Paramount+ Australia Releases Key Art And Official Trailer For NCIS: Sydney Season Two.

New Season Of The Paramount+ Original Series Streaming Exclusively From Friday, 7 February.

Paramount+ Australia today released the key art and official trailer for Season Two of the highly anticipated original series NCIS: Sydney. The ten-episode season will premiere exclusively on Paramount+ on Friday, 7 February in Australia, with new episodes dropping weekly on Fridays.

Internationally, NCIS: Sydney Season Two will premiere in the U.S. on Friday, 7 February on The CBS Television Network, with additional Paramount+ international markets to follow later. 

Having only just found their feet, the second season sees NCIS: Sydney square off against a much more powerful adversary. The investigation into Rankin reveals a looming destructive chaos that threatens the stability of the region. The cases are bigger, locations more exotic, the stakes much higher. With everything on the line, will NCIS: Sydney triumph against all odds – or be torn apart at their very core?  

The NCIS: Sydney Season Two team is led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey played by Olivia Swann (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The River Wild) and her 2IC Australian Federal Police (AFP) counterpart, Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey played by Todd Lasance (Without Remorse, Spartacus: War of the Damned). They are joined by Sean Sagar (The Covenant, Mea Culpa) as NCIS Special Agent, DeShawn Jackson; Tuuli Narkle (Mystery Road: Origin, Bad Behaviour) as AFP Liaison Officer, Constable Evie Cooper; Mavournee Hazel (Shantaram, Halifax: Retribution) as AFP Forensic Scientist, Bluebird ‘Blue’ Gleeson and William McInnes (The Newsreader, Total Control) as AFP Forensic Pathologist, Dr Roy Penrose. 

Please click here for your first look at NCIS: Sydney Season Two.

Produced by Endemol Shine Australia for CBS Studios and Paramount Australia, and distributed outside Australia by Paramount Global Content Distribution, the first season of NCIS: Sydney is one of the most watched local series since the launch of Paramount+ Australia and earned a 2024 TV Week Logie nomination. It premiered on CBS US as the #1 new drama in the fall of the 2023-2024 season, with the series premiere reaching over 10 million viewers on linear in the U.S, including an encore episode.

NCIS is the world’s most successful television franchise globally. NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: Hawai’i, NCIS: Sydney and NCIS: New Orleans, have been licensed in over 200 markets worldwide with two more franchise expansions, the recently launched prequel series, NCIS: Origins, and the upcoming Paramount+ Original series, NCIS: Tony & Ziva.

NCIS won the International Audience Award as the most watched television series by Médiamétrie and Eurodata in 2014, 2015 and 2017.

NCIS: Sydney Season Two will join a host of the world’s best entertainment currently streaming on Paramount+, including Aussie Shore, Last King of The Cross Season Two, The Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers Season Two, Fake, Dexter: Original Sin, The Agency, Landman, Lioness Season Two and Frasier Season Two, with Star Trek: Section 31, Watson and Yellowjackets Season Three streaming soon.

You can stream 20,000 hours of unique stories, iconic stars, live sport and a mountain of entertainment on Paramount+ with plans starting from $6.99 per month for a monthly subscription or from $61.99 for an annual subscription.

Join the conversation:

www.ParamountPlus.com.au 
@ParamountPlusAU 
@NCISverse 
@cbstv 
#NCISSydney   

About Paramount+ 

Paramount+ is a global digital subscription video streaming service from Paramount that features a mountain of premium entertainment for audiences of all ages. Internationally, the streaming service features an expansive library of original series, hit shows and popular movies across every genre from world-renowned brands and production studios, including SHOWTIME®, BET, CBS, Comedy Central, MTV, Nickelodeon, Paramount Pictures and the Smithsonian Channel™, in addition to a robust offering of premier local content. The service is currently live in various markets worldwide including Australia, Austria, Canada, the Caribbean, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Japan, Latin America, Switzerland, the U.K. and the U.S. 

About Endemol Shine Australia 

Endemol Shine Australia (ESA), a Banijay Entertainment company, is a leader in world-class television creation and distribution, producing some of Australia’s most popular programs. With a unique creative approach in supercharging and supersizing formats into global hits, credits include; MasterChef Australia, Married at First Sight, Australian Survivor, The Summit, LEGO Masters, Gogglebox Australia, Dessert Masters, Old People’s Home for 4 Year Olds, Hunted and Love Triangle. Game shows; Tipping Point and Deal or No Deal, as well as acclaimed dramas including the 2024 TV Week Logie Award winning RFDS, NCIS: Sydney, Bali 2002, Offspring, Sisters, Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door and INXS: Never Tear Us Apart. A multi-award-winning production powerhouse, ESA has secured awards from the International Emmys, TV Week Logie Awards, AACTA Awards, New York Festivals TV & Film Awards, Content Innovation Awards, Realscreen Awards, Venice TV Awards, Asian Television Awards, and SPA Awards.

About CBS Studios: 

CBS Studios is one of the world’s leading producers of entertainment programming, with dozens of globally popular series for broadcast and streaming.  The Studio’s expansive portfolio includes a diverse slate of commercially successful and critically acclaimed programming which includes genre-defining franchises such as NCIS and the Star Trek universe, fan-favourite comedies such as Frasier and Ghosts, the newly reimagined Matlock, and buzzy international co-productions such as Colin From Accounts and upcoming King & Conqueror.

For more information please contact:
Nina Postema
National Publicist
E: npostema@networkten.com.au

ENDEMOL SHINE AUSTRALIA & SCREEN AUSTRALIA ANNOUNCE THE RECIPIENTS OF THE EARLY CAREER WRITERS PROGRAM

The recipients of the Early Career Writers Program are (picture L-R) Slade Camilleri, Sally Alrich-Smythe, Becki Bouchier and Luke Agius.  

A collaboration between Endemol Shine Australia and Screen Australia, and supported by the Australian Writers’ Guild, the initiative provides high-level training in a global calibre script department for early to mid-career Australian writers who have the potential for a strong career trajectory in scripted episodic storytelling.

Based in the Endemol Shine Australia headquarters in Sydney, over eight weeks the four emerging writers will be immersed in all facets of script development as well as rotating through all the roles that make up a successful script department.

Endemol Shine Australia Head of Scripted Sara Richardson said: “The applications received were outstanding, and these four writers exemplary.  It is a privilege to be able to run this program again with the support of Screen Australia. Endemol Shine Australia is excited to guide and mentor them, as well as encourage their learning and professional development. 

“They are this industry’s future,” she continued.

Screen Australia Head of Development Bobby Romia said: “We are thrilled to see Luke, Sally, Becki and Slade embark on this exciting next step in their careers. The Early Career Writers Program offers them the perfect platform to refine their craft and open doors to new opportunities. These four recipients bring with them a strong appetite to learn and a passion to create a new slate of stories for the next generation, and I can’t wait to see what they achieve.”

The Early Career Writers Program is presented by Screen Australia in collaboration with Endemol Shine Australia with industry partner Australian Writers’ Guild.

ABOUT THE RECIPIENTS:

LUKE AGIUS

With a talent for creating captivating and inspiring stories, Luke's unique perspective was shaped by his upbringing in Western Sydney with a Maltese father and First Nations mother. He began his filmmaking career at age 12 and made a plethora of films, eventually culminating his skills towards eventually studying Media Arts Production at the University of Technology Sydney. He has since made several award-winning short films, music videos, corporate content for large brands such as Google, and, prior to turning 23, directed his first feature film The Ferryman, which is now available on Amazon Prime. Luke was also a writer and director behind the Screen Australia short-form webseries Go Figure, which has accumulated in over 100k views across socials. With a passion for telling meaningful stories that resonate with audiences, Luke’s second feature The Undesirables is currently in post-production.

SALLY ALRICH-SMYTHE

After studying Creative Writing at the University of Technology Sydney, Sally trained at the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 2016 for Musical Theatre, and later returned there to do her Master of Fine Arts: Writing for Performance in 2018. Sally is currently a regular script writer on Home and Away, where she previously worked as a Senior Storyliner. In 2023, Sally’s play Wavelength won the Australian Theatre Festival NYC New Play Award, and was read to a sold out audience at Theatre Row in October of the same year. Her TV pilot script Dirty Road was both a finalist and highly commended for the Australian Writer’s Guild’s Monte Miller Award 2021 and is currently under development as an eight-part television series with CJZ Productions. In 2021, Sally was a Fresh Ink Writer Resident at The Australian Theatre for Young People, where she also worked as an educator and divisor for the theatre maker workshops. Her produced playwriting credits include The Stargazers Project (Periscope Productions/Melbourne Council of the Arts, 2020), and Homesick (The Old 505, 2019). Most recently, Sally completed a six-week professional script development placement with ScriptedInk and Studio Canal/StudioPlus as a Development and Acquisitions Intern.

BECKI BOUCHIER

Becki is a Singaporean-Australian screenwriter and director whose work explores the challenges faced by women, with a focus on mental health and gender roles. Becki was nominated for an Australian Writers' Guild AWGIE Award and an Australian Directors’ Guild Award for her short film Snapshot, which had its world premiere at Austin Film Festival. In 2022, she was a recipient of the SBS Emerging Writers' Incubator and spent 12 months working as staff writer at production company Sweetshop and Green. Becki’s dark comedy/drama pilot script Jelly was longlisted for the AWG’s Emerging Writers’ Award. Her two other television pilot screenplays Blackout and Bad Timing have been invited to the AWG's prestigious Pathways showcase, and her romantic-comedy feature screenplay Modern Day Romance was longlisted for both the Monte Miller and John Hinde Awards. In 2019, Becki made her first foray into theatre, writing and directing the play Chasing Yesterday which performed to a sold-out season at the Melbourne Fringe. Becki has been selected for the AWG’s First Break program and has a Master of Film and Television (Narrative) from the Victorian College of the Arts.

SLADE CAMILLIERI

Slade Camilleri is a screenwriter and script editor from Melbourne, Australia. Having obtained his Bachelor of Fine Arts (Screenwriting) in 2017 from the Victorian College of the Arts, Slade has gone on to work as a production assistant on a number of films, such as Darklands and The Speedway Murders. In early 2023, Slade was brought on to the relaunch of Neighbours, where he spent a year as the senior script coordinator, before stepping into his current role of trainee script editor/storyliner, and writer of six episodes. 

About Endemol Shine Australia

Endemol Shine Australia (ESA), a Banijay Entertainment company, comprises proven leaders in television and digital production whose shows have become ratings hits. ESA’s slate represents the most exciting and popular programming on Australian free-to-air networks and pay TV channels. The company’s scripted credits include the 2024 TV Week Logie Award winning RFDS, NCIS: Sydney, Bali 2002, Offspring, Sisters, Peter Allen: Not The Boy Next Door and INXS: Never Tear Us Apart.

2025 AACTA Award Nominations

ESA has racked up a grand total of FIVE nominations for the 2025 AACTA Awards!!!

In richly deserving news, 2 of our absolute juggernauts, MasterChef and Australian Survivor: Titans V Rebels have been nominated for Best Reality Program.

Our gameshow ratings hit Tipping Point and beloved Lego Masters Australia vs The World are up to bat for Best Entertainment Program 🥂

The mighty Gogglebox is up for Best Factual Entertainment Program again this year, Bravo!

See the full list of nominees in the link below: 

https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/winners-and-nominees/

The awards will be held over two ceremonies at the Home of the ARTS (HOTA) on the Gold Coast in February 2025. Exciting times are ahead, please raise your coffee this morning to all our incredible nominees!

Paramount+ Australia Reveals Premiere Date For NCIS: Sydney Season Two. Streaming Exclusively On Paramount+ From Friday, 31 January.

Paramount+ Australia today released the first look image for Season Two of the highly anticipated original series NCIS: Sydney, which will stream exclusively on Paramount+ from Friday, 31 January in Australia. Following the premiere, new episodes of the ten-episode season will drop weekly on Fridays.  

Internationally, NCIS: Sydney Season Two will premiere in the U.S. on Friday, 31 January on The CBS Television Network, with additional Paramount+ international markets to follow later.  

Having only just found their feet, the second season sees NCIS: Sydney square off against a much more powerful adversary. The investigation into Rankin reveals a looming destructive chaos that threatens the stability of the region. The cases are bigger, locations more exotic, the stakes much higher. With everything on the line, will NCIS: Sydney triumph against all odds – or be torn apart at their very core?   

The NCIS: Sydney Season Two team is led by NCIS Special Agent Michelle Mackey played by Olivia Swann (DC’s Legends of Tomorrow, The River Wild) and her 2IC Australian Federal Police (AFP) counterpart, Sergeant Jim “JD” Dempsey played by Todd Lasance (Without Remorse, Spartacus: War of the Damned). They are joined by Sean Sagar (The Covenant, Mea Culpa) as NCIS Special Agent, DeShawn Jackson; Tuuli Narkle (Mystery Road: Origin, Bad Behaviour) as AFP Liaison Officer, Constable Evie Cooper; Mavournee Hazel (Shantaram, Halifax: Retribution) as AFP Forensic Scientist, Bluebird ‘Blue’ Gleeson and William McInnes (The Newsreader, Total Control) as AFP Forensic Pathologist, Dr Roy Penrose.  

Produced by Endemol Shine Australia for CBS Studios and Paramount Australia, and distributed outside Australia by Paramount Global Content Distribution, the first season of NCIS: Sydney is one of the most watched local series since the launch of Paramount+ Australia and earned a 2024 TV Week Logie nomination. It premiered on CBS US as the #1 new series in the fall of the 2023-2024 season, with the series premiere reaching over 10.2 million viewers on linear in the U.S. 

NCIS  is one of the world’s most successful TV dramas, ranking as the #1 U.S. TV drama franchise globally. In the U.S. alone, NCIS has amassed over 4.37 trillion minutes viewed across the entire franchise during its 20 years on TV. NCIS, NCIS: Los Angeles, NCIS: Hawai’i, NCIS: Sydney and NCIS: New Orleans, have been licensed in over 200 markets worldwide with two more franchise expansions, the recently launched prequel series, NCIS: Origins, and the upcoming Paramount+ Original series, NCIS: Tony & Ziva. 

NCIS  won the International Audience Award as the most watched television series by Médiamétrie and Eurodata in 2014, 2015 and 2017.  

NCIS: Sydney Season Two will join a host of the world’s best entertainment currently streaming on Paramount+, including Aussie Shore, The Last King of The Cross Season Two, The Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers Season Two, Fake, Top Gear Australia, Frasier Season Two and Lioness Season Two, with Landman, The Agency and Dexter: Original Sin streaming soon.  

You can stream 20,000 hours of unique stories, iconic stars, live sport and a mountain of entertainment on Paramount+ with plans starting from $6.99 per month for a monthly subscription or from $61.99 for an annual subscription. 

Join the conversation:
www.ParamountPlus.com.au
@ParamountPlusAU
@NCISverse 
@cbstv 
#NCISSydney   

For more information please contact:
Rachel Martin
National Publicist

E: rmartin@networkten.com.au  

Anthony McCarthy 

Head of Publicity  

E: anmccart@networkten.com.au

Paula Butler (Lucarelli) 

Head of Publicity

E: plucarel@networkten.com.au 

CHRISHELL STAUSE JOINS MUST-WATCH STAN ORIGINAL DATING SERIES LOVE TRIANGLE AS HOST OF THE FIRST EVER REUNION SPECIAL. THE BRAND NEW SEASON WILL RETURN IN 2025.

Stan, Australia’s unrivalled home of original productions, today announced that Emmy-Nominated Actress, Host, Reality Star and Best-Selling Author, Chrishell Stause will host the first ever reunion special for the Stan Original Dating Series Love Triangle when it returns in 2025.

From Endemol Shine Australia Director of Content Tara McWilliams (Married At First Sight), Stan's Head of Originals Amanda Duthie, and 9Network Executive Producer Andy Ryan, Love Triangle challenges a group of singles to relinquish their grasp on what they think their perfect partner should look like, and instead choose someone, sight unseen, based on a deeper connection.

Chrishell, best known for her starring role in global hit reality real estate series Selling Sunset, will sit down with this season’s triangles in a reunion special, to unpack and reflect on the most memorable moments across the 8-part series - offering a gloves-off moment for the first time in Love Triangle history!

Chrishell said: “It is an honour to host the first ever reunion special for Love Triangle. I know first-hand the drama that goes on both on and off camera in an unscripted series.  There is so much that happens behind the scenes that audiences don’t get to witness so I’m here to draw out those stories and encourage the cast to speak their truth and share their feelings. I’m also not afraid to hold people accountable to their actions - so get ready, it’s going to be one epic reunion!” 

Since the global premiere of the series on Stan in 2022, Love Triangle has gone on to capture international attention and the first two seasons have been sold into 13 territories. The format has also been adapted for audiences in Finland and the UK – where Love Triangle UK launched earlier this year on E4 - and is also available to stream on Stan.

The Stan Original Dating Series Love Triangle is produced by Endemol Shine Australia (a Banijay Entertainment company) in conjunction with the 9Network.

The brand new season of the Stan Original Series Love Triangle will premiere in 2025. Every episode of seasons 1 and 2 are now streaming, only on Stan.