'Star Trek' fanatics will have All Access to CBS series coming in '17

"Star Trek" is returning to television.

Variety reported late yesterday that producer Alex Kurtzman is developing a new "Star Trek" series for CBS to

debut in January 2017.

According to Variety, the premiere episode and all subsequent first-run episodes will then be available exclusively in the U.S. on CBS' All Access digital subscription service. The hope is that obsessive "Trek" fans will help grow the All Access brand.

"This new series will premiere to the national CBS audience, then boldly go where no first-run 'Star Trek' series has gone before - directly to its millions of fans through CBS All Access," said CBS Digital Media exec Marc DeBevoise.

The new television series is not related to the upcoming feature film "Star Trek Beyond," to be released next summer.

Bill Cosby and his former attorney Marty Singer, should be deposed by lawyers for Janice Dickinson in the model's defamation lawsuit against the embattled comedian, a judge ruled yesterday.

L.A. Superior Court Judge Debre Katz Weintraub ruled Cosby and Singer must give their sworn testimony before Nov. 25.

Dickinson, who is among dozens of women alleging that Cosby sexually assaulted them, is suing Cosby for defamation over statements last year denying the comedian drugged and raped Dickinson in 1982.

The ruling states Dickinson's lawyers can only seek answers as to whether the denials were made maliciously, and Cosby and Singer can assert attorney-client privilege and refuse to answer some questions.

Dickinson never reported the rape to authorities and has said she was afraid if she did that her career would be damaged and Cosby would retaliate.

She sued Cosby in May, claiming she has been re-victimized and her reputation has suffered because of pointed denials by Singer that Cosby drugged and raped her in a Lake Tahoe hotel room more than 30 years ago.

The suit detailed Dickinson's allegations that Cosby raped her after giving her wine and a pill in the hotel room, and how she wanted to go public with her story in a 2002 autobiography but was prevented from doing so by the book's publisher.

Neither Cosby, 78, nor Dickinson, 60, attended yesterday's hearing.

* Entertainment Weekly reports that the Cinemark theater chain's posters for " Star Wars: The Force Awakens," warn that "Star Wars costumes are welcome. However, no face coverings, face paint, or simulated weapons (including lightsabers/blasters) will be allowed in the building."

You know Cinemark, the only thing to protect patrons from a bad person with a lightsaber is a good person with a lightsaber.

* A book that challenges readers to think differently about autism has won Britain's leading literary award for nonfiction.

American writer Steve Silberman's Neurotribes was awarded the $31,000 Samuel Johnson Prize at a ceremony in London yesterday.

It is the first science book to take the prize, founded in 1999 and usually dominated by history and biography.

* Mariah Carey, Questlove from the Roots, the cast of "Sesame Street," and Pat Benatar and Neil Giraldo will be among the stars celebrating at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in New York City to air on NBC.

Cirque du Soleil, Trey Songz, Prince Royce, Jordin Sparks, Shawn Mendes and Jennifer Nettles will also participate in the 89th annual parade on Nov. 26, Macy's announced yesterday.

Other participants include Train, Daughtry, Jake Owen, Andra Day, Andy Grammer, MercyMe, Panic! At the Disco, Plain White T's, Rachel Platten and Miss America 2016 Betty Cantrell.

Broadway will be represented by "Fiddler on the Roof," "Finding Neverland," "The King & I," "On Your Feet!" and "Something Rotten!"

And synergy will be represented by NBC's "The Wiz Live!"

* Sir Tom Jones, whose new autobiography, Over the Top and Back, is due to drop, told U.K. magazine The Times that he wants to test his DNA for black ancestry.

"A lot of people still think I'm black," Jones said. "When I first came to America, people who had heard me sing on the radio would be surprised that I was white when they saw me. Because of my hair, a lot of black people still tell me I'm just passing as white. When I was born, my mother came out in big dark patches all over her body. They asked if she had any black blood and she said she didn't know. I'm going to get my DNA tested. I want to find out."

Sir Tom, if you're like just about every other human walking the Earth these days, you have some black ancestry.

- Daily News wire services contributed to this report.