Overview
- Paramount+ confirmed on Thursday that Sam Heughan will star opposite Viola Davis in Ascent, the streamer’s new character-driven thriller about global corporate crisis and damage control.
- Heughan will play Conal, described in series materials as a top Ascent Ventures agent who is a “lethally charming” chameleon who uses social cunning and ruthlessness to complete missions.
- Viola Davis will star as Catriona, an elite corporate fixer whose estranged daughter is endangered, and she will executive-produce the series through JuVee Productions.
- John Logan created the series and will serve as showrunner and executive producer alongside Michael Aguilar with Davis and Julius Tennon producing, signaling a prestige creative team behind the project.
- Production is slated to begin in Los Angeles in 2027 with a Paramount+ premiere date to be announced, and the casting marks a high-profile next step for Heughan after the May conclusion of Outlander and fits streaming demand for star-led dramas.