Sci Fi TV Week in Review: Johnny Jay’s irreverent, snarky, and caffeine-fueled look back at the past week in sci fi TV in five minutes or less.
This is a special edition of my Sci Fi TV Week in Review column catching up on news coming out of San Diego Comic-Con over the weekend (I covered the news from the first few days of the Con at this link). I wouldn’t say that there was an epic amount of sci fi TV news coming from SDCC this year, but still plenty of interest to genre fans.
Star Trek executive producers Alex Kurtzman and Rod Roddenberry indicated at Comic-Con that they will keep cranking out Trek spin-offs, claiming that two more are in the works. Of course they did not bother with details and since the Section 31 and Starfleet Academy shows have already been announced, we can assume the new spin-offs are not linked to either of those. Kurtzman did say that we can “expect to see more Star Trek shows with female leads”, and there were suggestions that Jeri Ryan and/or Gates McFadden could take the lead in an upcoming Trek series.
Star Trek: Lower Decks will be crossing over with two other Trek shows starting with its upcoming third season. In the trailer that was released at SDCC, the U.S.S. Cerritos makes a visit to Deep Space Nine, and then the upcoming season of Strange New Worlds will have Ensign Beckett Mariner and Ensign Brad Boimler joining the crew of the U.S.S. Enterprise in an episode to be directed by Jonathan Frakes.
And in even more Star Trek news, the Next Generation crew will be reuniting on the upcoming third–and presumably final–season of Picard as indicated in a teaser released during the Con.
The long-awaited new Daredevil series has a title and a release window. It will be called Daredevil: Born Again and it is set for a 2024 release on Disney+ with Charlie Cox and Vincent D’Onofrio reprising their roles as Matt Murdock/Daredevil and Wilson Fisk/Kingpin respectively. The series is being referred to as a reboot, but it sure seems like a bad idea to just dispense with the first three seasons of the highly acclaimed series, so hopefully it will be more of a revival. Cox and D’Onofrio will also be appearing in the upcoming Hawkeye spin-off series Echo which is set for a mid-2023 release.
Four other MCU series were given release windows as well, all in 2023. Secret Invasion will be released in Spring of that year, Season 2 of Loki will arrive in Summer, Ironheart will premiere in Fall, and Agatha: Agent of Chaos will round out the year in Winter.
In schedule announcements, AMC has given its upcoming vampire series Interview with a Vampire a premiere date of October 2nd. That is not to be confused with Peacock’s upcoming vampire series Vampire Academy which premieres September 15th. It is also not to be confused with Syfy’s upcoming vampire series Reginald the Vampire with premieres October 5th. It is also not to be confused with Netflix’s recent vampire series First Kill which premiered in June . . . Tell me again why we need so many vampire shows?
In trailers, Comic-Con gave us a look at Netflix’s The Sandman, Disney+’s She-Hulk: Attorney at Law, AMC’s The Interview with a Vampire, Paramount+’s Star Trek: Lower Decks Season 3, and more. You can see the roundup of SDCC trailers at this link.
Did I miss anything? Probably because I’m trying to catch up with what I missed in previous SDCC announcements as well as all those trailers, so let me know in the comments below.
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