Paramount+ launch: Nine TV shows and movies to watch on new streaming service

Are you ready for yet another new streaming service, because it’s here. And it has a new Mark Wahlberg movie you won’t find anywhere else.

Wait, what, another streaming platform?

Technically, Paramount+ is not a new one. Rather, it’s a relaunch of 10 All Access, a subscription streaming service Channel 10 debuted almost three years ago.

However, it’s clear Channel 10 is investing a lot more into Paramount+ given the bevy of new TV shows and movies flooding onto the platform. You’ve probably seen the promos running on 10’s free-to-air network, with the stars and peaks of Paramount’s familiar logo.

With 15-plus streaming platforms crying out for attention and money (Paramount+ is $8.99 a month or $89.99 a year), it’s a tough choice for Australian families as to whether or not they have the time and money to add another one into their rotation.

But if you are in the market, Paramount+ is live from today on a variety of platforms including Apple TV, Google TV, Fetch TV, Telstra TV, Sony TVs, Amazon Fire TV and on smartphones and tablets.

If you were an existing 10 All Access customer, the apps have been decommissioned and you’ll need to download Paramount+, but your login details remain the same.

Here are the TV and movie highlights for Paramount+ at launch, while past that you’ll find a full list of all the TV shows and films available today, compiled by Always Be Watching’s Dan Barrett.

WHY WOMEN KILL S2

Allison Tolman and Lana Parrilla in Why Women Kill S2.

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Who’s in it? Lana Parrilla, Allison Tolman, Nick Frost

What’s it about? The first season told three different stories over three time periods about women whose husbands led them to violence, but the second season is more focused, with a single story set in the 1940s. It’s centred on a friendless housewife who wants nothing more than to join the glamorous garden club – but the social Queen Bee won’t have someone so “frumpy” among their ranks.

Try it if you liked:Why Women Kill S1, Desperate Housewives, Good Girls, The Flight Attendant

INFINITE

Infinite was originally to be released in cinemas.

Who’s in it? Mark Wahlberg, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Rupert Friend, Sophie Cookson

What’s it about? In this sci-fi action thriller, Evan McCauley has memories he hasn’t lived and skills he never learnt – which all makes sense when it’s revealed he’s an “infinite”, someone who has lived many lives and is reborn with what came before. Tapping into a secretive network, he must save the world from another infinite who finds the burden of reincarnation all too much.

Try it if you liked:The Old Guard, Gemini Man, Mission Impossible, Lucy

ANNE BOLEYN

Jodie Turner-Smith as Queen Anne Boleyn.

Who’s in it? Jodie Turner-Smith, Paapa Essiedu, Mark Stanley

What’s it about? The final months of Henry VIII’s doomed second wife, a woman who has been vilified by history as a manipulative adulterer. By casting a black actor, Jodie Turner-Smith, as one of England’s most memorable and controversial Queens, the three-part miniseries aims to have a different conversation about power in a social and political structure that punishes women and outsiders.

Try it if you if you liked:The Tudors, Gunpowder, Vanity Fair, Wolf Hall, Mrs America, John Adams

TWO WEEKS TO LIVE

Maisie Williams is on another revenge mission.

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Who’s in it? Maisie Williams, Sian Clifford

What’s it about? A young woman raised off-the-grid by her paranoid survivalist mother is pranked by a couple of strangers who tell her the world is ending in two weeks. With what she thinks is a limited countdown clock on humanity, she sets out to avenge her father’s death at the hands of crime boss.

Try it if you liked:The End of the F**king World, Daybreak, Sex Education

EVERYONE IS DOING GREAT

Former teen heart-throbs try to find purpose.

Who’s in it? James Lafferty, Stephen Colletti, Alexandra Park

What’s it about? Created, written and directed by One Tree Hill stars James Lafferty and Stephen Colletti, the duo plays two actors and former teen heart-throbs (taking a page out of their own lives) whose TV show ended five years ago. The offers have dried up, fame fades and everything is a mess.

Try it if you liked:Hello Ladies, Difficult People, You’re the Worst, Pen15, Don’t Trust the B in Apartment 23, Broad City

FIVE BEDROOMS S2

The property market is so brutal.

Who’s in it? Kat Stewart, Stephen Peacocke, Doris Younane, Roy Joseph, Katie Robertson

What’s it about? It continues the story of five single people who met at a wedding and decides to pool their money together to buy into Australia’s competitive housing market. Expect lots of drama – renovations, pregnancies, exes and a tragedy. The first season was broadcast on free-to-air but the second season will be a streaming exclusive.

Try it if you liked:The Secret Life of Us, New Girl, Offspring, Crashing

THE BITE (August 25)

You know what they say about idle hands.

Who’s in it? Audra McDonald, Taylor Schilling, Steven Pasquale, Philippa Soo

What’s it about? This satirical horror comedy is set during the present covid pandemic in New York City, in the home of a doctor who notices some strange symptoms during a virtual call with her patient. If covid wasn’t enough, now there’s a zombie plague too?

Try it if you like:Ghosted, Ash versus the Evil Dead, Truth Seekers

ICARLY

iCarly returns after almost 10 years away.

Who’s in it? Miranda Cosgrove, Jerry Trainor, Nathan Kress

What’s it about? Almost 10 years after the Nickelodeon teen series signed off, the revival reunites the original cast. Carly Shay and her friends found early fame with a web series before everyone else was doing them, becoming influencers before there was even a name for it. Now in their 20s, the more grown-up crew has to work out the balance of work, life and love.

Try it if you liked:iCarly original series, Younger, The Bold Type, Lizzie Maguire

EVIL S2 (August 24)

The series is written by The Good Wife creators Robert and Michelle King.

Who’s in it? Katja Herbers, Mike Colter, Aasif Mandvi, Michael Emerson

What’s it about? A scientist and believer walk into church. No, seriously, that’s how it starts, more or less. Kristen is a forensic psychologist hired by the church to investigate supernatural incidents to determine whether it involves demons or mental illness. She’s a sceptic and her partner David is a believer, but even she sees things she can’t explain with logic.

Try it if you liked: The X-Files, Millennium, The Good Wife, Servant, The OA