STAN AND PARAMOUNT ANNOUNCE NEW OUTPUT AGREEMENT
The new long-term deal will bring an incredible lineup of highly anticipated new TV shows exclusively to Stan
Stan continues to align with the world’s greatest content creators, today announcing a new multi-year output agreement with Paramount Pictures that will give Stan exclusive rights in Australia to a broad selection of Paramount’s top outstanding new television series and blockbuster films.
The new Paramount TV Licensing and Distribution deal expands Stan’s range of long-term agreements, which includes existing arrangements with Showtime, Starz and MGM; and cements Stan’s position as Australia’s home of premium must-see TV from both the major Hollywood studios and local production houses.
Paramount Television’s Looking For Alaska will be the first series to launch, premiering exclusively on Stan in Australia on October 19. Produced for HULU, the eight-part limited series is based on the book of the same name by John Green (The Fault In Our Stars, Paper Towns) and will star Kristine Froseth (The Truth About the Harry Quebert Affair) and Charlie Plummer (All The Money In The World).
Other projects currently in development from Paramount Television include Made for Love and Station Eleven for HBO Max, the Sexy Beast prequel series for Paramount Channel Network, plus the Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio murder mystery Devil in the White City and Anne Rice’s The Vampire Chronicles, both for HULU.
The hugely anticipated The Great, also produced for HULU by MRC Television, will premiere exclusively on Stan in 2020. Starring Elle Fanning (Maleficent, The Beguiled) and Nicholas Hoult (The Favourite, Mad Max: Fury Road, X-Men: Dark Phoenix), the drama series follows Catherine the Great and her rise to power after marrying the Emperor of Russia. Australian writer and Academy® Award nominee Tony McNamara (The Favourite) is writer and showrunner.
The new deal will also see hundreds of Paramount’s biggest feature films and franchises added to the service in the coming month, including the Mission: Impossible, Transformers, and Star Trek franchises, in addition to celebrated favourites like Top Gun, The Godfather Trilogy and many more.
“Paramount has built a fantastic slate of premium scripted television series in addition to their iconic box office blockbusters, legendary film franchises and library of classics,” said Mike Sneesby, CEO of Stan. “We’re thrilled to expand our relationship with Paramount under this new long-term output agreement as part of our ongoing commitment to bring the world’s greatest TV series and movies to Australians.”
“We are extremely pleased to continue working with Stan with this long term deal to bring some of Paramount Television’s most anticipated new shows exclusively to the service’s discriminating subscribers,” said Jonathan Greenberg, SVP Regional Sales Asia Pacific for Paramount Pictures Television Licensing & Distribution. “These programs, along with films from Paramount’s world-renowned library, further enhance Stan’s impressive lineup of premium entertainment.”
About Stan
Stan is Australia’s leading local subscription video-on-demand streaming service provider with unrivalled studio partnerships including MGM, Disney, Lionsgate and now Paramount. Through these partners Stan offers unlimited access to thousands of hours of premium entertainment, with an outstanding line-up of feature movies and exclusive TV series premieres such as The Loudest Voice, City on a Hill, Perpetual Grace LTD, Billions, Twin Peaks, Power, Escape at Dannemora, Younger and more.
Stan is also the unrivalled home of original Australian productions. Stan Originals include the AACTA Award winning and Logie Award nominated series No Activity and Wolf Creek, the critically acclaimed and Logie-Award winning drama series Romper Stomper and Bloom (featuring a Logie Award-winning performance by Jacki Weaver), and Stan Original film The Second (featuring Susie Porter in a Logie Award-nominated performance). Vicki Madden’s The Gloaming starring Emma Booth, Ewen Leslie and Aaron Pedersen; The Other Guy: Season 2 with Matt Okine, Harriet Dyer, Claudia Karvan and Lily Sullivan with Gracie Otto on directing duties; and The Commons filming in Sydney and starring Joanne Frogatt and Damon Herriman, are also currently in production. For more information, visit stan.com.au.
About Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution
Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution (PWTLD) is part of Paramount Pictures Corporation (PPC), a global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment. PPC is a unit of Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA), home to premier media brands that create television programs, motion pictures, consumer products, and digital content for audiences in 180 countries and territories. The PWTLD division is responsible for licensing Paramount Pictures’ feature films and television programming for exhibition across all forms of linear channels as well as on-demand services around the world.



