Paramount+ announced today its acquisition of US and select regional rights for three new original British TV series produced by A24.
You may or may not be familiar with the entertainment company A24, but you’ve probably seen at least one of their television or film titles, such as the Emmy® Award-winning Beef or the Oscar®-winning Everything Everywhere All at Once.
And maybe you do or don’t have a subscription to Paramount+, but if you have British crime drama MobLand, drama series Little Disasters, or the original Ghosts (aka Ghosts UK) comedy series on your to-watch list, Paramount+ is where you can stream them.
Soon, the streaming service will bring three more titles from the UK to the US, including:
It Gets Worse
Created and executive produced by star Leo Reich (Too Much, Break Clause: Channel 4 Comedy Blap), this comedy series is about three young people who are starting to look around themselves and think, “wait. Wait. WAIT. Surely it gets better than this? It has to get better than this, right?” “This” being their humiliating jobs, their non-existent love lives, and their rapidly dwindling will to live. The answer: No. No, it doesn’t.
The cast also includes Emily Fairn (House of Guinness, The Responder), Olive Gray (Save Me, Halo), Sean Delaney (Killing Eve, Life After Life), Dane Williams (What It Feels Like for A Girl, House of David), India Mullen (Normal People, Brassic), and Edinburgh Comedy Award 2025 nominee, writer, actor, and comedian John Tothill.
Guest stars include Andrew Scott (All of Us Strangers, Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery), Lena Dunham (Girls, Generation), and writer, producer, and host Amelia Dimoldenberg (Meet the Markles, Taskmaster), amongst others.
It Gets Worse, a Showtime® Original Series, will premiere on Paramount+ in early November (date tba).
Major Players
Co-written by Molly Manning Walker (How To Have Sex) and Yasmin Joseph (A Thousand Blows), this original drama is about two girls on the brink of adulthood and their mission to start a women’s football (soccer) team. Inspired by Molly’s own experiences at high school, where crowd control was more urgent than education, the series is a love letter to football and a funny, wild exploration of young people in London today.
The Ministry of Time
Adapted by Alice Birch (Succession, Normal People) from Kaliane Bradley’s international and New York Times best-selling novel, this fantasy drama follows Sophy, who achieves a hard-fought promotion in the civil service, only to learn that her role is to help a time traveler acclimatize to the modern world as part of a top secret Ministry program. Commander Graham Gore is a Victorian polar explorer and one of several expats from history who are now part of the Ministry’s extraordinary experiment. The professional friendship between Sophy and Graham develops into an intense forbidden romance, just as the sinister nature of the Ministry’s true intentions increasingly puts them in danger.
The series stars Aoife Hinds (Normal People, Dune: Prophecy) as Sophy and Billy Howle (The Perfect Couple, Under the Banner of Heaven) as Commander Graham Gore. Academy Award® nominee Hong Chau (The Whale, Wuthering Heights) is Adela, the Vice-Secretary of Expatriation; BAFTA TV Award winner Adeel Akhtar (Down Cemetery Road, Sherwood) is Quentin Ackerly, Sophy’s handler at The Ministry; and Royal Television Society, UK award winner Tamara Lawrance (Get Millie Black, Mr Loverman) is Simellia, a “bridge” alongside Sophy.
Starring as Commander Graham Gore’s fellow expats are Emily Fairn (The Responder, House of Guinness) as Margaret Kemble, Josh Finan (Say Nothing, Waiting For The Out) as Captain Arthur Reginald-Smyth, and Aisling Loftus (Sherwood, War & Peace) as Anne Spencer. Tawfeek Barhom (Cairo Conspiracy, The Way of the Wind) and Nahuel Pérez Biscayart (120 Beats Per Minute, Persian Lessons) star as the elusive Brigadier and Salese. And Sophy’s parents, Peter and Channary, will be played by Ciarán Hinds (Belfast, Munich) and Hélène Patarot (Paris, Je T’aime, Whitetail).
Aneil Karia (The Long Goodbye, Top Boy) serves as lead director, in addition to serving as an executive producer.
Stay tuned for updates.
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The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley
