“With Star Trek, which is the family jewels, I rather it be a few months late than not late and suffer for it,” Moonves said about Wednesday’s announcement that the Bryan Fuller- and Alex Kurtzman-EP’ed Star Trek: Discoverywill lift off on CBS All Access in May rather than January. “The producers came into my office and begged me,” he said of deciding to push back the Star Trek launch. “So we flipped their position on the dial in terms of our calendar,” the CBS boss added of The Good Wife spinoff and Discovery, for which Netflix paid the production costs in an international deal with CBS.
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Will the four month delay work in Star Trek: Discovery’s Season 2 renewal interests, or is the project already doomed to failure, no matter what Moonves says? Stay tuned…
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