Paramount+ announces Australian made original series

ViacomCBS Australia & New Zealand today announced its global digital subscription video streaming service, Paramount+, will launch in Australia on Wednesday, 11 August 2021. The library for the platform is going to include a number of Australian made original series.

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Produced by Northern Pictures and filmed in Melbourne, Spreadsheet is a comedy series about divorced, hectic mother-of-two, Lauren played by Katherine Parkinson (The IT Crowd, Doc Martin), who is looking for sex without commitment.

With the help of best friend Alex, she develops “Spreadsheet”: a database of sex options, customised to ensure her sushi train of sex rolls around with variety and order amidst the chaos of her life. What Lauren didn't expect was a slew of needy men, which apparently even a well-managed excel tracker can't control.

Based on the best-selling autobiography of John Ibrahim and produced by Helium, Last King of The Cross is a story of two brothers, Sam and John Ibrahim, one worshipped by his father and the other scorned. In organising the street, they lose each other across their ascent to power. Coupled with a fractured sense of identity, culture and family, Sam and John discover that blood is thicker than water, but you can drown in both.

A coming-of-age feature film, 6 Festivals is about three 16-year-old best friends – Maxie, Summer and James. Running from the terminal illness James is facing, they bucket-list six music festivals over six months. Over their six- month journey they meet up-and-coming artist, Marley, whose own challenges and success will help them to accept the reality they so want to avoid. Backed by an impressive all-Australian soundtrack, 6 Festivals is produced by Invisible Republic and Hype Republic.

To celebrate the launch of Paramount+, audiences will be able to watch season two of the Australian drama, Five Bedrooms. Starring Kat Stewart, Stephen Peacocke, Doris Younane, Roy Joseph, Katie Robertson and Hugh Sheridan, this surrogate family is once again leaping into the property market having lost their first communal home at auction.

Spreadsheet has received major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Film Victoria. Five Bedrooms received major production investment from 10 ViacomCBS in association with Screen Australia and has been developed and produced with the assistance of Film Victoria.

6 Festivals has received major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Paramount+. Financed with support from Sony Music, with Boom Smash, Screen Canberra and Screen Queensland.