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EXCLUSIVE: PCCW Media and Crazy Rich Asians shaper SK Global’s premium series, The Season, will person a world merchandise successful June 2026.
The six-part bid will beryllium disposable connected Viu crossed markets successful Asia, nan Middle East, and South Africa, connected Hulu and Disney+ successful nan U.S., and Now TV successful Hong Kong.
Fremantle is handling world income connected nan bid alongside De Maio Entertainment.
The English-language bid features an ensemble formed of world talent, including Jessie Mei Li (Shadow And Bone), Chris Pang (Crazy Rich Asians), Lee Jae-yoon (Physical 100 Season 2), Karena Lam, Justin Chien (The Brothers Sun), Yvonne Chapman (Avatar: The Last Airbender), Celina Jade (Wolf Warrior 2), and Toby Stephens (Percy Jackson And The Olympians).
Chilean head Marialy Rivas (The Jetty) served arsenic nan show’s lead head and executive producer. The show follows a close-knit group of friends gathering for a summertime of sun-drenched luxury arsenic Hong Kong’s boating play begins.
The charismatic synopsis reads: The Season, a champagne-fueled revenge drama, unfolds during Hong Kong’s precocious nine summer, wherever connections are everything, and thing is rather arsenic it seems. At nan halfway is nan Hext family, an old-money institution that rules nan city’s elite. done yacht parties, equine races, and kindness galas – while secrets and scandals simmer beneath nan surface.
Into this world steps Cola, a newcomer pinch a hidden agenda. As rivalries ignite and alliances move lethal, nan play builds to a climactic reckoning that threatens to shatter nan cloth of precocious society.
Agatha Lo executive produced for PCCW Media and Chloe Dan, Matt Aragachi, and Dylan Tarason for SK Global, pinch Aaron Shershow (Expats) arsenic producer.
The formed is rounded retired by exemplary and character Kōki, musician and character Anson Lo of nan set Mirror, and Marf Yau from nan set Collar.
The formed and imaginative squad down nan show reunited this day astatine Filmart successful Hong Kong. Teasing nan series, Janice Lee, CEO, PCCW Media Group & Viu, described The Season arsenic a “story of redemption pinch characters who will resonate pinch audiences globally.”
“We are thrilled to partner pinch SK Global and our level partners to stock it pinch viewers everywhere,” Lee said. “Returning to Filmart 1 twelvemonth aft our first announcement, and pinch nan bid now complete, we are excited to stock a first glimpse of nan activity realised by an astonishing imaginative squad and cast.”
