If the new film is successful, is a new TV series possible?

[Johnhead99]

I'm going to predict that if this film is even moderately successful, there will be a Trek related series of some kind, premiering no later than the 2010 fall television season.

I'd bet you all the money I have that this will not happen. Not that soon. Especially if they would want to have JJ Abrams attached to a series and I doubt he would do it right now. And even CBS as a huge corporation out for all the profit it could possibly make would realize that the last Star Trek television show was cancelled for low ratings and that the same kind of reimagining that went into the new film must also be invested into any kind of new television project.

I agree. I bet a sequal movie will come out first. Then, 2011-2013 a new series.

As for the new series, I am hoping it uses an episode arch type theme. Those were the best episodes of Trek in my opinion. Where everything goes together and things are not forgetten by season 3 which happened in season 1.

 

[Deks]

Well, if the movie is successful, then making a new Trek TV series is a possibility indeed ... although I wouldn't want to see it immediately after the movie.
Maybe in 2 to 4 years ... give them enough time to flesh out the idea properly and still allow for a period of time to pass after the movie has been released in order to avoid saturation.
Or they can simply continue with another movie or two for a period of next 4 to 5 years, after which a TV show would follow.

 

[Captain Randy Hall]

As spoken by my favorite first officer, "There are always ... possibilities."

Sorry if someone already posted this.

 

[caisson2delta]

I would also love a new series, but it is probably too soon. There is one thing that I have been wondering about, though. If the new movie does even moderately well and some sequels develop, what sort of changes do you think we will see in the ship? I am curious if this ship will show a refit, like they did in TMP. Perhaps it can be refitted to look more like what came before and appease some of the fans that dislike the new design so much.

 

[Red Ranger]

Well, I also doubt they will do a new TV show right away, but if they did, they should do a prequel right and focus it on Captain Pike, and make it a rollicking space adventure with a moral center. -- RR

 

[NickInABox]

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[Hawkeye_90]

I am not seeing a new series untill the company sees how trek is taken by the public. I don't think it would be an understatement to call the last trek series a failure with a horrible time slot. A new show with movie quality would be lagite, but I don't think it will happen for a minimum of 2 years.

 

[Warp Coil]

If the film is very successful, you can bet that the execs at CBS aren't going to ignore the fact that they own the rights to a hot property, and simply sit on it, solely to benefit it's sister division. Particularly when not exploiting such a property would deprive their own stockholders of almost certain profits.

In such a case, CBS would not only exploit that fact to their own benefit, but would do so as quickly as possible, so as to ride the coattails of the film's success, while that success was still fresh in the mind of the viewing public. (I know that if I were a stockholder, I'd expect no less, or there'd be Hell to pay.)

I'm going to predict that if this film is even moderately successful, there will be a Trek related series of some kind, premiering no later than the 2010 fall television season.

I find it hard to imagine CBS airing a new Trek series. Les Moonves doesn't seem to be a big fan of sci-fi. He'd rather have another crime drama or procedural than something like Star Trek.

 

[SFRabid]

If the first movie is a big success they will start on the next two movies for a total of three. If the second movie is a success I see someone working on a series at the same time the third movie is in the works. It would come out shortly after the third movie. Starting up a major SciFi series takes some time. Lots of sets and lots of CG to work on.

CBS could be the one with the series, or they could opt to sell that right to someone else hoping the the cash in hand would be bigger than the financial success.

 

[Eddie Roth]

Right, SFRabid, it could be done by someone else. Look at the 80s. Harve Bennett was in charge of the movie franchise and then they let Gene Roddenberry do a new TV show. The same GR who had previously been more or less booted from the movies because his TMP wasn't exactly what the studio considered profitable enough. (They also found it boring.)

Here's a scenario: JJ Abrams remains in charge of the film franchise and they bring back a previously booted former executive producer to launch a new TV series: Rick Berman!

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I just hope we don't have 'dueling reboots' between the film series and any new TV series that might come up. That would be bad.