New 'Star Trek' TV Series Planned for 2017

[Vandal]

Loosely timed to the franchise's 50th anniversary next fall, Kurtzman's as-yet-untitled new chapter has been picked up straight to series at CBS and is already scheduled for a blow-out television premiere in January 2017. From there, subsequent episodes will air on the network's VOD platform, CBS All Access.

More here.

[silverscreenselect]

This is CBS' effort to get into the original digital programming game. They aren't part of Hulu, so they have their own channel all to themselves, but they've stocked it with lots of older episodes of both recent and vintage series (all the old Twilight Zone, Mission Impossible, various Star Trek series, and Hawaii 5-0 episodes). This however gives them a very valuable carrot to dangle to get people to subscribe to their channel.

[Bob78164]

This is CBS' effort to get into the original digital programming game. They aren't part of Hulu, so they have their own channel all to themselves, but they've stocked it with lots of older episodes of both recent and vintage series (all the old Twilight Zone, Mission Impossible, various Star Trek series, and Hawaii 5-0 episodes). This however gives them a very valuable carrot to dangle to get people to subscribe to their channel.

So the new series won't be on their over-the-air broadcast signal? --Bob

[mrkelley23]

This is CBS' effort to get into the original digital programming game. They aren't part of Hulu, so they have their own channel all to themselves, but they've stocked it with lots of older episodes of both recent and vintage series (all the old Twilight Zone, Mission Impossible, various Star Trek series, and Hawaii 5-0 episodes). This however gives them a very valuable carrot to dangle to get people to subscribe to their channel.

So the new series won't be on their over-the-air broadcast signal? --Bob

The article I read is not quite clear, but it sounds like perhaps first-run episodes would appear on the over-the-air broadcast channel, but that on-demand and repeat viewings would have to be done over the streaming service. But don't quote me on that.

[mrkelley23]

This article makes it appear that only the premiere episode will be on broadcast, then it will go exclusively to the subscription service.