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CBS All Access Is Changing Its Name

CBS All Access Is Changing Its Name

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After spending some time apart, CBS/Paramount and Viacom got remarried in a lavish ceremony last year. Now there’s a new/old boss in charge….and what does every entertainment conglomerate want these days, more than anything? Their own successful streaming service, of course. Only one problem: CBS sort of already has that, in the form of CBS All Access. How is that a problem? Because it’s not big ENOUGH to speak in the same breath as Netflix, Hulu or Disney+. Viacom is following the latter example and giving the service a rebrand under the wholly original name of….Paramount+. As many have already pointed out, despite being one of the biggest movie studios in the world, the Paramount label doesn’t carry the same heft these days that a name like Disney does, so when people see Paramount+, it will be unclear what they’re getting, aside from Star Trek. That’s probably why Paramount wants you to know they’re working on five new shows, announced today. Unfortunately none of them will hold much appeal to

Our First Good Glimpse At Star Trek: Lower Decks

Our First Good Glimpse At Star Trek: Lower Decks

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We were complaining two weeks ago that Star Trek: Lower Decks was a month away and we still hadn’t seen a trailer for it. Looks like today was the day we got one. Star Trek: Lower Decks brings the members of Starfleet into the medium of animation for the first time since Filmation did it back in the 70s. But it doesn’t follow anyone of high rank or importance…it concerns the crew of the fleet’s LEAST important Starship, the U.S.S. Cerritos — and even then, only the folks that work in its lower decks. Ensign Mariner (played by Tawny Newsome), Ensign Boimler (played by Jack Quaid), Ensign Rutherford (voiced by Eugene Cordero) and Ensign Tendi (voiced by Noël Wells) are stuck doing the grunt work that no one else wants to degrade themselves with. The actual act of saving the day falls to the legitimate crew of the Cerritos’ bridge — Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis), Commander Jack Ransom (Jerry O’Connell), Lieutenant Shaxs (Fred Tatasciore) and Dr. T’Ana (Gillian Vigman).

Star Trek: Lower Decks Will Premiere August 6

Star Trek: Lower Decks Will Premiere August 6

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Had enough New Star Trek yet? CBS will tell you when you’ve had enough! Yet another Trek-iverse series is set to premiere this summer, though it looks and feels very different from all that’s come before it. Star Trek: Lower Decks brings the members of Starfleet into the medium of animation for the first time since Filmation did it back in the 70s. But it doesn’t follow anyone important…it concerns the crew of the fleet’s LEAST important Starship, the U.S.S. Cerritos — and even then, only the folks that work in its lower decks. Ensign Mariner (played by Tawny Newsome), Ensign Boimler (played by Jack Quaid), Ensign Rutherford (voiced by Eugene Cordero) and Ensign Tendi (voiced by Noël Wells) are stuck doing the grunt work that no one else wants to degrade themselves with. Stuff happens around this crew, but they have little to do with it. The actual act of saving the day falls to the legitimate crew of the Cerritos’ bridge — Captain Carol Freeman (Dawnn Lewis), Commander

Star Trek Enters Strange New Worlds On CBS All Access

Star Trek Enters Strange New Worlds On CBS All Access

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Star Trek has proven to be a profitable niche for CBS All Access. Whatever your opinion might be on the quality of the shows they’ve produced so far, there’s no denying the franchise has needed a new home for a long time, and thanks to streaming it has an owner willing to help it nurture and grow again. So far CBS All Access has produced two Trek shows — Discovery and Picard. Both have new seasons under production, and two more Treks no one has seen yet are in the wings: an untitled series starring Michelle Yeoh, and an animated satiricial series called “Lower Decks.” Now you can add an unprecedented FIFTH simultaneous Star Trek series to the pile: CBS announced Strange New Worlds this week. The show is a spinoff of Star Trek Discovery and focuses on three of its characters: Anson Mount’s Captain Christopher Pike, Rebecca Romijn’s Number One and Ethan Peck’s Spock, shortly before Captain Kirk joins the Enterprise. Our biggest question: will Discovery be eventually cancelled

Viacom And CBS Announce Huge Streaming Project

Viacom And CBS Announce Huge Streaming Project

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You may have heard that, recently, CBS and its former parent company Viacom got back together after their ugly 2000s divorce. What made them believe they could make a second go at coupleship? Perhaps it’s the whole “streaming wars” thing. The newly reformed ViacomCBS, as one of its first announcements, says it is looking into pooling all its properties — CBS, Paramount Pictures, Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, Comedy Central, and even that free PlutoTV thing, which you didn’t know was a Viacom property until now — into one mega monolith that they can charge mega moolah for. They’re calling it a “‘House of Brands’ product,” but they’ll probably come up with a better name. You might be thinking, “Isn’t CBS All Access their entry in the streaming wars? And isn’t it doing fine?” CBS All Access was how small-time CBS did business. ViacomCBS bulks up to giant size, and kicks stuff around like Godzilla on Ghidora. It’s a new ballgame! However, getting the family solidly together is going to be a

CBS All Access Is Adapting Stephen King’s The Stand

CBS All Access Is Adapting Stephen King’s The Stand

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Stephen King’s The Stand has had a tumultuous ride through Hollywood. The book has been in print since 1978, and during ALL THAT TIME, one person or another has been trying to make a movie out of it. The big problem is that The Stand is one of King’s hugest books, and fitting the entire story into a two-hour sit would require a lot to be cut out or rewritten. This may be why the only adaption of The Stand to ever see realization as a finished product was the 1994 miniseries aired by ABC. Told in six parts, they were able to fit most of the novel in there, but you know by now how heavily mocked ABC’s 90s adaptions of King novels are. Someone’s gotta do it better. The latest attempt at adapting The Stand has been revealed, and it’s not a movie this time either….it’s an ongoing series CBS is greenlighting for its All Access service. No one is more enthusiastic than King: “I’m excited and so

A Star Trek Animated Comedy? Make It So

A Star Trek Animated Comedy? Make It So

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CBS has been a bit more daring with the content of its All Access streaming service — although it’s still stodgy ol’ CBS, so not TOO daring. At least they’re willing to monkey around with their valuable Star Trek brand to the point where they’d approve something like this. Its name is “Lower Decks,” and it’s the second-ever Star Trek cartoon (the first aired on NBC in 1973, and was a straight adaption of the Kirk series with the original stars supplying their voices). This cartoon, however, won’t be following a hotshot starship captain….instead, it’ll focus on the lives behind the scenes, the unsung nobodies who keep everything running. Mike McMahan, who previously wrote for Rick & Morty, pitched the show to CBS execs with this line: “I want to do a show about the people who put the yellow cartridge in the food replicator so a banana can come out the other end.” Producer Alex Kurtzman couldn’t be happier about McMahan’s credentials. “His cat’s name is Riker. His son’s

Logic Demands We Show You The Next Spock

Logic Demands We Show You The Next Spock

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Dr. Spock is arguably the most iconic Star Trek character of all time, with his pointy ears, Sam Donaldson eyebrows, and biological devotion to cold rationality. The Vulcan’s shoes aren’t easy to fill, especially considering how synonymous Leonard Nimoy was in the role. So much so that when a replacement Spock was finally cast — Zachary Quinto in JJ Abrams’ rebooted cinematic Trek universe — the original Spock appeared anyway, explained as a dimension-hopping accident. Nimoy would get to play his most famous character two more times before ascending to Vulcan Heaven, finally necessitating the recasting of another Spock. Today Paramount and CBS announced Spock #3 has at last been chosen. This Spock is meant to appear on Star Trek Discovery, which takes place before the original series, so he’ll have to be younger. Enter Ethan Peck, grandson of Gregory Peck. “Who?” you might say, even after we explained his lineage. Yeah, he hasn’t had a fruitful acting career so far. he was in the “10 Things I Hate About

Patrick Stewart Will Reprise The Role Of Picard

Patrick Stewart Will Reprise The Role Of Picard

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Trekkies jumped for joy last weekend as Paramount announced Patrick Stewart is returning to the role that made him famous — Jean-Luc Picard, former captain of the Enterprise — in a yet-to-be-titled Star Trek TV series! “I look forward to working with our brilliant creative as we endeavor to bring a fresh, unexpected and pertinent story to life,” said Stewart in a released statement. “It is an unexpected but delightful surprise to find myself excited and invigorated to be returning to Jean-Luc Picard and to explore new dimensions within him.” Stewart no longer has to play talking piles of poop in animated movies…it’s finally back to the days of dignity! And where do you suppose he might turn up? You might be thinking “If I had to guess, I’d say this is meant for that annoying CBS All Access service they want me to pay for!” You would be right. So you don’t have a CBS All Access subscription….well, neither do most people your age. The CBS brand is kind

Star Trek Discovery Has A Solid Release Date

Star Trek Discovery Has A Solid Release Date

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CBS’s Star Trek Discovery has been hit with repeated delays. If the original schedule had stayed on track, we would have seen the first episode six months ago, but for unclear reasons, the premiere date was pushed to May and then to the ambiguous “fall.” It’s ambiguous no longer: today CBS came out with a solid release date that we don’t expect them to change this time. The voyage begins Sunday, September 24. As originally planned, the first episode of Star Trek Discovery will air on the network itself. It’ll air from 8:30 to 9:30 PM, and immediately following, both the first and second episodes will go live on CBS All Access, the streaming service where the remainder of the first season will call its home. You won’t get all the episodes at once. There will be a new episode each Sunday until November 5, at which point Discovery will take some time off until January 2018. Reportedly the break is to allow for post-production to be completed on the

First Full Trailer For Star Trek Discovery Is Discovered

First Full Trailer For Star Trek Discovery Is Discovered

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During CBS’s Upfront presentation this week, one of the big reveals was the first actual look anyone’s gotten at the long-in-development Star Trek Discovery, aka the first attempt in years to revitalize the Trek brand on the small screen. It takes place ten years before the events of the original series and stars The Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin-Green. CBS was gracious enough to put the trailer that the press saw online. It’s getting mixed reactions. See what you think…. Did you like it? And if you do, did you like it enough to pay for it? Because that’s what CBS wants you to do; Discovery will be part of their CBS All Access streaming service. Only the pilot episode will air on the network. There will also be an aftershow available called — what else — Talking Trek. Personally, I don’t think aftershows really work unless they air on TV, right after a new episode. In this instance you could watch the NEXT new episode or you could watch people

Star Trek Discovery Delayed Yet Again

Star Trek Discovery Delayed Yet Again

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CBS, as far as we know, is developing a new Star Trek series — the first since the franchise exited television back in the early 2000’s. But it’s anyone’s guess when we’ll actually get to see this alleged Star Trek Discovery, the first original program for the CBS All Access streaming service. Originally the show was to already have debuted — a January 2017 release date was on the original schedule. That date was changed to May 2017, then two months ago it slid down to “sometime this fall.” Now CBS Interactive president Marc DeBevoise says he’s given up on determining when Star Trek Discovery will be ready. As he told Vulture, “It’s going great, I’ve actually been up there [to the set]. It is, you know, phenomenal. It is huge. And we’re very excited about the content, the creators, the actors, all coming together. As you said, we’re not tied to any specific release date. It’ll be there when we’re ready to do it, and when we feel it’s

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