SkyShowtime announces new content for 2024
November 30, 2023
SkyShowtime has announced its newest original series and exclusive programming that will be coming to the service in 2024.
The announcement was made by SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan and Chief Content Officer Kai Finke during a panel discussion at the Content London event, where they shared details about the upcoming programming.
SkyShowtime will premiere the SkyShowtime Original series Veronika, a Swedish crime thriller series with a paranormal flavour starring Nordic superstars Alexandra Rapaport and Tobias Santelmann. The eight-part series is created and scripted by Katja Juras and Anna Lindblom and helmed by acclaimed director Jonas Alexander Arnby. The series was acquired from Viaplay Content Distribution and will be available to stream exclusively across all SkyShowtime markets. The premiere date will be announced next year.
SkyShowtime also shared that The Tattooist of Auschwitz, will be branded a SkyShowtime Original and will be coming exclusively to the service in 2024 across most of its markets. The Sky production is a limited event series and is based on the globally bestselling novel by Heather Morris, and stars Jonah Hauer-King and Anna Próchniak in the lead roles of Lali and Gita, as well as Harvey Keitel.
Additionally, SkyShowtime has acquired the exclusive first pay window for award-winning Polish feature film Kos (Scarborn), which will be branded as a SkyShowtime Exclusive. The historical action-drama will be available to subscribers in Poland and becomes the first SkyShowtime Exclusive film available to stream in market. Directed by Paweł Maślona, the films is set in the spring of 1794 when General Tadeusz ‘Kos’ Kosciuszko returns to Poland to start an uprising against the Russians by mobilising the Polish nobility and peasants.
Alongside these titles, SkyShowtime will offer members even more new and exclusive series in 2024 including SkyShowtime Original Series The Curse and The Envoys (Los Enviados) (S2), as well as exclusive series Apples Never Fall, Halo (S2), Knuckles, The Lovers, Mary & George, Ted and The Woman in the Wall.
SkyShowtime will also feature a line-up of first-run theatrical movies and box office hits including: Asteroid City from Wes Anderson, Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One, and Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie. Exact premiere dates for all of these shows will be announced at a later date.
SkyShowtime CEO Monty Sarhan said: “Building on our robust 2023 slate, SkyShowtime is proud to be announcing some of the great content already planned for 2024. In addition to offering the best from Hollywood—including the critically-acclaimed SkyShowtime Original series The Curse and big box office hits such as Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One —we also offer local programming that resonates with audiences in our markets. Our new original series Veronika, as well as the critically acclaimed Polish film Kos, demonstrate our commitment to providing great entertainment and value to our members.”