Paramount Plus has ordered a fourth season of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, and said the fifth season of Star Trek: Lower Decks will be the final one. Season five of Lower Decks comes out in the fall.  

“It has been incredibly rewarding to continue to build the Star Trek universe, and we're so grateful to Secret Hideout and our immensely talented casts and producers,” said Jeff Grossman, executive VP, programming, Paramount Plus. “Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has found the perfect blend of action, adventure and humor, and we're elated to announce another season ahead of our season three premiere. Similarly, Star Trek: Lower Decks has brought the laughs with an ample amount of heart to the franchise across its four seasons. We can’t wait for audiences to see what is in store for the crew of the U.S.S. Cerritos in this final season.”

Strange New Worlds is based on the years Capt. Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise. The cast includes Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn. 

Lower Decks is an animated comedy about the support crew on the not so important U.S.S. Cerritos. Tawny Newsome and Jack Quaid are in the voice cast. 

“Lower Decks and Strange New Worlds are integral to the Star Trek franchise, expanding the boundaries of the universe and exploring new and exciting worlds,” said David Stapf, president, CBS Studios. “We are extraordinarily proud of both series as they honor the legacy of what Gene Roddenberry created almost 60 years ago. We are so grateful to work with Secret Hideout, [executive producers] Alex Kurtzman, Mike McMahan, Akiva Goldsman, Henry Alonso Myers and the cast, crews and artists who craft these important and entertaining stories for fans around the world.”

Star Trek: Discovery debuted its fifth and final season on Paramount Plus April 4.   

Hulu and ABC were among several streaming services and networks nominated for multiple 2024 NAMIC Vision Awards, the diversity organization announced Monday (April 8).

Hulu, led by multiple nominations for its comedy series The Other Black Girl, and ABC, with nods for comedy series Abbott Elementary and drama series Grey’s Anatomy, drew the most nominations for Vision Awards, which honor excellence in diverse programming. Other distributors garnering multiple nominations include ESPN, Disney Plus, Prime Video, Starz, CNN, PBS, Paramount Plus, HGTV, Peacock and OWN.  

Along with ABC’s Abbott Elementary and The Wonder Years, shows up for best comedy series include Bob Hearts Abishola on CBS, Prime Video’s Harlem, and Hulu/Onyx Collective’s UnPrisoned. In the best drama series category, Paramount Plus’s Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will battle ABC’s Grey’s Anatomy and The Rookie; NBC’s Found; and Apple TV Plus’s Swagger for top honors.

ESPN nearly swept the sports category by securing four of the category's five nominations. Also, Max’s Sesame Street will look to repeat in the children’s programming category.

NAMIC will announce the Vision Awards winners in May. 

2024 NAMIC Vision Awards Nominees

Animation

• Firebuds: Bayani Cookout, Disney Junior
• Jessica’s Big Little World, Cartoon Network
• Marvel’s Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Hair Today, Gone Tomorrow, Disney Plus
• The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder: Juneteenth, Disney Plus
• Young Love, HBO/Max

Best Performance - Comedy

• Ashleigh Murray, The Other Black Girl (Hulu/Onyx)
• Brittany Adebumola, The Other Black Girl (Hulu/Onyx)
• Emeraude Toubia, With Love (Prime Video)
• Justina Machado, The Horror of Dolores Roach (Prime Video)
• Marque Richardson, UnPrisoned, (Hulu/Onyx)

Best Performance - Drama

• Forest Whitaker, Godfather of Harlem (MGM Plus)
• John Leguizamo, The Power (Prime Video)
• Mia Isaac, Black Cake (Hulu)
• Michole Briana White, BMF (Starz)
• Russell Hornsby: BMF (Starz)

Children’s

• American Born Chinese: What Guy Are You, Disney Plus
• Monster High 2, Nickelodeon
• Saturdays: Going For Gold! Disney Channel
• Sesame Street, Max
• The Crossover: Huddle Up, Disney Plus

Comedy

• Abbott Elementary, ABC
• Bob Hearts Abishola, CBS
• Harlem, Prime Video
• The Wonder Years, ABC
• UnPrisoned, Hulu/Onyx

Digital Media – Short Form

• Brave Spaces, PBS
• Ritual, PBS
• Stories from the Stage: Living With Cancer, World
• “Voices of the Civil Rights Movement,” Interview with Gwendolyn Harris Middlebrooks, “Power of Unity: The Atlanta Student Movement,” Comcast NBCUniversal
• Women of the Earth, PBS

Documentary

• 761st Tank Battalion: The Original Black Panthers, History
• Black+Iconic: Style Gods, BET
• Dear Mama, FX
• See It Loud: The History of Black Television, CNN Original Series and The SpringHill Co.
• Sound of the Police, Hulu/ABC News Studios

Drama

• Found, NBC
• Grey’s Anatomy, ABC
• Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, Paramount Plus
• Swagger, Apple TV Plus
• The Rookie, ABC

Lifestyle

• Bargain Block, HGTV
• City Eats: Atlanta, AspireTV
• Married to Real Estate, HGTV
• Searching for Soul Food, Hulu/Onyx
• Taste the Nation with Padma Lakshmi, Hulu

News/Informational

• ABC News Live Prime with Linsey Davis: “Shiloh: Our Inheritance is Washing Away,” ABC News
• America in Black, BET
• “Going Home: The War in Sudan” from The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, CNN Worldwide
• “Homebirth Journey: Saving Black Moms” from The Whole Story with Anderson Cooper, CNN Worldwide 
• National Day of Racial Healing Town Halls, MSNBC, Telemundo

Original Movie or Special

• Black Girl Missing, Lifetime
• Lawmen: Bass Reeves, Paramount Plus
• Mary J. Blige’s Real Love, Lifetime
• Shooting Stars, Peacock
• Quiz Lady, 20th Century Studios / Hulu

Reality

• CritterFixers: Country Vets: Ready, Vet, Go!, Nat Geo Wild
• Doubling Down with the Derricos, TLC
• Project Greenlight, HBO/Max
• Bet on Black (Season 3), REVOLT x Target
• The Parent Test, ABC

Reality – Social Issues

• Like a Girl, Fuse TV
• OWN Spotlight: Oprah, Courtney B. Vance & Dr. Robin, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
• RapCaviar Presents, Hulu
• The 1619 Project, Hulu
• Un Cafecito Sin Nervios, Vme Media 

Sports

• E60: “Mayra,” ESPN
• Generations, NBC Sports
• In Her Shoes: Wang Shuang, ESPN/ESPN Plus
• SportsCenter: “Bigger Than Us,” ESPN
• SC Featured: “The Lone Wolves,” ESPN

Variety/Talk Show

• Hart to Heart, Peacock
• Jimmy Kimmel Live! ABC
• OWN Spotlight: Oprah & Kerry Washington, OWN: Oprah Winfrey Network
• The View, ABC News
• Turning the Tables with Robin Roberts: Community, Disney Plus

Reviews for season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds are quite positive. With Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn in the cast, it premieres on Paramount Plus June 15. 

The new season sees the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise, under the command of Capt. Christopher Pike, explore some uncharted territories and encounter new life and civilizations. “The crew will embark on personal journeys that will continue to test their resolve and redefine their destinies. Facing friends and enemies both new and familiar, their adventures will unfold in surprising ways never seen before on any Star Trek series,” Paramount Plus said.

The first episode, titled “The Broken Circle,” is available on premiere day. 

USA Today said, “The Trek series that might be under your radar (or starship sensors) is also the one that best embraces the tone, values and spirit of the original series, as an invigorating, exhilarating and most of all fun take on a voyage among the stars. That series is Strange New Worlds, which returns for its second season on Paramount Plus Thursday.”

USA Today gave it 3½ stars out of 4. The review headline calls it “The Trek We All Deserve.”

Mount plays Pike and Romijn portrays Una Chin-Riley. Ethan Peck plays Spock and Jess Bush is Christine Chapel. 

Season two also features the return of special guest star Paul Wesley as James T. Kirk and Carol Kane comes on board in a recurring role as Pelia.

A review on NPR said, “Fans get a wide range of compelling new stories, often in an adventure-of-the-week format, with lots of eye-popping special effects and cool nods to the history of these beloved characters.”

IndieWire digs the new season too: “The result, in Strange New Worlds Season 2, is a number of instant-classic episodes — three, by my reckoning, out of the first six screened for critics — that’ll stand alongside some of the best the franchise has ever given us over the past 60 years. They achieve this by being singularly focused on character first, with each episode putting one of the ensemble in focus in just [the] way the [producer Rick] Bermanverse Trek of the ‘90s did.”

Paramount Plus is betting big on Star Trek. Series include Star Trek: Discovery, Lower Decks, Star Trek: Picard and Star Trek: Prodigy. 

CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment produce Strange New Worlds. Akiva Goldsman and Henry Alonso Myers are co-showrunners. Alex Kurtzman, Goldsman, Jenny Lumet, Myers, Aaron Baiers, Heather Kadin, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth are executive producers.

Season one came out in May 2022.

Starz’s time-traveling drama series Outlander and AMC’s latest The Walking Dead spinoff headline the list of new and returning shows debuting on cable and streamers this week. 

Outlander returns June 16 for its seventh season for more adventures between time traveler Claire Fraser (Caitriona Balfe) and her love Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan). Starz will air the first half of the 16-episode season this summer, with the second half debuting in 2024, according to the network.

AMC will continue its expansion of The Walking Dead Universe with a new drama series The Walking Dead: Dead City, debuting July 18. The six-episode series features two characters from the original series, Negan (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) and Maggie (Lauren Cohan) and they come together to survive a zombie-infested Manhattan in search of Maggie’s son, according to AMC. Also starring in the series is Gaius Charles, Mahina Napoleon and Zeljko Ivanek.

Here are video trailers and premiere dates for several shows debuting during the week of June 12 to June 18. For some videos, viewer discretion is advised:

June 14, The Full Monty (comedy), Hulu

June 15, Black Mirror (returning series), Netflix

June 15, Jagged Mind (horror movie), Hulu

June 15, Project Runway, (returning series), Bravo

June 15, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (returning series), Paramount Plus

June 16, Extraction 2 (action movie), Netflix

June 16, Stan Lee (documentary), Disney Plus

June 18, The Righteous Gemstones, (returning series), HBO

Paramount Plus will continue its voyage with the Star Trek franchise, renewing its live-action series Stark Trek: Strange New Worlds and animated show Lower Decks for new seasons debuting this summer, as well as its animated series Prodigy for a winter return. 

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will return for its second season on June 15, according to the streaming service. The series will continue to follow the exploits of U.S.S. Enterprise Capt. Christopher Pike, played by Anson Mount. Also starring in the series are Rebecca Romijin, Ethan Peck, Jess Bush, Christina Chong and Celia Rose Gooding.

Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman, Jenny Lumet, Alonso Myers, Aaron Baiers, Heather Kadin, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry and Trevor Roth serve as executive producers for Strange News Worlds, according to Paramount Plus.

Animated series Star Trek: Lower Decks will return for season its fourth season this summer. According to the streamer, the fourth season features an unknown force destroying starships and threatening galactic peace. Starring in the series are Dawnn Lewis, Jerry O’Connell, Fred Tatasciore and Gillian Vigman.

The series is executive produced by Kurtzman, Roddenberry, Trevor Roth, Katie Krentz, Mike McMahan and Aaron Baiers.

Kids-targeted animated series Star Trek: Prodigy will debut its second season this winter. The series is executive produced by Kurtzman, Kadin, Baiers, Roddenberry and Roth, the streamer said. ■   

Paramount Plus celebrated Star Trek Day on September 8 with a batch of announcements, including season three of Star Trek: Picard arriving on the network February 16. Star Patrick Stewart introduced a trailer from the third season, which will be the final one. There will be ten episodes. 

Star Trek Day is held September 8, as that is the day Star Trek premiered back in 1966. The event happened in Los Angeles and was live-streamed. 

Picard cast members Stewart, Jeri Ryan and Michelle Hurd were at the event. Stewart plays Jean-Luc Picard, as he did on Star Trek: The Next Generation. 

The series is produced by CBS Studios in association with Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment.

Paramount Plus also debuted a clip from season two of Star Trek: Strange New Worlds at the event. Carol Kane will join season two as Pelia. “Highly educated and intelligent, this engineer suffers no fools,” according to Paramount Plus. “Pelia solves problems calmly and brusquely, thanks to her many years of experience.” 

Rebecca Romijn, Celia Rose Gooding and Jess Bush are in the cast. Strange New Worlds  is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the U.S.S. Enterprise. 

Strange New Worlds is produced by CBS Studios, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. 

Animated kids show Star Trek: Prodigy has its mid-season return October 27 on Paramount Plus. A trailer, showing the U.S.S. Protostar crew and character Murf as he completes his “metamurfosis,” was shared. 

Billy Campbell is joining the voice cast. Brett Gray, Kate Mulgrew and Ella Purnell are in the cast. 

Prodigy follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future. These six young outcasts know nothing about the ship they have commandeered, but get to know Starfleet and the ideals it represents.

Star Trek: Prodigy is produced by CBS’ Eye Animation Productions, Nickelodeon Animation, Secret Hideout and Roddenberry Entertainment. 

Paramount Plus also released a sneak peek of a scene from animated comedy Star Trek: Lower Decks. Mike McMahan created the series. Season three began August 25. Star Trek: Discovery cast member Wilson Cruz offered a behind-the-scenes tour of the set. 

Sonequa Martin-Green, Doug Jones  and Anthony Rapp are also in the Discovery cast. ■

When Netflix announced on April 19 that the streaming service lost approximately 200,000 subscribers in the first quarter and is expecting to lose another two million subscribers in the second quarter the immediate question was why? After all it’s been 10 years since Netflix lost subscribers during a quarter. Global broadband issues, ending service in Russia and account sharing were given as possible reasons for the drop. But arguably, the most influential factor is Netflix’s competition. Apple TV Plus, Disney Plus, Peacock, HBO Max, Discovery Plus and Paramount Plus all launched in the last three years. And after some growing pains they are finally giving Netflix a run for their money. Evidence for this argument can be found in this week’s to stream video offerings. HBO Max has The Staircase, based on the successful eponymously titled documentary series. Apple TV Plus has season two of Tehran featuring Glenn Close. Peacock has the highly anticipated season two of Girls5eva from executive producer Tina Fey. Hulu has Candy starring Jessica Biel while Paramount Plus will stream Star Trek: Strange New Worlds -- called the best new "Star Trek" series since Next Generation by one critic. Paramount Plus is also debuting the docuseries Never Seen Again, featuring Tyler Perry. Even ad-supported players like Amazon Freevee and The Roku Channel have enticing originals coming out this week: Bosch: Legacy (Amazon Freevee) and from the Quibi catalog title Mamas (Roku Channel). Here's what's upstream:

The Staircase (HBO Max, May 5)

This eight-episode series is based on filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade's 2004 docuseries about novelist Michael Peterson, played in the scripted series by Colin Firth, who was accused of murdering his wife, Kathleen (Toni Collette). The doc was one of the first true-crime nonfiction series that immediately captivated viewers. (An additional five episodes were added to The Staircase doc, which Netflix released as a 13-episode series in 2018.) While it appeared that Kathleen died in 2001 after falling down the stairs at the couple’s home, severe scalp lacerations made police question her husband, Michael who maintains his innocence to this day. Despite a trial, a retrial, and a bizarre theory suggesting the death was triggered by an owl attack, how Kathleen died has remained a mystery for over 20 years. So far, the series has scored an aggregated 90% on Rotten Tomatoes. “The Staircase is exceptionally smart television, an examination of truth, guilt, and self-delusion that crackles with ideas and great performances. It continually shows that the how is more important than the what in storytelling. In this series a seemingly simple glance, or an innocuous exchange, can pack a hidden world of meaning,” wrote The San Francisco Chronicles’ Chris Vognar. Three episodes will appear on HBO Max on May 4. New episodes will be released weekly.

The Pentaverate (Netflix, May 5)

Mike Myers' six-episode comedy series asks the question, What if a secret society of five men — aka "The Pentaverate" — has been working to influence world events for the greater good since the Black Plague of 1347? Myers plays Ken Scarborough, a Canadian journalist who is determined to expose the Pentaverate. In all, the SNL alumnus plays eight characters in the limited series, including a New England conspiracy theorist, a far-right radio host, The Pentaverate’s oldest and highest-ranking member, a former media mogul and ex-Russian oligarch, a former rock-n-roll manager, and a tech genius. If anyone can take on numerous alter egos, it’s Austin Powers. Ken Jeong, Keegan-Michael Key, Debi Mazar, Richard McCabe and Lydia West also star. Rob Lowe and Maria Menounos will make special appearances, and Jeremy Irons narrates the series.

Star Trek: Strange New Worlds (Paramount Plus, May 5)

This latest incarnation of the iconic science fiction series follows Captain Christopher Pike (Anson Mount), Number One (Rebecca Romijn) and Science Officer Spock (Ethan Peck) in the decade before Captain James T. Kirk boarded the USS Enterprise. Technically it’s a spin-off of Star Trek: Discovery and a prequel to the original show, which first aired in 1966. Recently, Paramount Plus renewed the 10-episode series for a second season, which suggests they're confident that audiences will take to Season 1. Thus far television critics have. The show has scored an aggregated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. “Smart, addictive and flat out fun, Strange New Worlds is the best Star Trek series since The Next Generation and acts as a faithful love letter to the original” wrote Paste Magazine’s Terry Terrones.

Girls5eva – Season 2 (Peacock, May 5)

When the first season of this musical comedy series premiered a year ago, it became one of Peacock’s first breakout hits. About a one-hit-wonder girl group from the 1990’s who reunite 20 years later to give their singing careers a second shot, Girls5eva stars Sara Bareilles, Renée Elise Goldsberry, Paula Pell, and Busy Philipps. Tina Fey serves as an executive producer on the show, which was created by Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt writer Meredith Scardino. The second season will see the group, who got noticed after a performance at the Jingle Ball concert, making their first album on their own terms. Veteran comedy actors Amy Sedaris and Neil Flynn will guest star. Season 1 scored an aggregated 98% on Rotten Tomatoes. “Girls5eva is a sophisticated joke-delivery machine that will hold special appeal to culture obsessives, and more evidence that NBCUniversal’s small-but-mighty streamer Peacock punches above its weight,” wrote Variety’s Daniel D’Addario.

Tehran – Season 2 (Apple TV Plus, May 6)

The first season of this Hebrew- and Persian-language geopolitical spy-thriller focused on Tamar Rabinyan (Niv Sultan), a Mossad agent who goes undercover on a top-secret mission in Iran’s capital city Tehran to sabotage the country’s nuclear facilities. The Israeli-produced show, co-created by Fauda writer Moshe Zonder, was a hit with critics, with Season 1 scoring an aggregated 94% on Rotten Tomatoes. Apple liked the series so much that it bought the international rights and made the show the streaming services’ first non-English language series. The second season of the eight-episode series features Glenn Close as Marjan Montazeri, a British woman residing in Tehran. Close joins Sultan and returning cast members Shaun Toub and Shervin Alenabi. The first two episodes will stream on May 6, followed by new weekly installments.

Bosch: Legacy (Amazon Freevee, May 6)

To the great disappointment of many, the Amazon Prime Video series Bosch was cancelled after seven seasons in 2021. But that announcement was quickly followed by news that Amazon's free-to-consumer, ad-supported Freevee (formerly IMBd TV) was planning a spinoff about the LAPD detective Harry Bosch (Titus Welliver). But don’t expect Bosch: Legacy to be exactly Bosch: Season 8. Freevee’s Bosch  is still abrasive, committed to justice and cool to authority, but he’s turned in his badge to be a private investigator. The series focuses on Bosch contending with his new life. It’s uncharted territory for the former homicide detective, who also has to come to terms with his daughter, Maddie (Madison Lintz) following in her father’s footsteps and becoming a rookie patrol officer. Mimi Rogers returns as attorney Honey Chandler, but instead of being an adversary she becomes Bosch’s client and ally. Indeed, Bosh's very underpinnings are coming undone, as evidenced by the earthquake damage done to his swanky Hollywood Hills overlook.The last season of Bosch, which streamed in June 2021, scored at aggregated 100% on Rotten Tomatoes. Freevee has already renewed Bosch: Legacy for a second season.

Mamas (Roku Channel, May 6)

Narrated by Connie Britton and Zoë Saldaña, this documentary nature series is Roku's latest offering culled from the Quibi catalog. The 14 short-form episodes ranging from 6-8 minutes follow matriarchs of the animal kingdom. Each episode highlights how mothers of species including grizzly bears, hummingbirds, yellow baboons, cheetahs, lions, praying mantis and hyenas all go to great lengths to protect their young. The series proves that every species, including humans, share the same motherly instinct to love and provide for their young.  

Candy (Hulu, May 9)

This five-part limited series is based on the true story of Candy Montgomery, a seemingly normal, church-going housewife who murdered her best friend with an axe in 1980. Minus the murder weapon, this series starring Jessica Biel as Candy, sounds eerily similar to Hulu’s The Thing About Pam, which debuted in March. Hollywood has taken a liking to small-town, friendly wives and mothers with a penchant for murder. Meanwhile, Elizabeth Olsen and Jesse Plemons are starring in David E. Kelley’s own version Candy Montgomery story, Love and Death, which is set for release on HBO Max later this year. 

Never Seen Again (Paramount Plus, May 10)

Each episode of this documentary series opens with a 30-second anecdote from a person who is the last to see someone who went missing. Tyler Perry is part of the first episode about a Black man and a Mexican immigrant, who after being put into the back of a police car were never seen again. Each episode tells the story of the missing person and then attempts to piece together why and how they disappeared. Viewers are encouraged to join the search and “help the families find closure by contacting police departments and Crime Stoppers.” It all sounds very similar to Robert Stack’s iconic Unsolved Mysteries, which was on the air for 14 years and never disappointed. 

Operation Mincemeat (Netflix, May 11)

This World War II drama is based on Ben McIntyre’s eponymous novel about British forces successfully disguising the body of a deceased homeless man as a Major in the Royal Marines in order to outwit the Nazis.  Fun fact: James Bond creator Ian Fleming, a Lieutenant Commander at the time, took part in planning the deception. Directed by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) the film stars Colin Firth and Matthew Macfadyen (Succession).The movie scored an aggregated 89% on Rotten Tomatoes. “Though occasionally undone by its Sunday-teatime tendencies, this is a spirited and gently entertaining slice of wartime espionage, with sharp, wry performances from the ensemble cast,” wrote Empire Magazine’s John Nugent.

Paramount Plus looks to explore new worlds according to the official video trailer for its new series Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, which debuts on the streamer May 5.

The 10-episode series is based on the years Captain Christopher Pike manned the helm of the U.S.S. Enterprise prior to Captain Kirk and the original Star Trek series. Star Trek: Strange New Worlds will follow Pike and his crew as they explore new worlds around the galaxy, said  the streamer.  

The series stars Anson Mount as Captain Christopher Pike, as well as Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck. Other series stars include Jess Bush, Christina Chong, Celia Rose Gooding, Melissa Navia and Babs Olusanmokun. 

Executive producers for Star Trek: Strange New Worlds include Akiva Goldsman, Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet, Alonso Myers, Heather Kadin, Frank Siracusa, John Weber, Rod Roddenberry, Trevor Roth and Aaron Baiers. ■

Paramount Plus has ordered a fifth season for Star Trek: Discovery, while Star Trek: Strange New Worlds has been renewed for a second season ahead of the series premiere May 5.

“Four years ago, we made a promise to grow Star Trek into something it had never been before, and thanks to the incredibly hard work done by our many talented showrunners, writers and directors, along with the extraordinary support of CBS Studios and Paramount Plus, we’re keeping our word,” said Alex Kurtzman, architect and executive producer, Star Trek. “Now our current shows are set up for the future as we work to build Trek’s next phase of programming for years to come.”

Season four of Star Trek: Discovery returns February 10. Star Trek: Picard starts season two on Paramount Plus March 3.

Among the animated Star Trek shows on Paramount Plus, Star Trek: Lower Decks returns with season three in summer 2022. The network has ordered a fourth season. Season one of Star Trek: Prodigy returned January 6. ■

CBS All-Access Friday announced the development on a new live-action series based on the iconic Star Trek sci-fi franchise, the streaming service said Friday.  

The new series, Star Trek-Strange New Worlds,follows current CBS-All Access series Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard, and will feature iconic Star Trek characters Spock, Captain Pike and Number One played by Ethan Peck, Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn, respectively, said the streaming service. 

The new series will follow the characters, which were introduced during the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, said the service.

“Fans fell in love with Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck’s portrayals of these iconic characters when they were first introduced on Star Trek: Discovery last season,” said Julie McNamara, executive VP and head of programming for CBS All Access in a statement. “This new series will be a perfect complement to the franchise, bringing a whole new perspective and series of adventures to Star Trek.”

Also in development at CBS All Access is an animated series, Star Trek: Lower Decks and a Section 31-based series starring Michelle Yeoh. 

CBS All-Access Friday announced the development on a new live-action series based on the iconic Star Trek sci-fi franchise, the streaming service said Friday.  

The series, Star Trek: Strange New Worlds, follows current CBS-All Access series Star Trek: Discovery and Star Trek: Picard, and will feature iconic Star Trek characters Spock, Captain Pike and Number One played by Ethan Peck, Anson Mount and Rebecca Romijn, respectively, said the streaming service. 

The new series will follow the characters, which were introduced during the second season of Star Trek: Discovery, as they explore new worlds around the galaxy in the decade before Captain Kirk boarded the U.S.S. Enterprise, said the service.

“Fans fell in love with Anson Mount, Rebecca Romijn and Ethan Peck’s portrayals of these iconic characters when they were first introduced on Star Trek: Discovery last season,” said Julie McNamara, Executive VP and Head of Programming for CBS All Access in a statement. “This new series will be a perfect complement to the franchise, bringing a whole new perspective and series of adventures to Star Trek."

Also in development at CBS All Access is an animated series, Star Trek: Lower Decks and a Section 31-based series starring Michelle Yeoh.