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welcome to 339 I'm Roger Chang and with me is special guests CBS Interactive CEO Jim lens out Jim I don't I'm super excited Jim as an introduction is the CEO of CBS Interactive which is a vast conglomerate which scene that is a big part of yeah so he's here to talk about CBS all access and specifically Star Trek discovery which is one of the flagship show that will be debuting sometime in the fall can you get your suit specific for you you're a fan I am a thing want to leave oh yes sometime in the fall so that's that's all we got that's all we're saying so far we gonna get a little more no tomorrow all right well upfront our tomorrow so we might get more details tomorrow hopefully but let's talk about the show because you know we've gotten a lot of smattering details about casting news Siddiq lamorne green fantastic a big fan from Walking Dead is the lead actress the show tell me a little about you know what what can we expect from Star Trek discovery um well not me we it's true we are in the middle of production and and we are not saying a whole lot yet um other than that you know it's it's a whole new Star Trek and we are with CBS all access which for those who don't know it's it's our subscription video on-demand service for CBS programming $5.99 a month $9.99 for the add free version where you know we've historically it's been our library of programming all the way back to I Love Lucy it's over 9000 episodes of shows you actually can watch your live feed of your local CBS station so watch NFL games watch the Grammys watch your local news and then we announced that we're doing our own original programming the first one of which was an online version of Big Brother the second one was the sequel to The Good Wife which launched in February called the good fight and then Star Trek will be the next okay well I mean tell us I mean look we've got the movies which are serve our broad based they kind of they're they're definitely less for Trekkies and more for everyone else and they're the shows that were for the hardcore trek is where does discovery fallen we'll see I mean it's definitely we see it's a series that will live online and so but it's definitely being done in a different way than it's been done before it's going to be very cinematic very high production value and you know grittier the way that that a lot of you know premium cable shows are today that's definitely the approach that that the team is taking I'm gonna see hoping Game of Thrones type sex to capitation violence I mean I highly doubt that the difference is that you you could if you needed to right if I show runners and creators wanted to tell that story they could because living online they're they're technically or no ratings but you know in the past someone asked me that question I said yeah theoretically and then everybody went berserk saying I can't believe you're gonna have naked Klingons but no that's that's not no seance then laugh that is a you know that that's the intent is to make a great Star Trek right and the people who are doing the show which who are not CBS executives they are you know very talented show runners and um you know they are people who are steeped in Star Trek and you know are all very deep you know into the history of the program and I think the show reflects that and it's an issue to take as a city code Green's character his name is Michael which you know had some people scratching their heads she's not the captain it's like the first show where it's not really focused on the captain which is an interesting thing she's like the first officer what how does that change that dynamic can't talk about that that's that's too detailed but you know in the future people could be named any thats true judging based on a 20-17 but what about the fact that we're focused on the first officer as opposed to it the captain who jason isaacs plays him but it's an interesting dynamic it's different than the normal show yeah again i mean we are still too early to talk about the exact details of that but but certainly as you can see from you know everything that's been put out there so far it's it's a very diverse cast yes it certainly is going to be very original and and you know in a good way different I think than what people have seen before but that's always been the history of Star Trek me is always broken new ground um you know culturally philosophically it's it's a it's always been a very intelligent smart show beyond the dynamics of science fiction and visual effect friend and everything so I think you know knowing who's making the show and the people who you know know who the the creators are um you know they know all that that's absolutely a big part of the show awesome all right well with upfront our tomorrow so hopefully we'll get some more details if so check them out and see that Roger Chang this is Jim lens oh thanks for listening