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New deals were recently announced regarding rights to TOS and ENT announced:

 

Original 'Trek' Ventures to TV Land

Network will mark show's 40th anniversary in September

Zap2It.com

August 10 2006

 

TV Land is going where, well, quite a few networks have gone before, acquiring rights to the original "Star Trek" series.

 

The iconic sci-fi show will join TV Land's regular rotation in November, but the classic-television network will get an early start on the voyages of the starship Enterprise on Friday, Sept. 8 -- the 40th anniversary of the show's premiere on NBC.

 

That night, TV Land will show four episodes from the series, including "The Man Trap," the episode that began the series on Sept. 8, 1966.

 

"'Star Trek' forever changed the landscape of television and science fiction, and to this day remains a cornerstone of pop culture," says Larry Jones, president of TV Land. "It continues to attract passionate fans, and we are thrilled to mark this monumental anniversary on TV Land."

 

In addition to the premiere, TV Land will show the fan-favorite episodes "City on the Edge of Forever," in which Kirk (William Shatner) and Spock (Leonard Nimoy) time-travel to 1930s New York, and "The Trouble with Tribbles," featuring the little fuzzballs that take over the Enterprise. The anniversary marathon will conclude with "Plato's Stepchildren," which featured the first interracial kiss, between Kirk and Uhura (Nichelle Nichols), ever shown on television.

 

"Star Trek" will begin airing regularly on TV Land on Nov. 17. Episodes will also be available online on a new broadband channel at TVLand.com.

 

12:00 AM, 03-AUGUST-06

SCI FI Gets Enterprise, Other Shows

SCI FI Channel has acquired the rights to multiple made-for-television movies and series from CBS Paramount Domestic Television, including Star Trek: Enterprise, the prequel series starring Scott Bakula and Jolene Blalock, as well as the series Haunted, Jake 2.0 and last fall's short-lived Threshold. The deal also includes exclusive cable rights to the classic series The Twilight Zone, Tales From the Darkside, several Stephen King miniseries and made-for-TV movies including Primal Force and Trilogy of Terror II.

 

Enterprise, which ran for four seasons, 2001-'05, on UPN, will premiere in early fall on SCI FI Channel. The Twilight Zone will continue its exclusive run on the channel. Tales From the Darkside, the syndicated horror series, will premiere later this year.

 

Three acclaimed miniseries, including two from Stephen King, will also premiere exclusively this fall. Invaders also stars Bakula, playing a man who discovers an alien conspiracy and attempts to foil the plot by warning the Earth of imminent danger. The Langoliers, originally one of four short stories in the King novel Four Past Midnight, stars Dean Stockwell and Patricia Wettig as passengers on a cross-country flight who awake to find that they and a small group of others are the only people left on Earth. The Stand, starring Gary Sinise and Molly Ringwald, takes place in a world decimated by a man-made plague.

 

The deal also includes five made-for-television movies: Inferno, Primal Force, Lost in the Bermuda Triangle, Sightings: Heartland Ghost and Trilogy of Terror II.

 

The other series in the deal include Wolf Lake, Kindred: The Embraced, Special Unit 2, Level 9 and All Souls.