A Brief History of the ‘Galaxy Quest’ TV Show

It’s just a passing nugget in a new interview with producer Mark Johnson. But since it’s been 10 years since we first heard about a potential TV show based on the much-loved 1999 cult classic Galaxy Quest, any update at all is worth seizing upon. Speaking to Deadline, Johnson was asked about the most recent iteration of the project. In 2023, we learned it was still in the works at at Paramount+, the home of Star Trek‘s recent TV renaissance. He couched his response in a way that also covered a TV show based on the recent Oscar-winning drama The Holdovers: “Both are being written, so we’ll see.” At least he didn’t say “the Galaxy Quest TV show is dead in the water,” which might be what some fans had started to think. The show was first announced a decade ago; a brief Variety article published April 21, 2015, wrote that “Robert Gordon, who co-wrote the DreamWorks feature with David Howard, is in negotiations to work on the TV adaptation, as are original director Dean Parisot and execut ... Read full article.