Stan, Nine's local streaming platform, has closed a new multi-year strategic content partnership with Sony Pictures Television.
This secures a slate of first-run premium dramas and extends exclusive streaming rights for Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, plus The Nanny, Dawson’s Creek and For Life
This latest deal follows blockbuster agreements with Lionsgate, MGM, NBCU and Paramount.
Stan CEO Martin Kugeler said: “Stan’s major new strategic content agreement with Sony Pictures Television will bring a large suite of world-class, premium drama to our subscribers exclusively.
"This deal is the latest addition to our existing partnerships with major Hollywood studios and will give Stan an even stronger long-term lineup of exclusive first run premium content."
Mike Wald, Sony Pictures’ EVP for iInternational distribution & networks, said: “With their wide array of premium international and local content, Stan has been a great partner for us to reach Australian audiences."
Stan’s new agreement will see the exclusive premiere of a number of first-run premium dramas, including Twisted Metal, a half-hour action-comedy series about a motor-mouthed outsider offered a chance at a better life, but only if he can successfully deliver a mysterious package across a post-apocalyptic wasteland.
Twisted Metal, based on the PlayStation video game franchise and written by Michael Jonathan Smith (Cobra Kai), stars Anthony Mackie (The Falcon and the Winter Soldier), Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine), Thomas Haden Church (SpiderMan: No Way Home) and Neve Campbell (The Lincoln Lawyer).
Among premium dramas coming soon to Stan is Straight Man, a mid-life crisis tale starring Bob Odenkirk (Better Call Saul) as William Henry Devereaux Jr, the unlikely chairman of a Pennsylvania college English department,
Panhandle, starring Luke Kirby (The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) and Tiana Okoye (The Good Place), set in the Florida panhandle, follows arm-chair detective Bell Prescott (Kirby) and reluctant traffic cop Cammie Lorde (Okoye) as they wrestle with personal demons, shocking twists, and a few Florida gators on their journey to heal themselves and their town.
Passport to Freedom tells the story of Aracy de Carvalho (Sophie Charlotte), an employee in the Brazilian consulate in Hamburg, Germany, in the lead up to World War II, who managed to save many Jews by issuing passports to allow them to travel to Brazil.
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