Star Trek s expanding universe on Paramount+ won t be following the same playbook as Marvel Studios. Star Trek Universe overall executive producer Alex Kurtzman and Paramount+ programming chief Julie McNamara make that pretty clear in a new interview. Star Trek was a central focus of ViacomCBS [.]
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Among titles announced at Paramount’s TCA day today, new scripted series based on such classic films as “Flashdance”, “Fatal Attraction”, “The Italian Job”, “The Parallax View” and “Love Story”. In addition, there’s a reboot of “Criminal Minds”, a small-screen “Halo” series and another “Star Trek” offering.
The “
Fatal Attraction” redo will be spearheaded by “Dirty John” duo Alexandra Cunningham and Kevin Hynes, who will pen the script and exec produce alongside Amblin Television’s Justin Falvey and Darryl Frank. Stanley Jaffe and Sherry Lansing, who produced the 1987 feature, will also exec produce.
A script to series order, it’s a redo of the Michael Douglas-Glenn Close thriller but told through the lens of modern attitudes when it comes to strong women, personality disorders, victim shaming and coercive control.
Paramount Plus has announced that Star Trek: Prodigy, the animated kids series originally planned for Nickelodeon, is headed for the new streaming service, which is a relaunched version of CBS All Access. It joins the current line of Discovery, Lower Decks, Picard, and two other already announced shows.
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Paramount Plus, the brand new shiny replacement for CBS All Access, is launching in the United States on March 4. In a special event on Wednesday, ViacomCBS announced more details on the new streaming service.
The streaming service isn’t launching with a ton of new content, but there will be many upcoming shows based on existing content, such as a Grease prequel about the
Pink Ladies and a reimagined
Love Story. The service’s launch exclusives will include the delayed Spongebob movie,
Sponge on the Run. Also announced are
The Offer, a 10 episode miniseries about the making of
The Paramount+ streaming service is to feature more than 30,000 episodes, 2,500 movie titles and over 1,000 live sporting events, plus around-the-clock news coverage, with highlights such as a Frasier revival and Grease prequel series.