Amazon Freevee has released the official trailer for the second season of Almost Paradise and announced it will premiere July 21. All 10 episodes from the season will be available on premiere day exclusively on Freevee in the U.S. and UK.
Christian Kane returns to star along with returning executive producers and co-showrunners, Dean Devlin and Gary Rosen.
Kane is Alex Walker, a former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) agent forced into early retirement. The combination of his partner’s betrayal and a life-threatening battle with hypertension has sent him as far from the madness as he can get – to a small tropical island in the Philippine archipelago.
He now runs the gift shop in the island’s luxury resort hotel, which attracts the rich, powerful, and sometimes criminal elite from around the world.
Despite his best efforts to transition from Jason Bourne to Jimmy Buffett, Alex is pulled back into a world of dangerous people and deadly situations – either through his friends in the local police, Kai Mendoza (Samantha Richelle) and Ernesto Alamares (Art Acuña), or encounters with people from his old life. And the problem is that he likes it.
Almost Paradise was shot entirely in the Philippines. Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan-Wilson of Electric Entertainment executive produce alongside co-showrunners Devlin and Rosen. Mark Franco co-produces.
The first season of Almost Paradise is available now on Amazon Freevee for viewers looking to catch up on Alex’s adventures.
Headquartered in Los Angeles, California, Electric Entertainment is an independent studio headed by veteran producer Dean Devlin along with his partners Marc Roskin and Rachel Olschan-Wilson.
Electric Entertainment also houses acquisitions and sales divisions, with domestic sales headed up by Steve Saltman and the international division headed by Sonia Mehandjiyska. Electric also has a satellite office located in Vancouver, Canada.
Among Electric’s hit television series are Leverage: Redemption, the spin-off continuation of Leverage, which ran for five seasons on TNT. Both series are currently streaming in the U.S. and the U.K. on Amazon Freevee. Leverage: Redemption premiered its second season in November 2022.
Almost Paradise is currently streaming on Amazon Freevee after having premiered on WGN America. Electric’s new series The Ark premiered February 1, 2023 on SYFY and has been green-lit for a second season.
Other Electric series include The Librarians, which ran for four seasons on TNT, and The Outpost, which premiered its fourth season on The CW in 2021, and is now streaming on Amazon Freevee.
Electric’s feature films have included Bad Samaritan, starring David Tennant and Robert Sheehan, the award-winning film Say My Name, starring Lisa Brenner and Nick Blood, the critically-acclaimed documentary Who Killed the Electric Car?, and most recently The Deal, starring Sumalee Montano and Emma Fischer.
Electric also acquires, distributes and sells worldwide rights to Electric’s produced and acquired content, as well as theatrical films from around the world. The company’s domestic distribution division, headed by Steve Saltman, is a full-service operation serving all significant outlets with various rights to films and series including: TVOD, EST, AVOD, SVOD, PTV, Linear Basic Cable and Broadcast.
Mirko Parlevliet has been reporting on the entertainment industry since 1998 and founded Vital Thrills in 2018 to cover the latest news on streaming, movies, TV, and video games.