Star Trek: Discovery is doing so well on that Final Frontier, they’ve already been asked to stick around. CBS All Access has officially renewed Discovery for its second season, just six episodes into the series.
This is a relief for fans who had reason to fret over the show’s future; since it was announced that Star Trek: Discovery was only going to be available via CBS All Access, the network’s brand new streaming service, there was question of whether or not the series would pay off well enough to keep it around. But according to Marc DeBevoise, president and CEO at CBS Interactive, “In just six episodes, Star Trek: Discovery has driven subscriber growth, critical acclaim and huge global fan interest for the first premium version of this great franchise.”
Star Trek: Discovery‘s performance is strong enough that CBS has no problem renewing less than half a season in. Executive Producer Alex Kurtzman has already hinted that the creative team is prepared: “We have a…big idea that emerged mid- to late-season one for something we want to do for season two. That’s now become the spine of what we want to do for season two.”
Unfortunately, due to how time-consuming the show is create (each episode is worked on for several months), season two will likely not show up until early 2019. But it’s still coming back! So let’s focus on that.
[Via The Hollywood Reporter]
Woohoo!
I haven’t yet seen this whole season, of course, but I hope the show improves before they bring on a second season. I am very disappointed with it so far.
Here is hoping for a major retool. It isn’t really a surprise though; not only is there a huge amount of corporate ego tied up in this so that cancelling it would make a lot of high up people look foolish after spending so much time fighting to attempt to justify why it was made despite all the multitudinous flaws, but it is also the advertising for CBS All Access (which has even more corporate egos tied to it) and even though it is failing on all fronts it is still doing its job of advertising the All Access service. There is no such thing as bad publicity, and it is getting the All Access brand out there (albeit as the place not to watch Star Trek). But brightside, they might get embarrassed enough to retool it. Give it a bit more optimism, a bit brighter sets with more colour in them, and some better people as characters as a whole.
They already said from the start that the war was going to be only for the first season.
Early 2019 shows that those in charge have an excellent business model in place.