{"id":50064,"date":"2019-02-11T17:54:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T01:54:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.trektoday.com\/content\/?p=50064"},"modified":"2019-02-11T17:54:26","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T01:54:26","slug":"stewart-small-update-on-new-picard-show","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/2019\/02\/stewart-small-update-on-new-picard-show\/","title":{"rendered":"Stewart: Small Update On New Picard Show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sir Patrick Stewart<\/strong>, while making the rounds in the UK to promote his latest movie,<em> The Kid Who Would Be King<\/em>, spoke about the new Picard show, set to debut late this year.<\/p>\n<p>On<em> The Graham Norton Show,<\/em> Stewart admitted that he &#8220;still can&#8217;t quite fully take it on board, because I am not only reviving Jean-Luc Picard, but I&#8217;m also co-executive producer, which I have never done before.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are reviving a Picard story. It is exactly nineteen years in the future [2389], which is how time has passed since the last time I put on my space suit. It has been that long I mean for the television series.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When asked why Jean-Luc Picard had a British and not a French accent, the actor gave an example of a French accent to the hosts and guests on the show.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They didn&#8217;t use it,&#8221; he said, while everyone laughed.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the video below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4frJ_SiDLj8\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On <em>This Morning Show<\/em>, and<em> RTE<\/em>, Stewart told fans what they already know, that there is a great deal of secrecy around the project. &#8220;We are trying to keep it under covers as much as possible,&#8221; he said, &#8220;because that we hope will entice people to tune in and watch it, and then get taken up in the new world that<em> The Next Generation<\/em> is now inhabiting.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t even tell you the title of the series,&#8221; he said in an interview with <em>RTE<\/em>. &#8220;All these things are banned. But I can tell you we are shooting in California, and we have some brilliant people working on this show.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BlijdHkN0hA\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sir Patrick Stewart, while making the rounds in the UK to promote his latest movie,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":50065,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2413,9651],"tags":[2440],"class_list":["post-50064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cast-crew","category-picard-trek-series","tag-stewart"],"featured_image_urls":{"full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119.jpg",580,225,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119.jpg",580,225,false],"medium_large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119.jpg",580,225,false],"large":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119.jpg",580,225,false],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119.jpg",580,225,false],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-slider-full":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-featured":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119.jpg",580,225,false],"newsphere-medium":["https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/StewartGrahamNortonShowCBS021119.jpg",580,225,false]},"author_info":{"display_name":"T&#39;Bonz","author_link":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/author\/tbonz\/"},"category_info":"<a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/cast-crew\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Cast &amp; Crew<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/categories\/picard-trek-series\/\" rel=\"category tag\">Star Trek: Picard<\/a>","tag_info":"Star Trek: Picard","comment_count":"0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50066,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50064\/revisions\/50066"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trektoday.com\/content\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}