The premiere episode is going to be televised. After that all future episodes will be CBS All Access-only (at least in the US).

It's the old drug dealer sales approach: you always want to make the first hit free.

Oh. I totally misread this thing. It's actually as clear as mud where, when, and how they're going to release it.

When I first read it I thought it was going to be US exclusive. Luckily I managed to calm down and re-read before I went on the rampage.

They are definitely putting it on TV. This is like when games are advertised "Only on Playstation" when there's also a PC version, since it's a console exclusive. They just really want people to subscribe to their streaming service instead of Netflix, so their app will be the exclusive (legal) streaming destination.

It's the typical bullshit.

This sentence annoys me more every time I read it:

>"This new series will premiere to the national CBS audience, then boldly go where no first-run Star Trek series has gone before – directly to its millions of fans through CBS All Access,”

Why can they not simply write in a way is comprehensible?

"The first episode will be on CBS. Subsequent episodes will be on "CBS All Access"”.

It's obviously written to be a promotional piece for CBS All Access. Really the only response that will benefit them financially at this point is for people to get interested in the service because Star Trek is coming. Depending on what other countries and services it is available in, it might be possible to use a VPN to stream it on competing services in the US.

Although it says that it will only premiere on TV and then move to the streaming service, I wouldn't be surprised if it is later added to the TV schedule, maybe once the second season starts, in a reverse trend of the current TV->streaming release delay.