Paramount+ has been a massive success. Although the service launched in October 2014 in the US, it went global in 2021 and then came to the UK last June. By early August it had 43.3 million paid customers worldwide.
And as would be expected from the Hollywood production company, its streaming site offers a whopping collection of films: think Grease, Scream, Top Gun, with Top Gun: Maverick expected this year, Transformers, Pulp Fiction, Mean Girls, the original Flashdance, Mission Impossible I, II and III, six Star Trek films including 2009’s reboot Star Trek starring Chris Pine, plus Skyfall, Anchorman and A Quiet Place.
Plus, there’s stuff for kids too, including Fairly Odd Parents: Fairly Odder, Kamp Koral: Spongebob’s Under Years, Big Nate and PAW Patrol.
Paramout+ has also been putting a lot of effort into dropping new shows and films every month, while also creating their own premium content. For example, in December they released the American Western drama 1883, by Sicario writer Taylor Sheridan.
And this month the streamer is showing no signs of slowing down, with new material being added throughout September. Here’s our round-up of the best new content coming to Paramount+ this month.
Series
Son of a Critch (Season 1)
Created by Canadian actor Mark Critch and Candian writer Tim McAuliffe, this semi-autobiographical coming-of-age series is based on Critch’s own memoir. It’s about an 11-year-old Mark Critch living in Newfoundland and Labrador in the Eighties.
Full Season (13 episodes) available now
American Gigolo (Season 1)
A remake of the 1980 film of the same name, this series has Jon Bernthal taking over Richard Gere’s infamous role as a male escort in Los Angeles. Rosie O’Donnell will be playing Detective Sunday and Leland Orser (Se7en) will be playing Richard Stratton. This time it’s 15 years after protagonist Julian Kaye has been arrested for murder. He’s trying to reconnect with his love and is trying to find out who framed him and sent him to prison.
Episode 1 is available now (new episodes weekly)
Minx (Season 1)
Ophelia Lovibond and Jake Johnson (Jurassic World) star in this comedy series about a feminist in the Seventies in Los Angeles who makes the first women’s erotic magazine. Will & Grace’s Michael Angarano also stars.
Full Season (10 episodes) available now
Yellowstone (Season 4)
This neo-Western drama series created by Taylor Sheridan (who was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award for writing the screenplay for Sicario) and John Linson (who produced Great Expectations and The Runaways) is about the disputes that take place between land developers and a ranch-owning family along a border with an Indian reservation.
Starring Kevin Costner, Luke Grimes (The Magnificent Seven), Wes Bentley (Mission: Impossible – Fallout) and Kelly Reilly (Sherlock Holmes) the fourth series has tonnes of new faces including Jacki Weaver (Silver Linings Playbook) and Kathryn Kelly (Dolly Parton's Heartstrings). The series has earned over a dozen award nominations since its 2018 release, including a Screen Actors Guild Awards nomination in January.
On September 21 the series continues (Episode 8/10)
Are You The One? Second Chances (Season 1)
Are You The One? is an MTV reality TV series where men and women are secretly paired up by an algorithm. Then, while all living together, the series’ contestants have to try to work out which are the chosen “perfect matches”. In this spin-off series, 10 of fans’ favourite matches from the original series are put back into a house together and tested (again) with missions. The show is hosted by hosted by Queer Eye’s Karamo Brown.
Full Season (10 episodes) available from September 21
City On A Hill (Season 3)
This American crime drama stars Kevin Bacon, Aldis Hodge (Black Adam) and Jonathan Tucker (Charlie’s Angels) and is based on a story by Charlie MacLean and Ben Affleck. It’s set in Boston in the early Nineties. There’s an assistant DA and a hardened FBI veteran. In the city steeped in racism, corruption and criminality the duo make an unlikely alliance.
On September 19 the series continues (Episode 7/8)
Savage River (Season 1)
This six-part Australian series is about Miki Anderson (played by Golden Globe-nominated Katherine Langford) who returns to her hometown after an eight-year stint in prison looking for peace and quiet and a fresh start. But then there’s a murder. Everyone, naturally, suspects her and the drama ensues. Australian actor Mark Coles Smith (Picnic at Hanging Rock) also stars.
Episodes 1 and 2 are available from September 22 (then new episodes weekly)
Beavis and Butt-Head (Season 1)
Perhaps you were a massive fan of the teenage layabouts in the nineties, perhaps you got involved when the cartoon was revived in 2011 for an eighth series, or perhaps this is your introduction to the lowbrow comedy series from Mike Judge (who also created The Goode Family, Silicon Valley and King of the Hill). But whether you’re a new or old fan, it’s exciting news that Beavis and Butt-Head are back for this brand new Paramount+ exclusive series – still voiced by creator Judge.
On September 23 the series continues (Episode 9/12)
Films
Each And Every Day (2021)
This documentary from award-winning director Alexandra Shiva is about nine young people who have had suicidal ideas or actually attempted suicide. The film was first shown on MTV in February and was released on Paramount+ on World Suicide Prevention Day.
Available now
Unplugging (2022)
This romantic-comedy stars Eva Longoria and Matt Walsh (Veep) as a couple who go to a remote mountain town in order to try to revive their marriage. They’re going for a digital detox – hence the film’s name – and come across some unusual characters during their trip.
Available from September 16
Girl in the Box: The True Story
20-year-old Colleen Stan was kidnapped while she was hitchhiking between Oregon and California in 1977. Then she was held captive for seven years, kept in a coffin-sized box for up to 23 hours a day and used as a childminder and sex slave. This two-part Paramount+exclusive documentary will detail Stan’s ordeal and includes discussions with Stan about torture, rape and coercion.
Both episodes are available from September 19
Older films
Footloose (2011)
A remake of the 1984 film of the same name, this feel-good musical dance film stars Kenny Wormald (Honey 3: Dare to Dance), singer Julianne Hough, Miles Teller (Top Gun: Maverick), Andie MacDowell (Four Weddings and a Funeral) and Dennis Quaid (The Parent Trap). Ren McCormack moves to a small Southern town from Boston where dancing and loud music have been banned. Ren challenges the ban, energises the town, and falls in love, too.
Available now
The Survivalist (2021)
This action-thriller stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers and John Malkovich and tells the story of a world that’s been destroyed by a Covid variant. Yes, perhaps a little bit close for comfort. There’s a religious fanatic who is hunting a woman, a refugee camp, doctors, talk of symptoms and cures. Eeek. It’s always a joy to see Malkovich on screen if you can stomach the general premise.
Available now
Girl In The Box (2016)
Based on the true story of Colleen Stan’s kidnap and imprisonment in 1977, this film by Witches of Salem director Stephen Kemp stars Addison Timlin (American Horror Stories), Zane Holtz (The Perks of Being a Wallflower) and Zelda Williams (Were the World Mine).
Available from September 19
