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Academy Award winner Michelle Yeoh is officially returning to Starfleet. Paramount+ has greenlit Star Trek: Section 31, an original movie for the streamer. Yeoh will reprise her role as Emperor Philippa Georgiou, a character she first played in Star Trek: Discovery‘s first season. Deadline…

Paramount+ has given a green light to a new chapter in the Star Trek universe. The streamer has handed a series order to Star Trek: Starfleet Academy, a project that we exclusively reported had been in development since last year, from Alex Kurtzman’s Secret Hideout, Roddenberry Entertainment and CBS…

The end is in sight for Star Trek: Discovery. Paramount+ said today that its longest-running original drama series will end with its upcoming fifth season, which will debut in early 2024. Leading up to the final season, Paramount+ will honor the show’s groundbreaking storytelling over its past four…

"Never a dull moment," proclaims Star Trek: Discovery's Captain Michael Burnham (Sonequa Martin-Green) in the just released trailer for the upcoming fifth season of the Paramount+ series. Revealed today at the Discovery panel at New York Comic Con, the peek at the 2023 premiering fifth season pushes…

EXCLUSIVE: Star Trek: Picard has set phasers for legacy in the Paramount+ series latest and perhaps final appearance at New York Comic Con next month – and they will have some friends on deck. Cast and executive producers of Star Trek: Picard will appear onstage on October 8 at the Big Apple confab to share what’s…

"As long as you and your crew remain steadfast, you are never without hope," intones Sir Patrick Stewart's Jean-Luc Picard in the teaser trailer for the final season of Star Trek: Picard that just dropped at Comic-Con. Watch it above. Featuring an array of characters from the fabled Star Trek: The Next Generation…

Paramount+ announced that season three of its hit original half-hour animated comedy series Star Trek: Lower Decks will premiere on Thursday, August 25, exclusively on Paramount+ in the U.S. Following the premiere, the remaining nine episodes of the 10-episode long season will be available to stream weekly on…

The African American Film Critics Association (AAFCA) announced its special achievement honorees for the 4th Annual AAFCA TV Honors who will be celebrated at an invitation-only, in-person luncheon on August 20th at the SLS Hotel in Los Angeles.  Launched in 2019 with tremendous success, the AAFCA TV Honors recognize…

SPOILER ALERT: This article contains details of tonight’s The Man Who Fell To Earth Season 1 finale. That’s all we got. "Maybe they're not a bundle of laughs, but they're not bent on the destruction of all living things either," Bill Nighy's Thomas Newton says in tonight's The Man Who Fell To Earth Season 1 finale of…

On this episode of Deadline's Scene 2 Scene Podcast, I talk with Oscar nominated actors Chiwetel Ejiofor and Naomie Harris about the Showtime sci-fi series, The Man Who Fell To Earth. In tune with the theme of the show, the three of us share our their experiences with otherness (which is defined as the quality or fact…

"I was taken by all of the themes that Alex and Jenny had put into this story," says Chiwetel Ejiofor of Showtime's The Man Who Fell To Earth series from Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman. "Themes that really are relevant today. I'm mean are right up to the minute really, in how we engage with each other in our human…

The first film that was due to kickstart Universal's monster cinematic universe (which was to include Javier Bardem and Johnny Depp), was The Mummy (2017) starring Tom Cruise and directed by Alex Kurtzman.  Kurtzman is known for working on the scripts of Transformers, the first two Star Trek films, and the Amazing Spid…