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Netflix announced today that it has teamed with CBS International to offer a next-day stream of each new episode of the network’s forthcoming Star Trek reboot. As part of the landmark licensing deal, the highly anticipated series will be made available to subscribers in 188 countries around the world — excluding the United States and Canada. We’ll have to watch the show on CBS All Access.
According to a press release, the new deal also includes exclusive streaming rights to all 727 existing episodes of the iconic Star Trek television franchise. Netflix subscribers worldwide will have access to Star Trek: The Original Series, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Star Trek: Voyager and Star Trek: Enterprise by the end of 2016. The all-new Star Trek series will begin production in Toronto in September and is slated for a January 2017 premiere.
In other news…
Hulu’s forthcoming original period drama, The Handmaid’s Tale, has cast Max Minghella and The Leftovers’ Ann Dowd opposite to lead actress Elisabeth Moss. Developed by MGM Television and adapted from Margaret Atwood’s bestselling novel, the brand new series centers around the totalitarian society in Gilead, a dystopian province of the United States. [Deadline]
The original Degrassi cast is set to reunite for one special “class reunion” episode of the Netflix original reboot, Degrassi: The Next Generation. The standalone episode, which will air this Friday, July 22, will bring back legacy cast members including Craig Manning, Paige Michalchuk, and Liberty Van Zandt, among others. Our guess is that Drake won’t be featured, as he’s probably a bit preoccupied.

Amazon has posted an exclusive first look at former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson’s new Prime Video original reboot, The Grand Tour. In the clip, Clarkson has a comical discussion with co-hosts James May and Richard Hammond about where a man would go to buy himself pants:

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