Paramount+ launched today in Australia and is available online at ParamountPlus.com.au and on mobile and connected TV devices via the Paramount+ app on iPhone, iPad and Apple TV, and Android devices, Google TV and other Android TV OS devices.
The service will be accessible on Apple TV channels on the Apple TV app, as well as through Google platforms and devices (Android devices, Google TV and other Android TV OS devices), Fetch TV, Telstra TV, Sony Bravia (Android TV) and Amazon Fire TV.
Liz Baldwin, senior vice president, head of streaming, ViacomCBS Australia and New Zealand, said: “We are excited to launch Paramount+ on such a broad range of platforms.
“We are thrilled to allow subscribers to enjoy the mountain of entertainment available on Paramount+ in as many places and on as many devices as possible, across Apple, Google, Fetch TV, Telstra TV, Sony Bravia and Amazon Fire TV devices.”
Priced at $8.99 per month for a monthly subscription or $89.99 for an annual subscription, new subscribers will have access to a free seven-day trial.
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Paramount+ subscribers will have access to more than 20,000 hours of content throughout the year, including some of these highlights.
Five Bedrooms
Season two of Five Bedrooms dives hard into themes that resonate globally. There’s a new home. A DIY renovation. A DIY renovation injury. Two pregnancies. An ex-husband. A workplace bullying complaint. An unexpected tragedy. Love found and love lost.
Loyal fans will be comforted to learn that the full lead cast returns for season two. There’s the fallen socialite Liz (Kat Stewart), the romantic tragic Ainsley (Katie Robertson), the laconic tradie Ben (Stephen Peacocke), middle-aged mother Heather (Doris Younane) and dutiful gay doctor Harry (Roy Joseph).
Rodger Corser plays Stuart, Liz’s ex- husband; Daniel Lapaine plays Ben’s brother, an investment banker; and Josh McKenzie plays Harry’s love interest, Xavier.
Five Bedrooms season two is one of the Paramount+ Australian originals
Infinite
For Evan McCauley (Mark Wahlberg), skills he has never learned and memories of places he has never visited, haunt his daily life. Self- medicated and on the brink of a mental breakdown, Evan is sought by a secret group that call themselves “Infinites,” revealing to him that his memories may be real—but they are from multiple past lives.
The Infinites bring Evan into their extraordinary world, where a gifted few are given the ability to be reborn with their memories and knowledge accumulated over centuries.
With critical secrets buried in his past, Evan must work with the Infinites to unlock the answers in his memories in a race against time to save humanity from one of their own (Chiwetel Ejiofor) who seeks to end all life to stop what he views as the cursed, endless cycle of reincarnation.
Two Weeks To Live
Two Weeks To Live is a darkly comic tale of love and revenge born from a harmless prank that goes terribly wrong.
In her first role since appearing on the hugely successful Game Of Thrones, Maisie Williams plays Kim, an early 20-something oddball who, since the murder of her father, has lived off-grid in the wilderness with her doomsday-prepping mother Tina, played by BAFTA winner and Emmy nominee Sian Clifford (Fleabag).
Feeling compelled to go on a belated coming-of-age adventure, Kim sets out to find her dad’s killer. Things get complicated when she meets brothers Nicky (Mawaan Rizwan) and Jay (Taheen Modak), and the trio set in motion a chaotic series of events that puts all their lives in danger.
Maisie Williams in Two Weeks To Live
iCarly
Based on Nickelodeon’s original hit sitcom, iCarly picks up nearly 10 years later and finds Carly Shay, the original influencer, and her friends navigating work, love and their family in their twenties.
The all new (and all grown-up) series sees the return of much-loved iconic stars, Miranda Cosgrove (Carly), Jerry Trainor (Spencer) and Nathan Kress (Freddie). The series also welcomes two new cast; Laci Mosley as Harper, Carly’s roommate and best friend; and Jaidyn Triplett as Millicent, Freddie’s snarky and social media-savvy stepdaughter.
As the original influencers and group of best besties reunite to tackle everyday problems and adventures, sit back and relive the hilarious nostalgia of spaghetti tacos, baby Spencer make-overs and those award dance battles.
Kamp Koral: Spongebob’s Under Years
Kamp Koral: SpongeBob’s Under Years, is the first original spinoff to Nickelodeon’s iconic hit show SpongeBob SquarePants and follows 10- year-old SpongeBob SquarePants and his pals as they spend their summer building underwater campfires, catching wild jellyfish, and swimming in Lake Yuckymuck at the craziest camp in the kelp forest, Kamp Koral.
SpongeBob meets Patrick, Sandy, Squidward, Plankton and Mr. Krabs, where the new friends embark on all the joys of camp, including hunting for treasure, slap lining and more. Plus they meet new friends Nobby and Narlene, the narwhal siblings who live in the woods surrounding the camp.
Rugrats
Our adored babies of the 90’s are back in the reimaging of the classic pop- culture cartoon hit, Rugrats.
Featuring rich and colourful CG-animation, celebrate the return of toddlers – Tommy, Chuckie, Angelica, Susie and twins, Phil and Lil – as they explore the world and beyond from their pint-sized and wildly imaginative point- of-view.
Why Women Kill
From creator Marc Cherry (Desperate Housewives), the second season of Why Women Kill features an all-new ensemble cast and storylines set in 1949.
Explore what it means to be beautiful, the hidden truth behind the facades people present to the world, the effects of being ignored and overlooked by society and, finally, the lengths one woman will go to in order to finally belong.
Allison Tolma plays Alma, a zaftig frump, who sets her sights on joining an exclusive garden club for well-heeled ladies in suburban, post war America. It’s here where she meets Rita (Lana Parilla), who runs the garden club with an iron fist and indulges in some sinister extracurricular activities.
Leonardo
Leonardo explores the secrets and drama behind the genius Leonardo da Vinci: his life, his work and his personal struggles all set against the backdrop of Renaissance Italy.
In this eight-part series, learn how Leonardo grew into an unparalleled genius whose work overturned the established order. His restless curiosity flitted between arts, science and technology, driven by a profound quest for knowledge and determined to unfold the mysteries of the world around him.
Unlock the enigma of this extraordinary man, through an untold story of mystery and passion.
Anne Boleyn
Catch the retelling of Anne Boleyn’s infamous downfall and execution, in this three-part series starring Jodie Turner-Smith.
For 500 years we have been fed a story about Anne Boleyn: the cold- hearted scheming seductress who bewitched Henry VIII into marrying her. But we have never heard her side of the story, until now.
Anne Boleyn re-imagines the final months of the infamous Queen’s life from her own perspective, as she struggles to secure a future for her daughter and to challenge the powerful patriarchy closing in around her.
Shining a feminist light on Anne’s demise, Anne Boleyn will depict the key moments that cause Anne to topple, unpicking her immense strength, her fatal vulnerabilities, and her determination to be an equal among men.
Anne Boleyn on Paramount+
Evil
Evil is a psychological mystery that examines the origins of evil along the dividing line between science and religion.
The series focuses on a skeptical female psychologist who joins a priest-in- training and a carpenter as they investigate the Church’s backlog of unexplained mysteries, including supposed miracles, demonic possessions and hauntings. Their job is to assess if there is a logical explanation or if something truly supernatural is at work.
Everyone Is Doing Great
Actors Seth and Jeremy enjoyed the success of Eternal, a hit television vampire drama. Five years after their show has ended, they find themselves struggling to meet life head on.
On the heels of a broken relationship, leaving him devastated, Seth hopes to move forward by throwing his focus into finding a new acting gig… but the harder he tries the further he sinks. Pouring salt in the wound, Seth can’t escape his ex, Izzy, who genuinely wishes they would initiate a real friendship, while her new relationship blossoms right in front of him.
Jeremy spirals downward as his five-year marriage to Eternal co-star, Andrea, is falling apart due to his self-destruction, denial, and apathy. Andrea’s emotional and financial support of Jeremy takes its toll as we see their polar opposite lives and career trajectories unfold. Andrea, with her no-nonsense attitude, is more successful than ever, starring on a hit new cop drama.
Nancy Drew
Nancy Drew follows the teen detective as she solves mysteries, both earthbound and supernatural, in her haunted hometown of Horseshoe Bay, Maine.
Nancy leads a sleuthing team of unlikely crime-solving friends, each with a unique set of useful sleuthing skills: George Fan, Bess Marvin, Ned “Nick” Nickerson and Ace, who were brought together in season one, to team up and clear their names after finding themselves considered prime suspects in a local murder.
Season two picks up in autumn of 2019 during Nancy’s gap year before college. Her adventures will bring the Drew Crew standalone cases, new romances, and emotional journeys of self-reinvention as Nancy tries to navigate her personal life with both her newly discovered biological father, Ryan Hudson, and the man who raised her, Carson Drew.
But it’s the compounding intrigue and menace of the Hudson family will ultimately force her to make a life-altering choice.
Nancy Drew on Paramount+
In The Dark
Murphy is a hard-living, hard-drinking, disaffected twenty-something with a penchant for cigarettes and casual sex.
She’s also blind and lives with her supportive best friend, Jess, and more reluctantly, her trusty guide dog, Pretzel, whose presence she resents. Her closest friend is a sweet teenager named Tyson, whom she befriends after he saved her from a violent mugging.
Her life comes crashing down when she stumbles upon what she’s sure is the lifeless body of Tyson in the alley outside her apartment. But when the police arrive there is no body to be found, and with Murphy not exactly sober, the police aren’t especially inclined to investigate.
Determined to find the truth, no matter the risk, she’s down for the task, even if it means she has to sober up a little.
Ziwe
Iconic writer and comedian Ziwe Fumudoh, brings her singular, riotously funny and no-holds-barred brand to television.
Ziwe features interviews, sketches and more – including unscripted and unpredictable real-world rendezvous between her funny self, and everyday people.
Coyote
After thirty-two years with the U.S. Border Patrol, Ben Clemens (Michael Chiklis) is forced into mandatory retirement.
Agreeing to help the wife of his deceased ex-partner with renovations on a fishing cabin, Ben goes to a small coastal town in Mexico where he crosses paths with a pregnant 17-year-old waitress, María Elena who is caught up with the wrong kind of people.
What ensues is a dangerous journey through the desert where Ben is forced to work for the very people he spent his career trying to keep out of America, all while dragging his former colleague Garrett Cox (Aussie’s own George Pullar) into the wrong side of the law.
With limited options and his family’s lives at risk, he must attempt a desperate exit strategy — one with potentially dire consequences.
The Bite
The Bite, a six-episode satirical drama series from creators Robert and Michelle King (The Good Fight, The Good Wife, Evil), follows the lives of two neighbours, Rachel (Audra McDonald, The Good Fight) and Lily (Taylor Schilling, Orange is the New Black), as they navigate life in lockdown in New York City, when an unexpected, deadly second wave of the coronavirus arrives.
Rachel works from home treating her many telemedicine clients, as well as dealing with a shaky, passionless marriage to her husband Dr. Zach (Steven Pasquale, The Comey Rule) who has an important job on the front line of the outbreak at the CDC in Washington D.C.
Meanwhile, Lily is upstairs trying to convince her Wall Street clientele that her very specific skillset is still just as valuable over video as it was in person.
How will these women face unprecedented times, while juggling their careers, loved ones and possibly, the end of the world?
The Bite on Paramount+
Monsterland
Monsterland is a provocative horror anthology series that examines the monsters within and among us.
Telling a new story every episode, the series begins in Port Fourchon, LA, where a serial killer is terrorising the coastal town and 19-year-old mother, Toni DiMarco finds herself face-to-face with some horrifying truths.
Then, it’s stories from a New Orleans socialite who is wrestling with her past; a suburban lawyer who is debating life and death; a lonely teen who encounters an unwelcome guest; a woman who must decide how far she’s willing to go for a new life; an oil executive and his assistant who are both wrestling with their guilt; and a grieving couple struggling to say goodbye.