Multiple Billions Spinoffs, Including Millions and Trillions Offshoots, in the Works at Paramount+
The soon-to-be-rebranded Showtime will continue to show viewers the money, with a whopping four Billions spinoffs currently in the works.
Following a report from the Wall Street Journal on Monday, the pay cabler — which will soon merge with streaming service Paramount+ — has confirmed it is developing several offshoots of its long-running financial drama, two of which will take inspiration from the mothership’s title: Millions will follow “diverse, thirtysomething financial mogul wannabes doing whatever it takes to make it in Manhattan,” while Trillions will be based on “fictional stories of the richest people in the world — titans of industry living all over the country but coming into contact and conflict with one another,” the logline reads.
Rounding out the quartet of projects are Billions: Miami, set in the world of private aviation, and Billions: London, operating in the world of U.K. finance.
Billions co-creators and showrunners Brian Koppelman and David Levien are exec-producing all four of the potential series. In a statement on Monday, the duo said, “We remain fascinated by people whose ambition is boundless and who think the laws of civilization and nature don’t apply to them. Miami is a vital and vibrant place the super-rich have begun taking over. We’re excited to show everyone what’s really going on down there.”
Additionally, on the heels of TVLine’s exclusive report that Showtime is developing a Dexter prequel, the project has officially been ordered to series; get more details here.
The expansion of the Billions and Dexter universes comes as Paramount+ and Showtime are set to combine into one shared service later this year, under the name Paramount+ With Showtime. The linear Showtime channel will be rebranded, also as Paramount+ With Showtime, and Showtime content will be available to stream on Paramount+’s ad-free tier (with no add-on needed).
Billions has been part of Showtime’s lineup since January 2016, initially centering on Damian Lewis’ Bobby “Axe” Axelrod and Paul Giamatti’s Chuck Rhoades. Lewis later left the show during its Season 5 finale and was ostensibly replaced by Corey Stoll as billionaire business titan Mike Prince. Season 7 of Billions is currently in production and is set to premiere later this year.
If the article was not from the WSJ I would thought it was April Fools Day.
I honestly thought it was April Fools when I got the email
Yeah, this was going to be my comment as well… like… really?! Maybe it is an April Fools Day article that got published early?!
While I will probably watch these I hope they are as good as the original Billions used to be. It lost its magic when Damian Lewis left.
A Million Little Billions Spin-Offs
That was great!
The recession set Thousands
That would be a period piece and take play in the Yellowstone universe.
All fine and good, but where are the Penny Dreadful spinoffs?
The dilution of quality in the most recent season of Billions was considerable…the idea of trillions just sounds ludicrous and in billions we’ve already seen the ‘millions’ with supporting characters – does anyone want a show focused on any of them?
We’ve got no good ideas so let’s try an get built in audiences to follow mediocre ideas instead
Second this. I havent caught up with Billions in a while (think I am in Season 5A maybe). There will be a significant drop off in quality if you are doing FOUR spinoffs. Love the show but this will be messy
Is everything a spin-off at Showtime now? What happened to original ideas?
Dr. Evil: Why watch Trillions when we can watch…Billions?
If this weren’t already a dumb idea “one set of showrunners will produce all four [and apparently not sleep]” would be where it goes off the wagon.
well, we’ll see. today lots of paramount+ news. how many of these series are actually in development? how many are just ideas. what is the current release schedule, exactly? these will take how many years before being able to be consumed? i may be dead by then.
Can we get some actual clarity? Will Billions still be on cable/sat Showtime channel?
Will all these spinoffs be on cable/sat Showtime channel?
I need to know if those of us who pay for ST channels are about to get screwed by this ridiculous merger.
Welp, at least we didn’t get “The Young Bobby” focused on Axe’s formative years, so there’s that… actually I’ll give these shows a chance