Original content has become a growing way for streaming services to stand out. Even free services such as Sony’s Crackle has started to invest heavily into original content in the hopes that it will attract more subscribers or, in the case of Crackle, more users.
The new shows include dramas Strange Angel and $1 and the CBS All Access first comedy series, No Activity from Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Funny Or Die.
“The addition of Strange Angel, our first series based on original IP, No Activity, our first comedy series, and $1, an innovative thriller, builds on the tremendous momentum CBS All Access has generated in its first season of original programming with The Good Fight and the upcoming Star Trek: Discovery,” said Marc DeBevoise, president and chief operating officer of CBS Interactive.
STRANGE ANGEL, a drama series created by Mark Heyman (Black Swan, The Wrestler) and based on George Pendle’s book of the same name, explores the dramatic intersection between genius and madness, science and science fiction. The story follows the life of Jack Parsons, a mysterious and brilliant man in 1940s Los Angeles, who by day helps birth the entirely unknown discipline of American rocketry, and by night is a performer of sex magic rituals and a disciple to occultist Aleister Crowley.
NO ACTIVITY is a comedy series from Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, and Funny Or Die. In what should be a high stakes sting operation, No Activity celebrates the mundane. Set against the world of a major drug cartel bust, the series follows two low-level cops who have spent far too much time in a car together; two criminals who are largely kept in the dark; two dispatch workers who haven’t really clicked; and two Mexican tunnelers who are in way too small a space considering they’ve only just met.
$1 is a mystery/thriller set in a small rustbelt town in post-recession America where a one-dollar bill changing hands connects a group of characters involved in a shocking multiple murder. The path of the dollar bill and point of view in each episode paints a picture of a modern American town with deep class and cultural divides that spill out into the open as the town’s secrets get revealed.
Source: Deadline
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