Official Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 1 Thread

[malbaker86]

Sucks that none of the Raising Kanan series in season 1, besides Kanan and Juke, make it to the OG Power timeline

 

[Ohene]

prolly over thinking but kanan seem too short and stocky to frame unique like that

 

[Ohene]

this nikka Symph really made himself an accessory to murder for Raq. Cant spell Symphony without the Symp

 

[FlyBoy718]

New York brehs, hit me with some perspective, How Bad is it to shoot/kill a police officer in new york and how bad is it to shoot/kill a police officer as a black man in new york?

One of the worst things you can do. The heat that brings is crazy. Pappy Mason and the Bebos were indicted for killing a cop named Edward Byrne back in '88(three years b4 the year this show is set in). The Tactical Narcotics Team(TNT), which they mentioned in the season finale, was actually created in response to that pig getting wacked.
https://pix11.com/news/local-news/q...yrne-remembered-32-years-after-assassination/
Drug Crackdown Is Expanded to East Harlem (Published 1988)

 

[LieutenantDan]

Season 2 is confirmed to be about Breeze according to 50

Power Book III's 50 Cent Won't Rule Out Future Ghost and Tommy Appearances


By Mekeisha Madden Toby / September 27 2021, 3:19 PM PDT

Courtesy of Starz
Warning: This post contains spoilers from the Power Book III: Raising Kanan Season 1 finale.

Power Book III fans who caught the Starz drama’s Season 1 finale now know Kanan can’t trust anyone — not even his own mother Raq.

It’s a level of distrust and forced independence that clears the way for the titular character to strike out on his own sooner than expected after nearly killing Det. Howard. While it’s unlikely that Kanan’s protégés Ghost and Tommy would make an appearance in Season 2 because they’re so young (unless there is a major time jump), future seasons could easily introduce the two into Kanan’s world. It’s a move that could happen as early as the third season, says executive producer Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, who costarred as Kanan in the original Power.

“Power Book III could become as successful as Power itself,” Jackson ambitiously tells TVLine. “It’s up to the writers and the showrunner, but viewers should expect to meet Breeze by Season 2. He was Kanan’s partner and boss and more aggressive than anyone could hang with or handle. Breeze became Ghost and Tommy’s boss, and Ghost ended up killing Breeze before viewers got to meet him.”

Prior to the time James St. Patrick turned into Ghost, a nickname Breeze gave him, Kanan and Breeze turned James and Tommy into cold-hearted killers. And that’s how Ghost was able to take out Breeze and eventually double-cross Kanan.

Showing that transition would be entertaining to explore, Jackson says, despite Power creator Courtney Kemp’s staunch declaration that Ghost and Tommy don’t belong in the sequel series, which is set in New York’s Jamaica, Queens in the early 1990s. Introducing Breeze would also show that Raq and her brothers weren’t the only ones who raised Kanan.

Power Book III's 50 Cent Won't Rule Out Future Ghost and Tommy Appearances

 

[LieutenantDan]

Jon Feltheimer -- Chief Executive Officer

Thank you, Nilay, and good afternoon, everyone. Thank you for joining us. I'd like to begin with a few highlights from a strong financial quarter and then drill down in each of our businesses.

Turning to our individual businesses, it was a strong financial quarter for Starz, but like the rest of the industry, we were impacted by a reduction in at-home viewership; and importantly, a light content quarter, due to COVID driven production delays.

We continue to grow our base of international subscribers in the quarter, but domestic subscribers declined, a temporary drop that we have already reversed since the end of the quarter. In fact, two weeks after the quarter ended, Power Book III: Raising Kanan debut to the second biggest Starz original series premiere ever, driving over 800,000 global subscriber gross ads in the first week alone and an 80% spike in viewership on the app.

As a result, we are again growing our domestic over-the-top subscriber base, which is already back to the March quarter's record levels. And with our biggest and strongest Starz Original Series slate ever this year, with 12 scripted series compared to seven last year and a building cadence of five tent-pole Series over the next three quarters, we continue to expect Starz's global subscriber growth this year to outpace subscriber growth last year.

Our confidence is buttressed by a very strong slate that following Raising Kanan includes, wrestling drama Heels starring Stephen Amell and Alexander Ludwig, getting great early reviews; the second season of the hit series Power Book II: Ghost; the sixth season of fan-favorite Outlander; Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson's crime family drama BMF; the horror comedy Shining Vale, starring Courteney Cox; and the debut of Power Book IV: Force.

These will be followed next season by high-end properties such as, the Watergate drama Gaslit, starring Julia Roberts and Sean Penn; the John Wick Prequel, The Continental; and The Serpent Queen, based on the dark legend of Catherine de' Medici.

Internationally, subscriber growth continued, but was slowed by a light content quarter as well as the global reopening. Here again, we've seen a significant subscriber uptick with the international launch of Raising Kanan which along with Ghost, Run The World and The Girlfriend Experience proves that great programming for our core audiences in the United States attracts a global audience as well.

Combined with Lionsgate feature films and library titles that are driving our theatrical content offering and best in class third-party acquisitions of The Great, Gangs of London, and the International premiere of Dr. Death later this quarter, our best of global SVOD programming continues to set us apart as a home for original, adult, fiercely premium content, complimentary to every platform and a compelling value proposition for every bundle.

The next question will come from Steven Cahall with Wells Fargo. Please go ahead.

Steven Cahall -- Wells Fargo -- Analyst

Thanks. Maybe a couple for Jeff, so on Starz, could you just unpack that subscriber forecast a little bit about adding more subscribers this year than last. I know you have a big content pipeline coming in the rest of the fiscal year, it just seems like a lot of what we've seen in streaming is that the pandemic might have provided some pull forward. So just curious what gives you the confidence that, now that we're coming out of the pandemic you'll be able to have as strong a year for net ads, as you did last year?

And then, related on Starz International, how should we just think about segment profit for that segment this year? I think maybe you've talked about it on a profitability basis looking similar to last year, just didn't know if there was any update to that outlook. Thanks.

Jeffrey Hirsch -- President and Chief Executive Officer of Starz

Hey Steve. How are you? Yeah -- Great, as Jon and Jimmy talked in their remarks of the very light content quarter for us, we premiered two half hour comedies that were great shows that I think that coupled with the world opening back up, it was not our strongest quarter as we had guided on the last call.

But as they said also on their prepared remarks, we're very confident that this year will be stronger than last year. We're going from seven originals to 12 originals. We have five tent poles in the next three quarters that drive a large, large growth of subscriber acquisition. We also saw our churn at a historic low in this quarter.

So those two things coupled together give us great confidence, that we can -- we will accelerate growth this year, Kanan obviously premiered, as Jon said in his prepared remarks to huge numbers, huge viewership. And simply put, if Kanan was six weeks earlier, we will be having a different sequential conversation than we're having right now.

James W. Barge -- Chief Financial Officer

And on the segment profit portion of things Steven, yeah you're right, plus or minus in line with the prior year investment. And that's really based off the timing of content etc. We like what we're doing there. We like the market share we're capturing. We're leaning into it.

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[MJ Truth]

Yeah I heard about Boy George. He also posted on IG that he's gonna do a show on Fat Cat as well. I love drug dealer films and shows, but I don't want 50 to make it redundant. I think a better avenue is to make it an anthology. Like a season (or two) of 12-15 episodes on each real life dealer.

It’s already redundant lol, but he’s on fire with it. I think because of his music career 50 really sees the value in striking while the iron is hot.

 

[MJ Truth]

It low key hurts my heart that we still out here begging for approval and recognition.

 

[MJ Truth]

I’m not sure why there’s any discussion over the cliffhanger of knowing whether or not Howard says Kanan was the one who shot him.

Obviously he doesn’t do that, because if he did we wouldn’t have an adult Kanan in the OG Power.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

Not sure what to make of this season. I wonder how many seasons they’re tryna have before introducing Ghost and Tommy

 

[MJ Truth]

Sucks that none of the Raising Kanan series in season 1, besides Kanan and Juke, make it to the OG Power timeline

Doesn’t mean they don’t survive this series though.

By the OG Power timeline none of these characters would still be involved anyway. Kanan already had a fully grown son by that time.

 

[Peruvian Connect]

It’s already redundant lol, but he’s on fire with it. I think because of his music career 50 really sees the value in striking while the iron is hot.

He's not on fire. He catering to the same audience. People give TP flack for doing the same type of movies, but praising 50 for doing it. And TP is doing it at a much higher level.

 

[Mr Hate Coffee]

he might, he got the biggest bargaining chip in the universe now

how? They could just try to kill him again.

I know the writers are gonna make it so he doesn’t give up Kanan but it’s stupid. Raq tried to have him killed and frame Unique. He could blow that whole strategy up. And he should since he threatened to tell everyone Kanan was a cop’s kid before

 

[MJ Truth]

He's not on fire. He catering to the same audience. People give TP flack for doing the same type of movies, but praising 50 for doing it. And TP is doing it at a much higher level.

Tyler Perry was and has been on fire too though. His run is actually unprecedented. People just don’t like him or his content but I’ve supported dude forever now.

 

[malbaker86]

Doesn’t mean they don’t survive this series though.

By the OG Power timeline none of these characters would still be involved anyway. Kanan already had a fully grown son by that time.

true. I guess i'm just anxious to see how they get killed lol. I'm really interested in seeing how Famous gets gunned down.