'The Twilight Zone' Reboot News: Series In The Works At CBS All Access
"The Twilight Zone" reboot is now in the works and will come to streaming the subscription service CBS All Access. This is according to CBS CEO Les Moonves who made the announcement during the company's earnings call Thursday.
Moonves didn't provide any more details regarding the project. However, according to The Hollywood Reporter, the series will be produced by "Get Out" filmmaker Jordan Peele's Monkeypaw Productions and "The Defenders" executive producer Marco Ramirez will serve as showrunner. CBS commented on this saying that the report is "not confirmed and very premature."
CBS All Access was the focal point of the company's introductory remarks during the earnings call. Moonves poised the "The Twilight Zone" reboot as the latest example of the company's strategy to produce its own content and feature an increasing number of them to the streaming service.
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"The good news is, the bet is paying off," he said. "The programming kind of needs to be more premium than it would be on CBS. It needs to be more specialized, needs to stand out."
CBS All Access has been ramping up its original series production having already aired Season 1 of The Good Wife spinoff The Good Fight starring Christine Baranski. With "The Twilight Zone" reboot, the company is aiming for the same kind of leveraging of classic TV as they did with "Star Trek: Discovery" which enticed more people to sign up and has already been renewed for a second season.
The company already offers the original anthology series created by Rod Serling on CBS All Access. The series consisted of 156 episodes all shot in black and white and featuring self-contained short dramas which often ended with sci-fi or psychological twists at the end. Since airing from 1959-1964, the two-time Emmy Award-winning series has spawned a feature film and a pair of short-lived TV revivals in 1985 and 2002.
