Apparently Australian actors aren’t good enough to lead an Australian drama on an international platform.
Crazy I know.
This will always happen when you’re a commercial enterprise in multiple territories where one is stronger than the other.
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Sounds like practically every other series being made at the moment. Will they only make series with women front and centre these days in Australia?
The Lost Flowers of Alice Hart, Deadloch, The Class of 07, Safe Home, The Clearing, Gold Diggers, Savage River, Significant Others, Bad Mothers, After the Verdict, The Gloaming, Total Control, The Secret She Keeps, Paper Dolls, Bump, Wellmania, Fisk, Frayed, Spreadsheet, Turn Up The Volume, The PM’s Daughter, First Day, Dive Club, Rock Island Mysteries, Mustangs FC. Even the ensemble shows are mainly focussed on the lead women like Bay of Fires, Five Bedrooms, RFDS, Riptide etc.
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Secrets Always Surface.
One Night. A Paramount+ Australian Original Series Streaming Exclusively On Paramount+ From Friday, 1 September.
Paramount+ today released the launch date, official trailer and key art for its original six-part drama, One Night, a character-driven mystery about female friendships under incredible emotional and existential strain, from Easy Tiger and Motive Pictures.
Streaming exclusively on Paramount+ from Friday, 1 September, One Night was created and written by the award-winning Emily Ballou (The Slap, Taboo) and directed by Catherine Millar (The Twelve, The Secrets She Keeps) and Lisa Matthews (Doctor Doctor, The PM’s Daughter).
One Night is the story of three women whose bond was all but destroyed by the traumatic events of one night 20-years-ago.
Since then, Simone (Nicole da Silva) has harboured secret hopes of becoming a novelist but most of her haphazard attempts have been shoved into her bottom drawer. Now, at the age of 40, she has finally written the one story she could never get out of her mind, and her debut manuscript has become an unexpected overnight success.
But it soon becomes apparent that the devastating story the book tells doesn’t exclusively belong to her. At the heart of Simone’s novel is a tragedy which also happened to Tess (Jodie Whittaker) and Hat (Yael Stone), her two childhood best friends.
As it becomes harder to prise fact from fiction, one person’s memory and story from another’s, the book threatens to derail all their friendships, bringing old traumas to the surface of the small coastal community where they grew up, and stirring its perpetrators, who want to make it all go away.
Jodie Whittaker (Dr Who, Broadchurch), Nicole da Silva (Doctor Doctor, Wentworth) and Yael Stone (Orange is the New Black) lead an ensemble cast that includes Kat Stewart (Five Bedrooms, Offspring), George Mason (The Power of the Dog), Erroll Shand (Underbelly: Land of the Long Green Cloud), Noni Hazlehurst (A Place To Call Home, Fires), Tina Bursill (Doctor Doctor), William Zappa (The Dry, Miss Fisher & the Crypt of Tears), Damien Strouthos (The Twelve) and Jillian Nguyen (Barons).
Click here for a look at the trailer.
One Night is produced by Easy Tiger’s Ian Collie, Rob Gibson and Ally Henville (Colin From Accounts, The Twelve) with Motive Pictures’ Simon Maxwell (The Woman in the Wall, Get Millie Black) and Sophia Mogford from Paramount+ as executive producer along with Harriet Creelman as co-executive producer. Written by Emily Ballou, who also serves as executive producer.
One Night is a Paramount+ Australian Original series with major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Paramount+. Fifth Season is handling international sales.
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The latest Transformers movie just dropped on digital payment platforms, such as Amazon Shop’s ‘Home Premiere’ tile (exactly 6 weeks - the standard for this rights window) after theatrical release. It’s licenced by Paramount. Wonder when we can expect it to land for Paramount+ subs (presuming they don’t licence to another paid streamer)?
Do Paramount+ usually upload their titles relatively fast? Disney+ do, they seem to almost rush them to streaming ahead of any other window/above other revenue streams, although don’t they make some ‘premium’ where an extra fee is involved, I think they’re usually the ones that land concurrently with theatrical (like during COVID), not so sure now.
Paramount+ Debuts First Look For The Original Series Lawmen: Bass Reeves.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Streaming Exclusively On Paramount+ This Spring.
Paramount+ debuted first look imagery and a tease for the highly anticipated original series Lawmen: Bass Reeves. Premiering this spring, the anthology series stars executive producer and Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee David Oyelowo, Lauren E. Banks, Forrest Goodluck, Barry Pepper, Demi Singleton, Honorary Oscar Recipient Donald Sutherland and Emmy and Golden Globe Award nominee Dennis Quaid. Executive produced by Academy Award nominee Taylor Sheridan and created for television by executive producer and showrunner Chad Feehan, the eight-episode season is produced by MTV Entertainment Studios, 101 Studios, Sheridan’s Bosque Ranch Productions and Oyelowo’s Yoruba Saxon exclusively for Paramount+.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves will bring the legendary lawman and outlaws of the Wild West to life. Reeves (Oyelowo), known as the greatest frontier hero in American history, worked in the post-Reconstruction era as a federal peace officer in the Indian Territory capturing over 3,000 of the most dangerous criminals without ever being wounded. Lawmen: Bass Reeves is an anthology series with future iterations to follow other iconic lawmen and outlaws who have impacted history.
The cast also includes Shea Whigham and Garrett Hedlund as guest stars, and, in recurring roles, Joaquina Kalukango, Lonnie Chavis, Grantham Coleman, Tosin Morohunfola, Dale Dickey, Rob Morgan, Ryan O’Nan, Margot Bingham Mo Brings Plenty, Justin Hurtt-Dunkley and Bill Dawes.
In addition to Sheridan, Feehan and Oyelowo, the series is also executive produced by David C. Glasser, Jessica Oyelowo, David Permut, Christina Alexandra Voros, Ron Burkle, Bob Yari and David Hutkin.
Lawmen: Bass Reeves is the latest addition to Sheridan’s growing slate on Paramount+, which includes 1923, 1883, Mayor Of Kingstown, Tulsa King and Special Ops: Lioness as well as the upcoming series Land Man.
IT’S A PARAMOUNT+ PARTY AND YOU’RE ALL INVITED!
Paramount+ Streams Into Its Second Birthday Down Under.
No longer a babe, Paramount+ has streamed its way into its second birthday with audiences loving the mountain of entertainment available on Australia’s premier streaming service.
Bypassing the crawl, walk, run stages, Paramount+ is flying with audiences making it the fastest growing streaming service in Australia in its first 18 months.
Since August 2021, Paramount+ has offered entertainment for all tastes and age groups in Australian households with something for everyone including blockbusters, new originals and exclusive series, hit shows and kids’ favourites.
Aussies have LOL-ed, sobbed and swooned with iconic star-studded hit drama series, riotous comedies and epic feature films like 1883, SOUTH PARK, LAST KING OF THE CROSS, 1923, TULSA KING, HALO, TOP GUN: MAVERICK, YELLOWJACKETS and FIVE BEDROOMS, just to name a few.
But there’s even more with SPECIAL OPS: LIONESS, THE INSPIRED UNEMPLOYED (IMPRACTICAL) JOKERS and THE BETOOTA ADVOCATE PRESENTS all streaming now, THE APPLETON LADIES’ POTATO RACE premiering last month and ONE NIGHT streaming from September 1.
Plus NCIS: SYDNEY is currently in production while a second season of LAST KING OF THE CROSS has been commissioned further bolstering an exciting content pipeline for audiences on Paramount+.
With 22 commissions since its launch, Paramount+ has commissioned more local productions than any other streamer in the same timeframe demonstrating a commitment to invest in the Australian screen industry.
Beverley McGarvey, Executive Vice President and Chief Content Officer and Head of Paramount+, Paramount Australia and New Zealand (ANZ), said: “We continue to invest in local content because that’s what our audiences want to see. Australia has some of the industry’s best screen creatives so we’re truly making world class content for audiences here and overseas.
“The success of LAST KING OF THE CROSS as the #1 new local series on Paramount+ as well as strong international sales, is testament to the high calibre of content we are commissioning and creating in Australia.
“Paramount+ is also home to an extraordinary breadth and depth of global content across all genres with an ever-expanding library of original series, hit shows, popular movies and live sports that has something for everyone to stream and enjoy.
“From global smash hit movies like TOP GUN: MAVERICK, to gritty thriller SPECIAL OPS: LIONESS, quirky and charming Australian stories like THE APPLETON LADIES’ POTATO RACE, to galactic adventures across the Star Trek Universe, plus a vast array of Nickelodeon kids’ content and all the best football action, Australian audiences are streaming our mountain of entertainment on Paramount+. We’re delighted to see strong and continued growth for our premium service in Australia.”
The non-stop football action continued on Paramount+ this year with fans catching every minute of the Liberty A-League Women and Isuzu UTE A-League Men seasons, the Emirates FA Cup, all the friendlies for the CommBank Matildas and Subway Socceroos, and the current international Winter Festival of Football and the Australia Cup.
We’re also serious about series on Paramount+ with the top 15 since launch including 1883, SOUTH PARK, 1923, TULSA KING, HALO, LAST KING OF THE CROSS, MAYOR OF KINGSTOWN, YELLOWJACKETS, PAW PATROL, RABBIT HOLE, DEXTER: NEW BLOOD, STAR TREK: STRANGE NEW WORLDS, FIVE BEDROOMS, JOE PICKETT and SEAL TEAM. A fine selection to settle in and stream with a slice of birthday cake!
Our tiniest and tweeniest subscribers have also continued to enjoy new and exclusive original content from the number-one entertainment brand for kids, Nickelodeon.
Some of these standout shows and more include: RUBBLE & CREW, a brand-new animated PAW PATROL spinoff, featuring fan-favourite character Rubble; all-new episodes for season nine of PAW PATROL; ZOEY 102, a new original movie based on characters from the hit live-action series ZOEY 101; the third season of ICARLY; and STAR TREK: LOWER DECKS, season four of the hit original animated comedy series from the Star Trek Universe.
Plus, fans are eagerly awaiting the next season for the locally produced hit ROCK ISLAND MYSTERIES, and there’s also the perennial fan favourites of SPONGEBOB SQUAREPANTS, MONSTER HIGH, RUGRATS, CATDOG, THE SMURFS and more.
Not only has Paramount+’s library of compelling content continued to grow, so too has the number of ways subscribers can access the service.
New partnerships with Qantas, Origin, LG, Foxtel and TCL powered by the Roku operating system, build on a vast array of existing viewing and access options including Apple TV and Channels, Amazon Channels and Fire TV, Samsung, Telstra TV, Fetch, Android TV and Google TV, Web, Mobile (iOS and Android), and Optus Sub Hub, giving subscribers more ways and platforms to subscribe to and watch Paramount+.
With 20,000 hours to stream of unique stories, iconic stars, live sport and a mountain of entertainment, it’s cause to celebrate as Paramount+ turns two.
Join the party on Paramount+ for just $9.99 per month for a monthly subscription or $89.99 for an annual subscription.
Source: Subscription Entertainment Defies Rising Cost of Living Pressures. Telsyte
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Paramount+ won’t survive.
It’s simply too small and is chicken feed.
Paramount Global has a market cap of only $10b which is fish feed to Comcast’s $190b and Netflix $190b
Look for it to be swallowed up by Comcast / NBCU or WBD (market cap $35b) in the years ahead.
That would mean 10 has a new owner in NBCU Comcast or WBD.
If it’s WBD the P+ brand will fade away and be folded into Max.
Paramount has the resources to continue P+, it’s just down to how they allocate them.
Market cap doesn’t mean anything, especially in WBD’s case.
Comcast would only be able to (potentially) acquire Paramount pictures and studio assets and not television (in both US and UK.)
Which we’ve seen the Disney/21st Century merger hasn’t delivered expectations.
All the inside talk is that Paramount Global won’t survive. It’s just too small.
Market cap means nothing?
The industry disagrees with you.
These companies need scale and size to compete with Netflix.
It’s Why Comcast Merged with NBC
It’s why Disney bought fox assets
Is why Time Warner was bought by Wb
It’s why víacom and CBS Merged
It’s why showtime is now a sub brand of p+
The smart money is suggesting Comcast will buy WBD or WBD will buy Para or Comcast buys para
If apple buys Disney - that will create a new scale unheard of.
I work in the steaming area - everyone is saying paramount won’t be around in a few years
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Comcast could buy p+ but not CBS
At $10b it’s chicken feed money to eliminate a competitor. Alone Peacock won’t survive either. It’s tiny and losing hundreds of millions. Has no clear position in market
And then there is Hulu. Comcast could buy Hulu and p+ and combined with Peacock they would have scale to take on Max, Disney+, Prime and Netflix
Alone peacock can’t survive
Disney massively overpaid for Fox. That’s widely accepted now.
I’ve also been reading on puck that in 15 years NBC might be the sole linear network standing.
Isn’t paramount tied up with CBS?
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Paramount owns CBS.
It’s more likely that NBCU will merge with WBD.
If NBCU/Comcast were to buy Paramount , they’ll have to offload CBS, due to ownership limitations.
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Someone will buy up Paramount Global - it’s just so cheap
If they do - would be interesting to see if the Peacock brand goes away and Max lives on. Most likely.
Also - how many years till max makes its way to Australia and UK?
None of these are available in Australia yet. The streaming market here is saturated as it is, so it’s doubtful whether they can succeed, especially with Netflix, Disney + and Stan doing well.
I think it’s inevitable that Max will come to AU once WBD takes back the HBO programming from Foxtel. Same as UK and Sky.
Right now they make more money on-selling content to Foxtel then they would from having max in market and the considerable start up costs in getting up a new streamer in new market.
But in the years ahead as linear dies more and P+ goes away - I think Max will look to launch in AU and UK and go DTC - bypassing Foxtel and sky