FULLER NOT DISCOVERING AFTER ALL
Posted: 021917

Hannibal show runner Bryan Fuller has left the upcoming CBS All Access digital series Star Trek: Discovery. A statement from CBS says he left the series because of his busy work schedule. Fuller is producing an adaptation of Neil Gaiman’s American Gods series and is behind the reboot of Amazing Stories at NBC. He will remain as executive producer but his participation is minimal and wrote the first two episodes of the series and the overall arc of the show. The major reason Fuller left the show was because CBS wanted the show on the air next year and he wasn’t willing to rush the series on the air that fast. The show has cast Michelle Yeoh as Captain Georgiou, Hellboy’s Doug Jones as Lt. Saru, and Rent’s Anthony Rapp as Lt. Stamets. Yeoh isn’t the lead character in the show; that role of a female Lieutenant Commander hasn’t been cast yet and will go to an unknown actress. Discovery will be set 10 years before the time of James T. Kirk. The first season will be thirteen episodes but following seasons will only run ten episodes each. The show after the first episode will only be available on the new CBS All Access streaming service even though overseas audiences will be able to watch the show on Netflix so expect a fair amount of bootleg copies all over the Internet. CBS says the rationale behind this is because traditional science-fiction doesn’t do well on broadcast TV.