Overview
- Paramount+ has officially greenlit Ascent, a corporate-crisis thriller that will star Viola Davis as Catriona Vail and was created and is being showrun by John Logan.
- The series is produced by JuVee Productions and Paramount Television Studios with Michael Aguilar and Julius Tennon listed as executive producers.
- Paramount Television Studios says production is slated to start in Los Angeles in 2027 and the show is planned to shoot on the Paramount lot.
- Ascent centers on an elite corporate fixer whose estranged daughter is in danger, and the role will be Davis’s second major television series lead while Logan returns to TV after Penny Dreadful.
- Industry reports say the series is rumored to be part of a new round of California TV tax incentives but that linkage has not been confirmed and could affect whether the production stays in-state.