New TV series?

[Brolan]

I think it’s all but inevitable that Paramount will want to get a new (reboot) TV series on the air as soon as possible. They will want to strike while the iron is hot and capitalize on Trek's new popularity.

I don't see the movie actors doing TV so it will have to be another ship and crew.

What do you think of this? Good idea or bad? Too soon for new series?

 

[nx1701g]

They won't go with a new series as long as they think they have a new movie franchise. They'd be worried about oversaturation.

 

[RAMA]

Logic seems to suggest starting a new series while the movie is hot. But I think they might wait till AFTER the sequel to do a new series.

RAMA

 

[TheBrew]

I honestly would like to see a limited series to bridge to the next movie. Maybe something more BBC in scope (as in it is a limited run series of 13 episodes).

 

[Zeppster]

If there's a new series it'll probably be after the next movie but I hope it expands on the TOS era instead of going into the future.

 

[Roshi]

I don't think it would be a good idea. TV viewing habits are changing, attention span last a few episodes and woosh, canceled! And even a good team of writers cannot beat the fact that Trek already had 716 different episodes...

 

[T'Paul]

I think they should just bring back Enterprise. I loved all that World War II crap.

 

[MichaelStivic]

Actually, the Paramount that produced this movie is exclusively in the movie business and they might look at a TV series as a potential threat to the success of future movies due to giving the fans enough to satisfy their Star Trek fix.

CBS Paramount Television separated from the movie producing arm of Paramount so it would be up to the CBS TV studio to decide that they could make money off a new TV series and it would be entirely within their rights to do it. CBS actually owns Star Trek now even though Paramount still produces the movies. And, of course, the grand-daddy of them all is Viacom. But where would CBS send a Star Trek series? It probably wouldn't do the kind of CSI numbers that the major networks expect and can ANY show succeed on The CW? Syndication has pretty much died and Sci-Fi (SyFy?) never remains committed to anything.

So I don't think the prospects for a new series are great even though I personally would rather have a continuing Star Trek series on TV, even if there were no Trek at the movies. TV is able to delve deeper into more interesting issues and characterization. A DS9 style Star Trek show set concurrent with the new movie timeframe would be my first choice, but I hear Bryan Fuller (of Voyager and Pushing Daisies) has some sort of idea for a new show set on a Constitution class starship in the TOS era.

I think it’s all but inevitable that Paramount will want to get a new (reboot) TV series on the air as soon as possible. They will want to strike while the iron is hot and capitalize on Trek's new popularity.

I don't see the movie actors doing TV so it will have to be another ship and crew.

What do you think of this? Good idea or bad? Too soon for new series?

 

[MvRojo]

I really think it's a bad idea. Sci-fi is doing well in theatres, but pretty much every genre show is failing on network TV, with the exception of "Fringe" and that's because it's almost a hyrid mystery/procedural. There's also no network that would work for Trek right now (and sci-fi in general).

And introducing another cast for a TV show crew would just lead to what happened in the 90's with people seeing Trek everywhere and slowly retreating from it since they don't want to be overwhelmed.

 

[Brolan]

I'm going watching for a press release from Paramount in the next few weeks. If they want to move fast they will announce they are working a new series soon.

 

[TheBrew]

I really think it's a bad idea. Sci-fi is doing well in theatres, but pretty much every genre show is failing on network TV, with the exception of "Fringe" and that's because it's almost a hyrid mystery/procedural. There's also no network that would work for Trek right now (and sci-fi in general).

And introducing another cast for a TV show crew would just lead to what happened in the 90's with people seeing Trek everywhere and slowly retreating from it since they don't want to be overwhelmed.

That's why I think a limited series would work well... it would keep interest high without saturating the market. And I would like to see it as a different crew in the same period... you could have different people from the "main" crew show up as guest, but keep them mostly for the next movie.

 

[What's his face]

I say, but after the second movie.

 

[NiteTrek]

I think it’s all but inevitable that Paramount will want to get a new (reboot) TV series on the air as soon as possible.

No freaking way. Finish off the current trilogy before even thinking about a new TV series. Keep the fans hungry!

 

[MichaelStivic]

I'm going watching for a press release from Paramount in the next few weeks. If they want to move fast they will announce they are working a new series soon.

Would Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman want to write/produce a Star Trek TV series? Would J.J. Abrams be the new Rick Berman with primary decision making on Star Trek productions? Would he bring in Bryan Fuller or Manny Coto?

And, of course, the biggest question is, what network would want it? Science Fiction doesn't last long on TV these days. If there were a place for it where it could succeed that would be great. I would guess either The CW or SciFi would be the place for it. But could a new TV show hurt Star Trek more than help it? Even if it's good. Like DS9 was excellent but people in large numbers wouldn't watch. Dumbed down Trek (Voyager and Enterprise S1-S3) also weren't able to bring in viewers. So what hope would there be for Trek on TV other than actually bringing the new movie cast onto the small screen?

 

[J Archer]

No freaking way. Finish off the current trilogy

What trilogy

Would he bring in Bryan Fuller or Manny Coto?

Dear God I hope not

 

[Reliant]

I rather they not do any new shows for a while. I think 18 years of Star Trek, back to back, to back, to back was enough for a while. I would not mind one on SCI-FI channel in the future, but just make sure Rick Berman does not get his hands on it, or let Paramount try to dumb down the show like it did with Voyager's later seasons and all of Enterprise.

 

[Overbound]

I think the more likely possibility is that CBS create or license someone to create another cartoon. Kids may get back into Star Trek because of this film and I could see CBS trying to capitalize on that and the fact that the Clone Wars is doing so well. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they made a Cartoon show around the same time they release the next movie.

 

[NiteTrek]

No freaking way. Finish off the current trilogy

What trilogy

Well, the actors have options for 3 films. Providing they do well at the box office, the next film get's the OK. I think a sequel has already been green-lighted. If it does well, then the third film will be made.

After that, the cast will have to re-negotiate contracts for future films.

 

[J Archer]

Well, the actors have options for 3 films. Providing they do well at the box office, the next film get's the OK. I think a sequel has already been green-lighted. If it does well, then the third film will be made.

After that, the cast will have to re-negotiate contracts for future films.

Ah.

I think the more likely possibility is that CBS create or license someone to create another cartoon. Kids may get back into Star Trek because of this film and I could see CBS trying to capitalize on that and the fact that the Clone Wars is doing so well. I wouldn't be at all surprised if they made a Cartoon show around the same time they release the next movie.

As long as it isn't anything like the SW thing, personally I think that stuff looks cheap & nasty.

 

[Brolan]

I'm going watching for a press release from Paramount in the next few weeks. If they want to move fast they will announce they are working a new series soon.

Would Roberto Orci and Alex Kurtzman want to write/produce a Star Trek TV series? Would J.J. Abrams be the new Rick Berman with primary decision making on Star Trek productions? Would he bring in Bryan Fuller or Manny Coto?

And, of course, the biggest question is, what network would want it? Science Fiction doesn't last long on TV these days. If there were a place for it where it could succeed that would be great. I would guess either The CW or SciFi would be the place for it. But could a new TV show hurt Star Trek more than help it? Even if it's good. Like DS9 was excellent but people in large numbers wouldn't watch. Dumbed down Trek (Voyager and Enterprise S1-S3) also weren't able to bring in viewers. So what hope would there be for Trek on TV other than actually bringing the new movie cast onto the small screen?

Those are really good questions. I don't know if JJ would be interested in running the new franchise, but it would have to be him, or someone with his new viewpoint on Trek to do it.

As for which network it would show on, it could even be a major network. With major network viewership declining it may have enough pull to make it on one of them.