Paramount+ highlights for the month of January 2022 include the new season premiere of Five Bedrooms and exclusive series, Buried, Gossip, The Panthers and The Gilded Age.
Five Bedrooms
SATURDAY, 1 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE NEW SEASON PREMIERE / ALL EPISODES
Our Five Bedrooms surrogate family are more fiercely loving and functional than your average biological clan.
The arrangement that began as a risky short-term solution, is now an empirical success, a genuine long-term prospect, and maybe even a preferable version of family and life?
In season three, Evie’s nursery has been turned into a functioning bed and breakfast that is finally ready for its debut, there’s a break-up for the house to navigate, an opportunity to become a parent, and finally, the first Five Bedrooms wedding.
Each of these events strike at the core question of the life-affirming series – what’s the best way to live a life, and who are the best people to live that life with?
DREAM TEAM: Birth Of The Modern Athlete
SATURDAY, 1 JANUARY
ORIGINAL DOCO / ALL EPISODES
DREAM TEAM: Birth Of The Modern Athlete is a five-part documentary series that tells the uncensored story of the 1992 men’s Olympic basketball team.
Using unheard audio interviews and rare archival footage, the series shows how a once-in-a-lifetime super team changed sports on a global scale forever.
And it all kicks off with episode one, when Magic Johnson, Charles Barkley, and Michael Jordan enter a league that only a few years prior had been on the verge of collapse; against the backdrop of the 1980s, a generation of talent transforms the NBA into an economic powerhouse.
Buried
WEDNESDAY, 5 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE NEW SERIES / ALL EPISODES
In 1989, Eileen Franklin suddenly remembered what until then was a repressed memory, of her father George raping and then bludgeoning to death her best friend, Susan Nason, in 1969. At the time, both Eileen and Susan were 8 years old.
Franklin’s recall of that memory led to the arrest and trial of George Franklin for a brutal murder that went unsolved for 20 years.
In the four-part docuseries Buried, written and directed by Yotam Guendelman and Ari Pines, the first-of-its-kind case is recalled, including the aftermath where Franklin’s testimony was called into question by members of her own family.
Gossip
WEDNESDAY, 5 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE NEW SERIES / ALL EPISODES
A juicy four-part docuseries exploring the meteoric rise of tabloid media and the cut-throat players who blew up the news, GOSSIP digs deep into the ascent of Rupert Murdoch and America’s insatiable appetite for dirt featuring the New York Post’s Cindy Adams and a who’s-who of insider interviews.
Money, power, sex, fame: everything’s fair game when celebrity scoops and society scandals move from the margins to the mainstream and column inches turn into currency that could destroy reputations or even make a President.
RENO 911!: The Hunt For QAnon
FRIDAY, 7 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL
The entire original crew of Reno 911! return to hunt down the enigmatic Q.
In the long-running series’ new special, Deputies Dangle, Wiegel, Jonesy, and more will… well, hunt for QAnon, attempting to track down the source of all the maddening conspiracy theories that have flooded the planet over the last few years.
What’ll happen when they discover they’ve landed on Jeffrey Epstein’s old island?
The Game
FRIDAY, 7 JANUARY
ORIGINAL SERIES / ALL EPISODES
Relocating from San Diego to Sin City after a six-year hiatus, The Game returns to offer a modern-day examination of Black culture through the prism of pro football.
The team tackle racism, sexism, classism and more as they fight for fame, fortune, respect and love – all while trying to maintain their souls as they each play, The Game.
Good Sam
FRIDAY, 7 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE NEW SERIES / EVERY FRIDAY
Good Sam focuses on Dr. Samantha Griffith (Sophia
Bush, One Tree Hill, Chicago P.D) as she learns the ropes as the new top surgeon at Lakeshore Sentinel
Hospital, a role she’s had ever since the legendary leader of the place – her father (Jason Isaac, Harry Potter, Black Hawk Down, The Patriot) – fell into a coma.
But complications have set in. Having recovered, the elder doc wants to resume his duties. Sam can only relent, right? The result is a clash of family wills between old guard and new methods in a life-and-death business.
27th Annual Critics Choice Awards
TUESDAY, 11 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE SPECIAL EVENT
The annual ceremony recognises the best films and television shows of a given year, as voted on by the 500-member-plus Critics Choice Association.
The awards spotlight the best actors, directors and writers while also honoring technical and behind-the-scenes prowess.
This year, Paramount+ nominated content includes Evil, The Good Fight, Yellowjackets and Ghost.
The Panthers
THURSDAY, 13 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE NEW SERIES / ALL EPISODES
1974, Auckland, New Zealand. Will ‘Ilolahia (Dimitrius Schuster-Koloamatangi), the black sheep of his Tongan family and “The Professor” of the streets, is sick of seeing his community stuck in a broken system.
When Trump-esque Prime Minister, Robert Muldoon (Roy Billing), comes to power, he wreaks havoc; fuelling the divide between white and Polynesian New Zealanders and commencing racially-targeted Immigration raids.
Inspired by the Black Panther movement in the USA, Will and a group of young street gangsters and university students form The Polynesian Panthers, to fight the system and become the history making Revolutionaries that their community so desperately need them to be.
A Quiet Place II
FRIDAY, 14 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE FEATURE FILM
Following the deadly events at home, the Abbott family must now face the terrors of the outside world as they continue their fight for survival in silence.
Forced to venture into the unknown, they quickly realise that the creatures that hunt by sound are not the only threats that lurk beyond the sand path.
Ray Donovan: The Movie
SATURDAY, 16 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE FEATURE FILM
Ray Donovan is back with a bang!
The new film picks up where season seven left off, with Mickey in the wind and Ray determined to find and stop him before he can cause any more carnage.
It will also weave together the present-day fallout from the Donovan/Sullivan feud with Ray and Mickey’s origin story from 30 years ago.
One Last Time: An Evening With Tony Bennett And Lady Gaga
SATURDAY, 22 JANUARY
SPECIAL EVENT
This new concert special honours the musical legacy and enduring friendship of Tony Bennett and Lady Gaga.
Filmed at two sold out shows at Radio City Music Hall in August 2021 to celebrate Bennett’s 95th birthday, the live concert brings together the two incredible entertainers performing duets and solo songs honoring their shared love of the Great American Songbook.
The Gilded Age
WEDNESDAY, 26 JANUARY
EXCLUSIVE NEW SERIES/ EVERY WEDNESDAY
From the creators of Downton Abbey, comes an epic drama following the millionaire titans of New York City in the 1880s.
In a new world, a new age is about to begin.
The Gilded Age begins in 1882 with young Marian Brook (Luisa Jacobson) moving from rural Pennsylvania to New York City after the death of her father to live with her thoroughly old money aunts Agnes van Rhijn (Christine Baranski) and Ada Brook (Cynthia Nixon).
Exposed to a world on the brink of the modern age, will Marian follow the established rules of society, or forge her own path?
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