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Paramount+ highlights for the month of March include Three Months, The Desperate Hour, More Than This, Love Tom, The Requin, Real World Homecoming: NY, Charmed, No Return, 27th Critics’ Choice Awards, Real World Homecoming: LA and Halo.


Three Months

TUESDAY, 1 MARCH

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EXCLUSIVE FEATURE FILM

It’s amazing what you can discover when life gets screwed up.

A darkly comedic, coming-of-age film, that tells the story or Caleb (Aussie superstar Troye Sivan), a punk gay teenager from Miami who is exposed to HIV the weekend of his high school graduation.

Unsure of his future, he starts a new relationship with someone from his support group as he waits the three months it takes to get tested.

The Desperate Hour

THURSDAY, 3 MARCH

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EXCLUSIVE FEATURE FILM

Naomi Watts returns in a riveting and pulse pounding thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce.

Unfolding in real time, The Desperate Hour follows the recently widowed mother Amy Carr (Academy Award-nominee Naomi Watts) who is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town.

As she’s on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as a shooting takes place at her son’s school. Miles away on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her son.

More Than This

FRIDAY, 4 MARCH

ORIGINAL NEW AUSSIE SERIES / EVERY EPISODE

Ground-breaking, six-part Australian original drama series, More Than This, is written by teens for teens.

A real, authentic and often raw story of five 17-year-old students and their teacher, whose diverse worlds collide when they are thrown together into a Year 12 English class.

Creator, writer and lead actor, Olivia Deeble (The Secret Society of Second Born Royals, Home and Away) stars as the series explores the unique challenges facing Australian teenagers as they come of age: social, family and school pressures, bullying, body image, relationships and sexuality.

Love, Tom

SUNDAY, 6 MARCH

SPECIAL MUSIC EVENT

Love, Tom is the one-man personal performance film starring legendary, award-winning country singer-songwriter Tom Douglas.

Directed by Oscar-nominated and BAFTA-winning filmmaker Michael Lennox, and written by Tommy Douglas and Tom Douglas, the film is based on Douglas’ much-lauded 12-minute acceptance speech given at the 2014 Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame, offering a message of hope to a desperate world.
Spanning a 30-year career, Douglas shares personal anecdotes as the backstory for his most famous songs including Lady A’s I Run To You, Tim McGraw’s Grown Men Don’t Cry and Miranda Lambert’s The House That Built Me.

The Requin

TUESDAY, 8 MARCH

EXCLUSIVE FEATURE FILM

There’s terror in paradise when Jaelyn (Alicia Silverstone) and Kyle (James Tupper) arrive at a remote seaside villa in Vietnam for a romantic getaway.

A torrential storm descends, reducing the villa to little more than a raft and sweeping the young couple out to sea.

Suddenly, another danger appears: a school of great white sharks. With her injured husband watching helplessly, Jaelyn must battle the deadly predators alone in this tense thriller that rides an unrelenting wave of fear.

Real World Homecoming: NY

TUESDAY, 8 MARCH

ALL NEW SERIES / EVERY EPISODE

Almost 30 years later, the original “seven strangers” that paved the way for modern reality TV are moving back into the New York loft where it all began.

Viewers will be reunited with the cast from the very first season of The Real World in a brand-new multi-episode docu-series to find out, once again, what happens when they stop being polite… and start getting real.

Charmed

SUNDAY, 13 MARCH

EXCLUSIVE NEW SERIES / NEW EP EVERY SUNDAY

Season four sees the mysterious arrival of a new Charmed One, but is everything as it seems?

After the tragic death of their sister, Mel and Maggie struggle to get back on their feet until a fateful encounter with the new Charmed One reawakens the Power of Three… and their sisterhood.

But who is this mysterious young artist from Philadelphia, and why was she – of all people – chosen to take on the mantle of a Charmed One? Could she be their long-lost sister? Or is she something else entirely?

No Return

MONDAY, 14 MARCH

EXCLUSIVE NEW SERIES / EVERY EPISODE

Like many of us, Kathy and Martin are looking forward to a fun and relaxing family holiday with their two children, Noah and Jessica. They’re off to Turkey to enjoy the sun, sea and sand, and spend some much-needed family time together.

But their dream holiday soon plunges into a nightmare, as Noah accepts a seemingly innocent invitation to a beach party.

As things unfold, the family is left desperately fighting for their son’s freedom against the powers of the law, an alien legal system, looming media coverage and resistance from fellow holidaymakers unwilling to lend a helping hand.

Noah should be at home sitting his latest exams. Instead, he’s facing an entirely different kind of test.

27th Critics’ Choice Awards

TUESDAY, 15 MARCH

SPECIAL EVENT

Catch all glitz and glamour of the Critics’ Choice Awards from the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel.

CCA are bestowed annually to honour the finest in cinematic and television achievement. Historically, they are the most-accurate predictor of Academy Award nominations.

Real World Homecoming: LA

FRIDAY, 18 MARCH

ALL NEW SERIES / EVERY EPISODE

The roommates from The Real World: Los Angeles move back into their original Venice beach house, 28 years later, to relive one of the most memorable seasons in reality TV history.

But before they can truly reunite, they’ll have to settle unfinished business.

Halo

THURSDAY, 24 MARCH

EXCLUSIVE NEW SERIES / NEW EP EVERY THURSDAY

Master Chief is set to complete his longest, most difficult mission: leaping from Xbox hit video game to live-action TV show.

Set in the 26th century, Halo sees a brilliant scientist (played by Natascha McElhone) genetically engineer super-soldiers to fight an alien menace called the Covenant. One of these so-called Spartans, in instantly recognisable green armor and yellow visor, is Master Chief Spartan John-117 (played by Pablo Schreiber.)

Aussie Yerin Ha has been cast as Quan Ah, a shrewd, audacious 16-year-old from the Outer Colonies who meets Master Chief at a fateful time for both.

Worth noting that prior to airing it’s first season, HALO has already secured a second season!

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