The Live Feed is reporting that there’s a chance that Star Trek could be returning to TV at some point in the near future. The speculations stems from a couple of interesting bullet points
- The Star Trek movie releasing in May is filled with twenty-somethings
- CBS owns the TV rights to Star Trek
- CBS owns the CW - home of Gossip Girl, One Tree Hill, and other favorites of the under-25 set
- Heroes writer, Bryan Fuller, has said he wants to bring Star Trek back to TV and is talking to Star Trek movie director, JJ Abrams about the possibility. Abrams knows a think or two about creating hit shows - Lost, Fringe, etc.
So all of those things is leading to some theories about a Gossip Girl of sorts in space with a new iteration of Star Trek. Personally, I haven’t watched any Star Trek since The Next Generation went off the air many moons ago. And I can’t say that I would be too interested in seeing a Chuck Bass-like character sporting his red pants and annoying smirk on a Federation spaceship. But I’m obviously not the target market and you can’t ignore the fact that everything the CW and JJ Abrams touches these days is pure gold. So there could be something to the rumors.
From a TVLoop perspective, a new Star Trek would likely be very successful given the demographics of Facebook and social networks in general. CW shows have traditionally done very well:
- Gossip Girl - 396K users
- One Tree Hill - 455K users
- Supernatural - 101K users
Combine that with the fact that space-oriented shows have also done very well, and a combination of the two could be very interesting.
- Star Trek - 36K users
- Stargate - 41K users
- Battlestar Gallactica - 43K users
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