In 2027 Paramount+ is set to bring A-list Hollywood stars to homegrown hits and some of the best kids and family franchises around to its content slate in 2027.
New Australian originals
Mushroom Murders* There’s More To Unearth is a new limited drama series starring and executive produced by multi-Emmy nominee actress, Melanie Lynskey (Yellowjackets, Don’t Say Good Luck).
In 2023, Erin Patterson (Melanie Lynskey) served individual beef wellingtons to her estranged in-laws and their relatives at a lunch in her Victoria home in Australia. Unbeknownst to her guests, Patterson allegedly prepared the food with highly toxic death cap mushrooms, resulting in the deaths of three guests. The limited series depicts the 97 days between the now infamous lunch and Patterson’s subsequent arrest.
In a more more positive note, Paramount+ is producing a show about Matilda’s star Sam Kerr. Titled Sam Kerr Kicking Goals, Paramount+ is set to bring a brand-new live-action series inspired by the life of Kerr.
Based off the hit book series co-written by Sam Kerr and Fiona Harris, the series is a live-action adaptation set way before Kerr became captain of the Matildas and Chelsea FC. Before she was one of the best strikers of all time, Kerr was just an 11-year-old in Western Australia, learning some life lessons along the path to greatness along with her best friends, juggling school, family, football, and all the obstacles and adventures of growing up.
Also coming to Paramount+ in 2027 is:
Hedley Thomas Investigates: Journalist Hedley Thomas is one of Australia’s most trusted voices when it comes to true crime. And now, the journalist behind The Teacher’s Pet podcast brings his unique style to Paramount+ with Hedley Thomas Investigates.
Across six self-contained episodes, Hedley will explore six true crime cases, unpacking each investigation clue by clue and offering fresh insights that challenge what we thought we knew.
The Inspired Unemployed Sketch Show:The Inspired Unemployed return to Paramount+ with a sketch show that takes them back to their roots and doubles down on what they do best – relatable
comedy sketches that have everyone around the world talking and sharing.
From fast-paced sketches around relationships to mateship, Australian culture and the millennial experience, The Inspired Unemployed Sketch Show will feature recurring characters, celebrity cameos and everything you’ve grown to love about these viral sensations.
These new Australian originals join brand new seasons of returning favourites including Last King of the Cross season three, NCIS: Sydney season four and Aussie Shore season three, which is now streaming on Paramount+.
Plus, Australian original drama, Who The Hell Is Hamish?, will premiere on the platform later this year. The six-episode drama features an all-star ensemble cast led by Dominic Cooper and Claire van der Boom and is based on the true story of industrial fraudster Hamish McLaren, and the victims who banded together to take him down.
Sport
In 2027, Paramount+ will be the destination for the FIFA Women’s World Cup Brazil 2027, with every single game in the tournament available to watch live on the platform, including our very own Matildas.
Football fans can watch every single match of the AFC Asian Cup Saudi Arabia 2027 exclusively on Paramount+, which kicks off in January, plus all Matildas and Socceroos international friendlies on Paramount+, and both A-League Men and Ninja A-League seasons.
UFC continues on Paramount+, with every UFC Fight Night, Numbered Event Prelims and the return to Sydney for UFC Fight Night with rising Australian lightweight Quillan Salkilld facing French powerhouse Benoît Saint Denis in February. Paramount+ is also your exclusive home for Zuffa Boxing.
New International Content
Discretion: A legal thriller with an all-star cast featuring Nicole Kidman, Elle Fanning, Josh Lucas, Stephan James, and Colton Ryan. Discretion based on a short story by New York Times best-selling author Chandler Baker, follows Lenny (Fanning) a lawyer who uncovers a web of NDAs that masks a dark corporate secret.
Realising she has signed the same agreement, Lenny finds herself in a dangerous battle with the firm’s most powerful partner, Sharon (Kidman).
The Best Of Us: Starring Emmy and Tony winner and Oscar nominee Jeremy Strong, Oscar nominee Andrea Riseborough and Emmy winner Barry Pepper, The Best Of Us is an upcoming limited series inspired by the true events surrounding the real-life lawsuit to secure compensation for first responders who fell ill in the wake of 9/11.
Laird: From the minds behind MobLand and The Agency comes Laird, an epic family saga set in the Scottish Highlands, starring Academy Award winner Kenneth Branagh. Defying a shady American billionaire hellbent on buying up the glens, the Laird of Castle Drummoch (Branagh) remains determined to protect his ancestral lands from oligarchical land grabbing. Branagh stars
alongside an all-star ensemble cast including Peter Sarsgaard, Jennifer Ehle, Peter Mullan, Phia Saban and Ruaridh Mollica.
Fear Not: Starring and executive produced by Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, Fear Not is based on a 2023 Vanity Fair article that detailed the incredible true story of serial killer Stephen Morin and Margy Palm, the last woman he ever kidnapped, and the unlikely relationship they formed that saved her life and led to his arrest.
Trauma: Golden Globe winner Richard Madden stars as Jim Marchant, a former Royal Marines medic turned ER doctor who finds himself trapped inside a London hospital when terrorists seize the building and take the Prime Minister hostage during surgery.
Clueless: No, you’re not totally buggin’, Cher is back and better than ever. Picking up three decades after the iconic movie Clueless, Alicia Silverstone reprises her role of Cher Horowitz in this upcoming sequel series. Now a successful businesswoman with her own daughter entering high school, Cher finds that parenting a teen makes her feel, ahem, clueless all over again.
Frisco King: Taylor Sheridan expands his Tulsa King universe with Frisco King, a spin-off starring Samuel L. Jackson, reprising his role of Russell Lee Washington Jr., who appeared in Season 3 of Tulsa King. After declining an assignment to kill Dwight Manfredi (Sylvester Stallone), hitman Russell Lee Washington Jr. sets out to start a new life – and enterprise – in Frisco, Texas.
Making Love: From the creators of Love Is Blind comes a new unscripted series hosted by comedian and podcaster, Hannah Berner. Making Love is a bold new relationship experiment that “places destiny into the hands of hopeful singles attempting to turn their desires into love that lasts a lifetime”.
Returning Global Hits
Returning to Paramount+ is Dexter: Resurrection season two, MobLand season three, Dutton Ranch season two, Marshals season two, Landman season three, Star Trek: Starfleet Academy season two, The Madison season two, Tulsa King season five, The Gilded Age season four, Mayor of Kingstown season five, Avatar: Seven Havens season two, Yellowjackets season four and South Park season 29.
Some of the year’s biggest movies will also be coming to the platform, including Street Fighter, Focker-in-Law, Sonic the Hedgehog 4, Scary Movie, Children of Blood and Bone, Coyote vs. Acme, and Billie Eilish: Hit Me Hard and Soft – The Tour.
When it comes to family-friendly fun for kids of all ages, Paramount+ will offer PAW Patrol, SpongeBob SquarePants, Zac Power, The Angry Birds Movie 3 and PAW Patrol: The Dino Movie.
