Star Trek: Discovery release date: Netflix and CBS reveal when show's coming to UK and US
The show will come in two halves
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Your support makes all the difference.Finally, months after the first trailer for Star Trek: Discovery — the first new Star Trek TV show in 16 years — debuted, the show’s release date has been announced.
For UK viewers, the show will launch on Netflix 25 September, with new episodes uploaded every Monday.
The highly-anticipated show will begin airing in the United States on the 2 September on CBS, starting 8:30 p.m. ET/PT. The first two episodes will then be made available on CBS All Access for US viewers, with subsequent episodes being uploaded on the streaming service weekly.
Star Trek: Discovery — which stars The Walking Dead's Sonequa Martin-Green as first officer Burnham — will be released in two halves.
The first eight episodes will run until November in the UK, the second half, consisting of seven episode, starting in January 2018.
Earlier this year, during a celebratory 50th-anniversary panel at Comic Con, a teaser trailer was released, debuting the show’s title and the USS Discovery.
"It’s not going to be episodic," showrunner Bryan Fuller — best known for Hannibal and currently working on American Gods — revealed at the panel. "We’re going to be telling stories like a novel.”
At the same event, Fuller confirmed the show will take place in the same timeline as the other TV shows — 10 years prior to the original adventures of Kirk and Spock — rather than the JJ Abrams-led films.
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