Popular cable network Showtime has started working to expand its longest-running show, Billions, into a fully-fledged franchise with a move that is reminiscent of what Paramount+ did with Yellowstone, according to Chris McCarthy, the new Showtime boss.
McCarthy, who made the revelation during a recent interview with The Wall Street Journal, also stated that the cable network has as many as four spin-offs in the pipeline titled Millions, Trillions, Billions: Miami, and Billions: London.
While Millions will follow young and emerging finance experts who are looking to make it big in the finance world, Trillions will explore the highly exclusive world of the richest people on earth. On the other hand, Billions: Miami will focus on players in the world's crypto capital, Miami, while Billions: London will chronicle the lives of the movers and shakers of the U. K. financial industry.
Billions follows the unending rivalry between United States Attorney Charles Chuck Rhoades, Jr. and popular philanthropist and billionaire hedge fund manager Bobby Axe Axelrod. It explores their efforts to destroy each other's professional careers using all the tools at their disposal.