By Frazier Moore, Television Writer
NEW YORK (AP) --"Star Trek" is going boldly where it hasn't gone before with a brand-new edition of the sci-fi TV empire.
CBS Television Studios said Monday the "totally new" series will arrive in January 2017. But it will be available exclusively on CBS All Access, CBS' subscription streaming video service.
Only a preview episode will be aired, free of charge, on the broadcast network, CBS said.
CBS All Access, which costs $5.99 a month, already offers every episode of all previous "Star Trek" television series, along with series from CBS' current and past broadcast schedule. The new "Star Trek" will be the first original series developed specifically for U.S. audiences for the service.
The new "Star Trek" will introduce new characters in search of new worlds, CBS said. But no story or cast details were disclosed.
Executive-producing will be Alex Kurtzman, who co-wrote and -produced 2009's "Star Trek" feature and "Star Trek Into Darkness" in 2013. He is also an executive producer for CBS series "Scorpion," ''Limitless" and "Hawaii Five-O."
Conceived by Gene Roddenberry, the original "Star Trek" series debuted on NBC in September 1966 and aired for three seasons while igniting a revolution in science fiction storytelling.
That series has since spawned multiple follow-up TV series, most recently "Enterprise" (2001-2005), and films, including the feature "Star Trek Beyond," which is set to be released next summer. It is unrelated to the forthcoming TV series, CBS noted.
Sean “Diddy” Combs seeks bail, citing changed circumstances and new evidence
Sean "Diddy" Combs filed a new request for bail on Friday, saying changed circumstances, along with new evidence, mean the hip-hop mogul should be allowed to prepare for a May trial from outside jail.
Lawyers for Combs filed the request in Manhattan federal court, where his previous requests for bail have been rejected by two judges since his September arrest on racketeering conspiracy and sex trafficking charges.
He has pleaded not guilty to charges that he coerced and abused women for years with help from a network of associates and employees, while silencing victims through blackmail and violence, including kidnapping, arson and physical beatings.
He has been awaiting a May 5 trial at a federal detention facility in Brooklyn.
In their new court filing, lawyers for Combs say they are proposing a "far more robust" bail package that would subject the entertainer to strict around-the-clock security monitoring and near-total restrictions on his ability to contact anyone but his lawyers. But the amount of money they attach to the package remains $50 million, as they proposed before.
They also cite new evidence that they say "makes clear that the government's case is thin." That evidence, the lawyers said, refutes the government's claim that a March 2016 video showing Combs physically assaulting his then-girlfriend occurred during a coerced "freak off," a sexually driven event described in the indictment against Combs.
They wrote that the encounter was instead "a minutes-long glimpse into a complex but decade-long consensual relationship" between Combs and his then-girlfriend.
The lawyers argued that the jail conditions Combs is experiencing at the Metropolitan Detention Center in Brooklyn violate his constitutional... Read More