CBS Pushes Back 'Star Trek: Discovery' Premiere by Four Months
The upcoming, highly anticipated return to TV for the Star Trek franchise, helmed by Bryan Fuller, has been pushed back. Originally set for a January, 2017 premiere, the show won't arrive on CBS Al Access until May.
Meanwhile, the follow-up, original series to The Good Wife, has been brought up from its Spring debut, now set to premiere in February.
The 13-episode Star Trek series will premiere its first episode on CBS' network channel, now in May, before switching over exclusively to the streaming service in the U.S. Netflix has streaming access to the series for 188 countries.
The delay for Discovery is reportedly at the request of the creative team behind the project, which has three complete scripts and a complete first season map so far. The show has now begun casting and and the producers have asked for more time to use in all three phases of production.
“Bringing Star Trek back to television carries a responsibility and mission: to connect fans and newcomers alike to the series that has fed our imaginations since childhood,” Kurtzman and Fuller said in a statement.
“We aim to dream big and deliver, and that means making sure the demands of physical and post-production for a show that takes place entirely in space, and the need to meet an air date, don’t result in compromised quality.
"Before heading into production, we evaluated these realities with our partners at CBS and they agreed: Star Trek deserves the very best, and these extra few months will help us achieve a vision we can all be proud of.”
Source: Deadline
