Posted on 11/02/2017 3:01:50 PM PDT by EdnaMode
CBS boss Leslie Moonves said during the company’s earnings call with investors today that it is rebooting the iconic TV series The Twilight Zone to stream on CBS All Access, its SVOD service that features the new Star Trek: Discovery.
The streaming service has been ramping up its original series auspices, already airing Season 1 of The Good Wife spinoff The Good Fight starring Christine Baranksi. Moonves said CBS was aiming for the same kind of leveraging of classic TV as Star Trek: Discovery, which spurred strong signups when it premiered and has already been renewed for a second season.
He delivered the brief news flash as part of a discussion of the strides made by CBS All Access. He gave no details on the creative team for a new Twilight Zone, or when new episodes would be delivered.
CBS All Access already offers the original anthology series created by Rod Serling, which aired from 1959-64 on CBS. It won a pair of Emmys for Serling’s writing, spawned a feature film and a pair of short-lived TV revivals. In 2013, the WGA ranked The Twilight Zone No.3 on its list of 101 Best Written TV Shows of All Time.
The streaming service dominated both the company’s introductory remarks and the questions from analysts. Moonves positioned the Twilight Zone reboot as the latest example of the company’s strategy to produce its own shows and feed an increasing number of them to the streaming service.
“The good news is, the bet is paying off,” he said. Asked about how the company determines the right content for All Access, Moonves said: “The programming kind of needs to be more premium than it would be on CBS. … It needs to be more specialized, needs to stand out.” All Access has drawn an audience that is 20 years younger than the average viewer of CBS, he added.
Netflix’s entry as international distribution partner on Star Trek: Discovery funded a “large part” of that series, Moonves said, admitting it was “expensive.” The notion of an international partner on the show was not addressed on the call.
For CBS, it’s a long game, Moonves said. “There will continue to be a widening gap between the haves and have-nots, and clearly we are on the right side of that divide,” he said.
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“The Twilight Zone: Discovery”. . . .
Serling was also a hypocrite who wanted TV to use expletives because that's "how people talked" while wanting to outlaw ethnic slurs . . . because people shouldn't talk like that.
LOL. Perfect!
I wouldn’t be surprised if Gilligan’s Island is next.
Star Trek: Discovery is absolutely horrible.
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Enjoy reading the comments! 99% negative.
They will make the new Twilight Zone terrible too.
They cannot write good scripts.
At least they are hiding it on cbs access!
Yeah exactly. Network TV seems more focused on “diversity” than anything else.
The reboot of that series in 1995 was absolutely awesome........
Yes,right after F Troop and My Mother the Car.
No originality at all in Hollywood. The main problem with a Twilight Zone reboot is that the creative engine behind it is long dead. Rod Serling was a genius. He was not only host but writer and heart and soul of the show. Why not do a reboot of The Outer Limits or some of the other knockoffs from the time.
So was The Twilight Zone.
Some of that Dimension X stuff isn’t half bad.
I bought the CD soundtrack for the 80s show.
Now he's considered a genius artist for stuff that the highbrows looked down on back then.
I was 14 when the 1985 reboot aired, so I don’t remember most of the episodes.
I recently happened to watch one of the ‘85 episodes on Youtube. I believe it was named “A Little Piece and Quiet”.
That episode was superb and was worthy of the original Twilight Zone episodes. The story started out humorous but had a terrifying ending, complete with a nuclear attack.
Ahem.
You mean “F->M Troop”, and “My Mother, the trans-automotive” . . .
It will bomb. Imagine, every week a clean slate to tell another story with a liberal moral. All the ghosts, aliens and bad guys will espouse conservative points of view.
Ol’e Reboot Frisby, yup that’s what they call me.....
I’ll have to watch that one again.
Disclaimer: Each new episode will contain at least five homosexual characters.
That was pretty much the case with the original series. At least the ones written by Serling.
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