, it will definitely not save Paramount.

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            I seriously have no idea why everyone was stupid enough to make their own version of netflix, and not expect the market to be flooded. The second Disney announced Disney plus, I knew that was the end of streaming and the return of piracy.

            The only streaming surface I use is Tubi because they have the most ethical business model, I watch their ads, they show me free movies and shows. They don’t double dip, and as long as they don’t, it will be the only site I don’t use Adblock on

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            Right but what will happen is the platforms without ads will now fall before the ones with ads and reinforce the idea that more ads = good for business