Watching CBS All Access
CBS was the first major U.S. broadcast network to launch a premium streaming service. It’s notable for being the home for all thingsStar Trek, including the currentStar Trek: DiscoveryandStar Trek: Picardseries.
What’s Playing?
Every show that’s in the current CBS primetime lineup is available on CBS All Access, which makes it a good place to catch up on your favorite network programming, fromCriminal MindsandNCIStoMomandSurvivor.You can also watch the latest episodes ofLate Show with Stephen ColbertandThe Late Late Show with James Corden, as well as60 Minutes,The Price Is Right, andThe Talk.
More notably, CBS All Access is the exclusive home (in the United States, anyway) forStar Trek: Discovery,Star Trek: Picard, and the upcomingStar Trek: Strange New Worlds. All the otherStar Trekseries are here, as well, including the original series,Star Trek: Deep Space Nine,Star Trek: Enterprise,Star Trek: The Next Generation, andStar Trek: Voyager.
CBS All Access offers other original series, includingThe Good Fight,No Activity,One Dollar,Strange Angel, Jordan Peele’s reboot ofThe Twilight Zone, andWhy Women Kill.The service also is adding a variety of movies from Paramount, which is a subsidiary or ViacomCBS.
In addition, you can use the CBS All Access app to watch your local CBS station live in real time, and you can watch feeds from CBS Sports HQ and the otherwise little-known CBSN news network.
What It Costs
CBS offers two All Access plans. The Limited Commercials plan (which, as the name implies, allows you to suffer through what it deems a limited number of advertisements) runs $5.99 USD per month or $59.99 USD per year. If you’d rather excise advertisements entirely, go with the No Commercials plan for $9.99 USD per month or $99.99 USD per year.
Tech Specs
CBS All Access is not the most technically advanced service available today. There’s no 4K or Dolby Atmos. Programming is 1080p HD max, with most shows in plain old-fashioned stereo; only a few programs feature Dolby Digital 5.1 surround. CBS lets you view All Access programming on only two devices at a time.