Star Trek fans can rejoice after a week of major uncertainty: season 4 of Discovery has a new home, and a premiere date that's just around the corner.
Things were thrown into disarray for fans when, just two days before the US launch of season 4 on Paramount+ on November 19, it was announced that the show was being completely removed from Netflix worldwide. Without Paramount+ in the UK and many other territories until 2022, viewers were left wondering what the heck was going on.
Thankfully, season 4 is now going to premiere this Friday (November 26) on Pluto TV in the UK, as well as places like Spain, Italy and Germany, among others.
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Pluto TV, if you didn't know, is a free streaming service that doesn't require signing up to. It's ad-supported, and has a load of channels you can watch like regular broadcast TV, except they range from things like only showing classic episodes of Inspector Gadget and Baywatch, to 24/7 cat content. It's quite the mixture.
Discovery season 4 will premiere at 9pm on Friday on the ViacomCBS-owned service's Sci-Fi channel with the first two episodes, and it looks like they will be repeated on Saturday and Sunday nights at the same time.
However, Digital Spy understands that the episodes will not be available on-demand on Pluto service after they initially air.
Meanwhile, you'll be able to purchase the new episodes digitally following their airing on Pluto.
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Hugh Culber actor Wilson Cruz shared the big news on his Twitter, writing: "Here it is! We FOUGHT hard for this and @paramountplus worked round the clock to expedite this for our LOYAL international fans and I am so GRATEFUL!"
While the situation is a lot messier than it should be, we are sure fans are equally grateful about not having to wait until next year for new Discovery.
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