
The Gold moves from Paramount+ to Stan
S1 and upcoming S2 of British crime drama switch streaming platforms.
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UK crime drama The Gold, which screened S1 on Paramount+ (and episode 1 on Network 10) has moved to Stan, which will have both S1 and the upcoming S2.
The Gold, inspired by the true story of the 1983 Brink’s-Mat robbery, delves into the decades-long aftermath of the historic crime.
The cast features Hugh Bonneville, Jack Lowden, Dominic Cooper, Tom Cullen, Charlotte Spencer and Emun Elliott. It also features Tom Cullen (Becoming Elizabeth), Stefanie Martini (The Last Kingdom) and Amanda Drew (Ellis).
The Gold is written by Neil Forsyth (Guilt; Eric, Ernie & Me) and is produced by Tannadice Pictures, the joint venture between Neil Forsyth and Objective Fiction, part of Objective Media Group, an All3Media Company.
Season one
On the 26th November 1983, six armed men broke into the Brink’s-Mat security depot near London’s Heathrow Airport, and inadvertently stumbled across gold bullion worth £26m. What started as ‘a typical Old Kent Road armed robbery’ according to detectives at the time, became a seminal event in British criminal history, remarkable not only for the scale of the theft, at the time the biggest in world history, but for its wider legacy. The disposal of the bullion led to a vast international money laundering operation, provided the dirty money that helped fuel the London Docklands property boom, united blue and white collar criminals and left controversy and murder in its wake.  Inspired by extensive research and interviews with some of those involved in the events, The Gold is a pulsating dramatisation which takes a journey into a 1980s world awash with cheap money and loosened morals to tell this extraordinary and epic story for the first time in its entirety.
Season two
Following the conviction of some of those involved in the theft and handling of the Brink’s-Mat gold, the police realised that those criminals only ever had half of it. Series two explores what happened to the other half, and the criminal fortune it created. As the police investigation continues, it becomes a tense, high-stakes journey into international money laundering and organised crime, while the police embark on dramatic manhunts as they desperately try to solve the longest and most expensive investigation in the history of the Metropolitan Police.
Thursday January 23 on Stan.
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3 Responses
Interesting, maybe Stan will get the Lioness franchise at some point as well. Stan do seem to be working at improving content, maybe the uncertain future of Foxtel helps.
A surprise to be sure but a welcome one. I had no idea there was going to be more. I enjoyed the show.
Really enjoyed watching Season 1 and can’t wait to watch Season 2.