With the ongoing strikes throwing the late 2023/early 2024 series launch timetables into uncertainty, streamers are coming up with ways to fill out their schedules.
To that effect, Paramount Global has announced that multiple series produced initially for local markets in UK, Korea and Spain, will instead be getting global releases on the company’s Paramount+ streaming service, which operates in the U.S., Canada, U.K., Australia, Latin America, Brazil, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
The most high-profile is the six-episode British mini-series “The Gold,” about how six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near Heathrow Airport in November 1983 and got away with £26 million in gold bullion.
Dominic Cooper, Jack Lowden, Hugh Bonneville, Tom Cullen, Sean Harris, Charlotte Spencer and Emun Elliott co-star in that series which aired in the U.K. on BBC One back in February and now launches internationally on September 14th and in the U.S. on September 17th.
Another is the globally acclaimed Korean crime-thriller “Bargain,” which premiered locally last year and will now debut globally on October 5th. That series deals with a man who finds himself the subject of an auction for his bodily organs. In the midst of this, an earthquake strikes.
A prequel series to Jonathan Glazer’s darkly comic 2000 British crime feature “Sexy Beast,” the South Korean series “Queen Woo” and “A Bloody Lucky Day,” and a second season of the Spanish-language series “Los Enviados” are also getting global launches.
Source: Paramount Global
