Spooky season is upon and Paramount+ has a busy month of new content to keep us going. For those looking for their horror fix, the YA-friends Monster High will debut this coming month. There’s even more exciting news for Star Trek fans are animated series Star Trek: Prodigy returns for new episodes at the end of the month.
Here are some of the highlights for October:
The Ex Wife
Paramount+ Original
Based on the hit psychological thriller of the same name. Tasha is living the dream: she has the perfect house, a loving husband and a beautiful little girl. But there’s one large blot on Tasha’s marital landscape: her husband’s ex-wife won’t leave them alone and seems intent on staying in the picture. When Tasha returns home one day to find her life turned upside down, she realises that the dream she is living may be about to turn into a nightmare.
The Ex-Wife is written by Catherine Steadman, who is also executive producer on the series alongside Mike Benson, Giuliano Papadia, Chiara Cardoso Olivia Pahl, Herbert Kloiber and the novel’s author Jess Ryder. Andy Morgan is producer and Brian O’Malley directs the series. Starring Celine Buckens, Tom Mison and Janet Montgomery.
The Ex Wife
Paramount+ Original
Inspired by the original hit Swedish novel and film, the series centers on Mark (Bichir) and his daughter Eleanor (Baez), whose lives were changed 10 years earlier when she was turned into a vampire. Locked in at age 12, perhaps forever, Eleanor lives a closed-in life, able to go out only at night, while her father does his best to provide her with the human blood she needs to stay alive. With these emotionally charged and terrifying ingredients as a starting point, Let The Right One In will upend genre expectations, turning a naturalistic lens on human frailty, strength and compassion.
Hauntings
Paramount+ Original
Paranormal details the most intriguing, terrifying and enduring paranormal cases in Britain and America. Made with a true-crime storytelling sensibility, this series will explore and unpack cases that have captured the public imagination for many years. These are stories that stand up to scrutiny, where suspected supernatural activity cannot simply be explained away. Each episode is an in-depth exploration of a case with exclusive contributions from those at the heart of the story. Combining personal testimony with archive and dramatic reconstruction, these stories of hauntings, poltergeists and exorcisms will take us on an exhilarating journey through a phenomena that has the power to transform lives.
The Executive Producers for Story Films are Peter Beard and Adam Hopkins, the Series Producer is Laura Matthews. The series was ordered by Daniel Pearl, Vice President, Unscripted UK Originals for Paramount+ UK.
Monster High
Monster High: The Movie follows Clawdeen Wolf, who was born half human and half werewolf, after she arrives at her new school, Monster High. She quickly makes friends with her classmates Frankie Stein, and Draculaura, and for the first time in her life, Clawdeen feels like she has finally found a place where she fits in and can truly be herself, despite keeping her human half a secret. When a devious plan to destroy Monster High threatens to reveal her real identity, Clawdeen must learn to embrace her true monster heart and find a way to save the day alongside her new friends.
Star Trek: Prodigy
Developed by Emmy® Award winners Kevin and Dan Hageman (Trollhunters and Ninjago), the CG-animated series Star Trek: Prodigy is the first Star Trek series aimed at younger audiences, and follows a motley crew of young aliens who must figure out how to work together while navigating a greater galaxy, in search of a better future. These six young outcasts know nothing about the ship they have commandeered – a first in the history of the Star Trek franchise – but over the course of their adventures together, they will each be introduced to Starfleet and the ideals it represents.
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