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TEHRAN, part of the highlights this May on APPLE TV+

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Apple+ TV highlights for the month of May include Tehran, The Big Conn, The Essex Serpent, Greatness Code, Now & Then and Prehistoric Planet.

Tehran

New season

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The international Emmy Award-winning global espionage thriller “Tehran” returns for season two with two-time Emmy Award winner and Academy Award nominee Glenn Close joining the ensemble cast alongside returning stars Niv Sultan, who returns as Mossad agent Tamar Rabinyan, as well as Shaun Toub and Shervin Alenabi. “Tehran” tells the thrilling story of a Mossad agent who goes deep undercover on a dangerous mission in Tehran that places her and everyone around her in dire jeopardy. The series is created by Moshe Zonder, Dana Eden and Maor Kohn, and directed by Daniel Syrkin.

The second season of “ Tehran” will debut with the first two episodes on Friday, 6 May, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday.

The Big Conn

New docuseries + podcast

A new four-part documentary series that tells the unbelievable true story of larger-than-life attorney, Eric C. Conn, who defrauded the government and taxpayers over half a billion dollars in the largest Social Security fraud case in United States history. All four parts of the series will premiere alongside an Apple TV+ Original companion podcast that will explore Conn’s con and outrageous lifestyle further with additional interviews and behind-the-scenes details.

Created by Emmy Award-nominated filmmakers James Lee Hernandez and Brian Lazarte, “The Big Conn” is produced by FunMeter (“McMillion$”), with Hernandez, Lazarte, and Peter King serving as executive producers, and Matt Kaye and Shannon Pence joining as co-executive producers.

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“The Big Conn” series and podcast will make their global debut 6 May on Apple TV+ and Apple Podcasts, respectively.

The Essex Serpent

Starring Claire Danes and Tom Hiddleston,“The Essex Serpent” is a new Apple Original drama series adapted from Sarah Perry’s bestselling and 2016 British Book Award-winning novel of the same name. The series follows newly widowed Cora (played by Claire Danes) who, having being released from an abusive marriage, relocates from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature known as the Essex Serpent has returned to the area.

“The Essex Serpent” is directed by Clio Barnard (“The Selfish Giant,” “The Arbor”) and adapted from the novel by Anna Symon (“Deep Water,” “Mrs Wilson”).

“The Essex Serpent” will premiere globally with the first two episodes on Friday, 13 May on Apple TV+, and new episodes will premiere weekly.

Greatness Code

New season

The second season of Emmy Award-winning unscripted sports series “Greatness Code” will return with six brand-new installments spotlighting six new athletes: English professional footballer and children’s campaigner Marcus Rashford; Super Bowl champion NFL quarterback Russell Wilson; six-time X Games gold medalist and professional street skateboarder Leticia Bufoni; Parapan American Track & Field Champion Scout Bassett; Bubba Wallace, the first African-American driver to win a race in NASCAR’s premier series since 1963; and four-time World Cup champion alpine ski racer, Olympic Gold Medal winner, author and entrepreneur Lindsey Vonn.

In “Greatness Code,” iconic athletes pull back the curtain on a pivotal career moment when they touched greatness. A stylised hybrid of live action and visual effects, this short-form docuseries sheds new light on the sports legends you thought you knew. The series is co-produced by UNINTERRUPTED and Religion of Sports, and directed by Religion of Sports’ co-founder Gotham Chopra,

All six episodes of the second season will premiere globally on Friday, 13 May on Apple TV+.

Now and Then

New Spanish and English language series

Set in Miami, “Now and Then” is an eight-episode bilingual and multi-layered thriller told in Spanish and English that explores the differences between youthful aspirations and the reality of adulthood, when the lives of a group of college best friends are forever changed after a celebratory weekend ends up with one of them dead. Now, 20 years later, the remaining five are reluctantly reunited by a threat that puts their seemingly perfect worlds at risk. The exceptional ensemble cast includes Academy Award nominees Marina de Tavira and Rosie Perez, Ariel Award winner José María Yazpik, multi-Goya Award winner Maribel Verdú, Manolo Cardona, Goya Award winner Soledad Villamil, Emmy Award winner Željko Ivanek, Jorge López, Alicia Jaziz, Dario Yazbek Bernal, Alicia Sanz, Jack Duarte and Miranda de la Serna.

“Now and Then” will premiere globally on Apple TV+ with the first three episodes on Friday, 20 May, followed by one new episode weekly every Friday.

Prehistoric Planet

New natural history event series

Set to debut globally on Apple TV+ from Monday, 23 May through Friday, 27 May, “Prehistoric Planet” is a new, highly anticipated natural history event series from executive producers Jon Favreau and Mike Gunton, and BBC Studios Natural History Unit (“Planet Earth”), and narrated by Sir David Attenborough. The five-episode groundbreaking series will transport viewers 66 million years in the past to discover our world — and the dinosaurs that roamed it — all in stunning detail and set to an original score by multiple Academy Award winner Hans Zimmer.

Rolling out with one new episode per day, “Prehistoric Planet” combines award-winning wildlife filmmaking, the latest paleontology learnings and state-of-the-art technology to unveil the spectacular habitats and inhabitants of ancient Earth for a one-of-a-kind immersive experience. This series is produced by the world-renowned team at BBC Studios Natural History Unit with support from the photorealistic visual effects of MPC (“The Lion King,” “The Jungle Book”). “Prehistoric Planet” presents little-known and surprising facts of dinosaur life set against the backdrop of the environments of Cretaceous times, including coasts, deserts, freshwater, ice worlds and forests. From revealing eye-opening parenting techniques of Tyrannosaurus rex to exploring the mysterious depths of the oceans and the deadly dangers in the sky, “Prehistoric Planet” brings Earth’s history to life like never before.

“Prehistoric Planet” will roll out with one new episode per day for five days from Monday, 23 May through Friday, 27 May on Apple TV+.

Apple TV+ is available on the Apple TV app in over 100 countries and regions, on over 1 billion screens, including iPhone, iPad, Apple TV, Mac, popular smart TVs from Samsung, LG, Sony, TCL and others, Roku and Amazon Fire TV devices, Chromecast with Google TV, PlayStation and Xbox gaming consoles, and at tv.apple.com/au, for A$7.99 inc. GST per month with a seven-day free trial. 

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