Star Trek: Discovery season 2 has only just begun, but it’s never too early to start thinking about Star Trek: Discovery season 3 — especially if you’re one of the show’s executive producers.

At today’s CBS presentation at the Television Critics Association conference, Star Trek: Discovery showrunner Alex Kurtzman gave us our first, very vague season 3 tease.

“We’ve started thinking about season 3 already,” said Kurtzman. “We’re cutting the [season 2] finale right now. I can’t wait for you guys to see it. We’re really proud. So we have a lot of big ideas we’ve already started working on. You have to start thinking about season 3 in the middle of season 2. That’s just how I make television.”

A good strategy for any TV storyteller, really.

It’s important to note that Star Trek: Discovery has yet to be officially renewed for a third season, though Kurtzman’s comments certainly make it sounds like. Either way, it’s fun to theorise about!

For example: Might Discovery season 3 include more Spock? The character came up during the Discovery presentation, when Kurtzman dropped the news that the Spock storyline would last for the entire second season, but could the iconic character’s Discovery run last longer than the show’s sophomore season?

It’s also interesting to theorise on how Discovery might tie into any of the other Star Trek TV series currently in development. It seems unlike, given the timeline, that Discovery could help launch the Picard-centric reboot featuring Patrick Stewart (nor that the series would need the help from Discovery, given Picard’s popularity as a character). However, crazier things have been known to happen in the Star Trek universe.

Past Picard, CBS also has in some stage of development: a series set at Starfleet Academy, an animated series about the “lower decks,” anothe animated series, and a Discovery spin-off starring Michelle Yeoh. That last one might get some story time from Star Trek: Discovery season 3.

New information suggests that Sony has already begun shifting its first-party focus towards the PlayStation 5. 

This information comes from an industry analyst/insider named Daniel Ahmad who took to ResetEra to report that “most of the focus for Sony [first party studios] is on PS5 right now.” While Ahmad states that this transitional period is in the very early stages, the general buzz coming from GDC was that first-party developers have begun preliminary work on future PS5 titles. 

According to Ahmad, this also means that the first PS5 development kits are out in the wild. It has previously been suggested that is the case, but Ahmad goes so far as to say that he’s “heard positive things” about the kits from those who already have their hands on them.

What’s maybe even more interesting is Ahmad’s suggestion that Sony already has “a couple of unannounced games (already existing IP) with PS4 in mind.” That seems to suggest that the company hasn’t completely abandoned the idea of producing major PS4 games and will seemingly treat the PS4 as their main focus for 2019. While we strongly believe that the next generation of gaming will start in 2020, the idea that there are still significant unannounced PS4 titles should come as good news to those who are not quite ready to make the switch. 

Still, the fact that Sony is reportedly shifting their first-party focus towards the next generation says quite a lot when you also consider that Sony has previously suggested that they are going to emphasise their first-party studios even more in the next console generation and may even look to turn more studios into first-party developers. This may be part of the reason why Microsoft was so adamant to acquire so many high-profile developers in such a short period of time. 

Speaking of Xbox, there’s no shortage of reports out there which suggest they have already begun working on their next generation of consoles and may also be prepared to unleash them as soon as 2020. 

Zack Snyder is ready to make a new movie. The project is called Army Of The Dead, and it’s one that Netflix has lifted off Warner Bros’ development plate. There’s no information on why WB decided to pass the project on to the streaming service at this time, but the budget is reportedly in the $90 million range, so it’ll be no cheap affair for Netflix.

Army Of The Dead will be Snyder’s first film since he stepped off the set of Justice League after a family tragedy, famously handing over the reins to Avengers director Joss Whedon.

THR got the exclusive on Snyder’s comeback flick, which will be set “amid a zombie outbreak in Las Vegas, during which a man assembles a group of mercenaries to take the ultimate gamble, venturing into the quarantined zone to pull off the greatest heist ever attempted.”

“There are no handcuffs on me at all with this one,” Snyder told THR. “I thought this was a good palate cleanser to really dig in with both hands and make something fun and epic and crazy and bonkers in the best possible way.

While he still loves the comic book movies of his past, the director is clearly excited about somewhat going back to his Dawn Of The Dead roots:

“I love to honour canon and the works of art, but this is the opportunity to find a purely joyful way to express myself though a genre. It will be the most kick-ass, self-aware — but not in a wink-to-the-camera way — balls-to-the-wall zombie freakshow that anyone has ever seen. No one’s ever let me completely loose [like this].”

Snyder seems eager to get back in the game now, enthusing “I love big action, I love big sequences. My movie brain starts clicking around and I was like, ‘We need to be shooting this now!’ Constructing these sequences really fired me up.”

He also told THR that he’s spent the last few years reconnecting “with photography”, noting that his last few films had been of such scope that they’d pushed him “away from the camera.”

More on Army Of The Dead as it arrives.

Channel 4 is almost ready to serve us up a nice cold slice of fresh spy drama shenanigans.

Traitors, a new thriller series starring Emma Appleton, Keeley Hawes, Michael Stuhlbarg and Luke Treadaway – among others – is a six-part series created by Bash Doran, who’s previously forged a career overseas writing for Boardwalk Empire and Masters Of Sex. She also wrote Outlaw King for Netflix (the one where Star Trek and Wonder Woman star Chris Pine did a questionable Scottish accent, with mixed results).

Here’s the first trailer for you…

And here’s the synopsis…

Traitors is a compulsive spy thriller that takes us behind the scenes of a seismic moment in global history, through the eyes of one young woman caught in the middle of it. An intimate epic set in 1945 London, Traitors is the dangerous, enthralling story of Feef, who is seduced by a rogue American spy into spying on her own country. Her task? To uncover a Russian agent in the heart of the British Government.

Channel 4 hasn’t revealed an air date for Traitors yet. All we’ve heard is the intangible promise of “coming soon”…