Starz, a Lionsgate company, announced the continued expansion of the STARZPLAY premium streaming service with its entry into Spain on Orange TV beginning March 28. The STARZPLAY premium streaming service will give Orange customers that are also subscribers of Orange TV the opportunity to watch STARZ series all in one place, with future STARZ Originals airing exclusively on STARZPLAY day-and-date with the US, including the debut season of Now Apocalypse from iconic indie-filmmaker Gregg Araki.
The latest Subscription Video on Demand service available to Orange TV subscribers, STARZPLAY will be the exclusive home in Spain to STARZ most-watched original series Power, while also offering access to a vast library of original content including such critically-acclaimed programming as The Girlfriend Experience, The White Princess, Vida, and The First and an extensive movie library at the touch of a button, for only €4.99 a month.
To celebrate this launch, STARZPLAY and Orange are offering a special 30-day free trial for new subscriptions to the service between March 28 and April 30. Subscribers must start their subscription within that window to be eligible. Orange TV customers who add the STARZPLAY subscription to their entry package can view the content on demand across supported devices (Set-top-box, Smart TV, Smartphone and tablets iOS/Android, PC/Mac and Chromecast).
At launch, Orange Spain customers with the STARZPLAY add on subscription will be able to watch the award-winning, fan-favorite STARZ Original series Power for the first time. The first season of the gritty crime drama will be available March 28 followed by the second season of the hit series on March 31. Subscribers will also have the opportunity to enjoy brand new STARZ originals, such as the premiere season of the surreal, millennial comedy Now Apocalypse from indie filmmaker Gregg Araki and starring Avan Jogia, Kelli Berglund, Beau Mirchoff and Roxanne Mesquida. These will be followed by the full upcoming second season of the groundbreaking original series Vida, that will debut day-and-date with the U.S. on Thursday, May 23 New movies and series will be also added to the service throughout the month of April.
STARZPLAY is currently available on Virgin Media in the UK and Amazon Prime Video Channels in the UK and Germany, with upcoming launches in France, Italy and beyond.
Power is a visionary drama that straddles the glamorous Manhattan lifestyles of the rich and infamous and the underworld of the international drug trade. The cast is led by Omari Hardwick as James “Ghost” St. Patrick, a man trying to escape his role as a drug kingpin for a legitimized life in the elite of NYC; Joseph Sikora as his brother in arms in the drug business, Tommy Egan; Naturi Naughton plays Ghost’s fierce wife Tasha St. Patrick; and Lela Loren is his first love, Assistant U.S. Attorney Angela Valdes. Courtney A. Kemp serves as the creator, showrunner and executive producer of Power. Curtis “50 Cent” Jackson, Mark Canton, Randall Emmett and Gary Lennon serve as executive producers. “Power” averages over 10 million multiplatform viewers per episode and is the most-watched franchise for Starz.
The surreal, coming-of-age comedy series Now Apocalypse follows Ulysses (Avan Jogia, Tut, Twisted) and his friends Carly (Kelli Berglund, Lab Rats, Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors), Ford (Beau Mirchoff, Awkward, The Fosters) and Severine (Roxane Mesquida, Kaboom, Gossip Girl), who are on various quests pursuing love, sex and fame while navigating the strange and oftentimes bewildering city of Los Angeles. Between sexual and romantic dating-app adventures, Ulysses grows increasingly troubled as foreboding
premonitory dreams make him wonder if some kind of dark and monstrous conspiracy is going on, or if he is just smoking too much weed. Now Apocalypse is created and executive produced by Gregg Araki (Kaboom, Mysterious Skin). Steven Soderbergh (The Girlfriend Experience, Logan Lucky) and Gregory Jacobs (Magic Mike XXL, Red Oaks) also serve as executive producers.
