It is hard to get a TV show made. Even being a successful producer with lots of popular credits to your name doesn't guarantee you can pull it off. Take Mark Johnson, a producer who over the years has worked on movies and TV shows like Good Morning, Vietnam; Rain Man; The Notebook, Breaking Bad, the Interview With The Vampire show on AMC and The Chronicles of Narnia movies from the 2000s.
Johnson also worked on the 1999 movie Galaxy Quest, a very funny send-up of the Star Trek franchise, where actors from a TV show that isn't Star Trek but is clearly meant to be Star Trek are mistaken for real adventures by space aliens and drafted into their ongoing intergalactic war. Folks have been trying to turn Galaxy Quest into a TV series for a very long time, but so far without luck. Johnson is also pushing to create a TV series based on The Holdovers, the hit 2023 dramady set at a boarding school. He provided a brief update on both shows to Deadline: "Both are being written, so we'll see."
That doesn't sound like the kind of update fans should hang their hat on, but it's something. If there was a Galaxy Quest show made, I imagine it would be with a whole new cast; the original actors have gotten pretty long in the tooth, and Alan Rickman is dead. But if a TV show is done with the same charm as the movie, I would gladly welcome a new cast.
But the show would have to get made first, which doesn't seem like it would happen anytime soon. Is there appetite for a Star Trek satire at a time when Star Trek isn't the monocultural franchise it once was? Then again, maybe a new show could cleverly tweak things to be more in step with how fandoms operate today. With the right writers, anything is possible.
Although if you ask me, I'd rather Hulu continue to proceed The Orville, the other Star Trek satire show that has been left in a lurch since the third season wrapped up in 2022. But like I said, it is hard to get a TV show made.
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