The Twilight Zone wouldn’t be nearly as iconic as it is now without Rod Sterling guiding viewers in and setting up the mysterious sights and sounds of each story with his ominous introductions, but since Sterling has been dead for over 40 years, CBS’ new Twilight Zone reboot has had to face the impossible task of…
Welcome to a CBS-themed incarnation of Development Hell, the fiery pit into which we fling recent CBS-related developments in casting, distribution, and everything else that’s new and mildly interesting in the Boschian phantasmagoria of the entertainment industry.
Somewhere, up in black-and-white TV heaven, Rod Serling is puffing away on a Chesterfield and smiling. A reboot of his pioneering CBS sci-fi/horror series The Twilight Zone has been ordered to series at CBS All Access, Variety reports, with Get Out writer-director Jordan Peele among the core creative team. Peele will…
According to Deadline, Scream writer and The Following creator Kevin Williamson is heading to the CBS All Access streaming service with Tell Me A Story, a “psychological thriller” based on classic fairytales. However, rather than regular fairytales, these will be “dark and twisted” takes on them that will probably be…
You’re traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound, but of relentless corporate interests. A journey into a wondrous land where everything old is new again (or at least suitably repackaged). That’s the signpost up ahead: Your next stop, The Reboot Zone.
The road to CBS All Access was rocky for Star Trek: Discovery, which arrived nine months behind schedule when it debuted in September. The latest entry in the Star Trek franchise was supposed to launch CBS’ standalone streaming service, but ended up ceding that spot to The Good Fight after losing Bryan Fuller as its…
We learned a while ago that Star Trek: Discovery will take place 10 years before the events of The Original Series, and within the original Prime timeline (sorry, J.J. Abrams). Recent dispatches out of the Alpha Quadrant have concerned the Klingons, whose newly shorn appearance has baffled fans who wonder why anyone…
CBS is continuing to do its damndest to push its All Access streaming service as more than just “that place you go to see if the new Star Trek show is actually any good.” This afternoon at the TCAs, Marc DeBevoise, president of CBS Interactive, announced three new series that are being added to the site’s roster,…
The newest addition to the Star Trek franchise, Discovery, has set a course for a September premiere, which means it’s really happening now. With the first voyage now in sight, CBS has stepped up the promotional push, releasing photos of Jason Isaacs as the rather stiff-looking captain of the Discovery, as well as…
Despite early indications that the show would premiere early this year, Star Trek: Discovery has remained docked for much of 2017, as producers and network executives worked to ensure its quality before launch. With the first trailer now out, though, CBS is ready to engage, as Deadline reports Discovery will hit the…
On the heels of the first official cast photo, CBS has released the first trailer for Star Trek: Discovery, which establishes the relationship between First Officer Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) and Captain Philippa Georgiou (Michelle Yeoh). Things aren’t looking good for the Shenzhou, the ship led by…
As we’ve alluded to in some of today’s postings, it’s CBS’s turn to hawk its wares before advertisers in its upfronts presentation. The announcements and statements has ranged from the obvious to the obnoxious, which made the news of the first official photo of the Star Trek: Discovery cast all the more welcome. An…
Production on Star Trek: Discovery has been moving along at impulse speed, as the positive development news (Bryan Fuller’s on board!) has been paired with some bad (Bryan Fuller’s left the bridge). Accordingly, the launch date’s been nudged around for the last few months; the series was originally looking at a…
Now that the crew of Star Trek: Discovery has been recruited in full, it’s time for the CBS All Access show to start adding the colorful characters that will make space exploration fun (when not dangerous). First up is Rainn Wilson, whom Variety reports has joined the cast as the intergalactic scalawag, Harry Mudd.…
Though The Good Fight has only just begun—we’re halfway into the first season—CBS has already green-lit a second season, Variety reports. The Good Wife spin-off drew more than 7 million viewers in its broadcast premiere, but it’s also acquitting itself nicely on All Access, CBS’ streaming arm. CBS Interactive…
CBS’ highly anticipated Star Trek: Discovery streaming series has suffered some delays, but it sounds like the network is reasonably confident that it has at least narrowed down a window for when the show will premiere now. According to Variety, CBS’ Leslie Moonves announced at an investor conference that the series…
As its title suggests, The Good Fight interrogates what it means to be on the “right” side of things. Diane and Maia came to Reddick, Boseman, and Kolstad after having lost everything they knew. Barbara and Adrian are trying to figure out how to run a firm when algorithms are determining what’s a good case and what…
One of the earliest and most noticeable differences between The Good Fight and The Good Wife—other than the fact that everyone can say “fuck” now—is the spinoff series’ title sequence. The Good Wife kept things clean and simple with a mere title card. The Good Fight has a lengthy opening credits sequence scored by …
After yesterday’s possible fakeout—were those Klingons or not?—it’s nice to have some Star Trek: Discovery news that isn’t more speculation. Screenrant reports that the ship’s crew has just beamed up its chief medical officer Dr. Nambue, who will be played by 30 Rock’s Maulik Pancholy. What we don’t currently know is…
CBS and Paramount first set a course for Star Trek: Discovery in November 2015, and though that path hasn’t exactly been smooth—the series lost Bryan Fuller as showrunner a year later—it’s still been a fairly exciting ride. The cast, led by The Walking Dead’s Sonequa Martin Green, looks very promising. A recent…
