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New on Paramount+ UK in March 2023: The best movies and TV from Yellowjackets to The Godfather

A creepy kidnap thriller and the return of Yellowjackets headline Paramount+ UK this month

Jordan King
Updated ·5-min read
The Godfather trilogy, Yellowjackets S2, and Rabbit Hole are all new on Paramount+ in March 2023 (Paramount)
The Godfather trilogy, Yellowjackets S2, and Rabbit Hole are all new on Paramount+ in March 2023 (Paramount)

Returning survival mystery series Yellowjackets takes centre stage on Paramount+ this February. Excitingly, Frodo Baggins himself Mr Elijah Wood is joining the cast for season two as the timeline hopping story of an all-girl high school football team who become the (un)lucky survivors of a plane crash continues.

Elsewhere TV-wise, Kiefer Sutherland is set to discover how deep the rabbit hole goes in new espionage series Rabbit Hole, while two-part documentary 1939: Secrets of Hollywood’s Golden Year lifts the lid on the secrets and scandals surrounding Tinseltown’s most important year.

On the film side of things, there’s new Judd Nelson starring true-crime kidnap thriller Girl in the Basement, and Francis Ford Coppola’s complete, recently restored Godfather Trilogy is headed our way too. Truly an offer we can’t refuse.

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Here’s what we know is headed for Paramount+ UK this month…

New movies coming to Paramount+ UK in March 2023

The Godfather I, II & Coda | 1 March

The Godfather (Paramount Pictures)
The Godfather (Paramount Pictures)

Among the greatest film trilogies of all time, Francis Ford Coppola’s gangster classics chronicle the trials of the Corleone crime family, led by Academy Award-winner Marlon Brando’s patriarch, Don Vito Corleone.

Read more: The Godfather - a legendary filmed forged in legendary turmoil

Featuring career-defining work from the likes of Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, and Diane Keaton, the whole trilogy (yes, including the newly recut Part III, Coda) is essential viewing.

Girl in the Basement | 7 March

Girl in the Basement (Paramount)
Girl in the Basement (Paramount)

Inspired by the horrific case of Elisabeth Fritzl, who was imprisoned for 24 years in the basement of her family home by her monstrous father Josef, Girl in the Basement stars Stefanie Scott as Sarah Cody.

On turning 18, her father (Judd Nelson) takes her prisoner, where she’s repeatedly assaulted and abused for over two decades as the rest of her family presume her missing, even dead. The devastating truth of what has been happening comes out when Sarah escapes.

New TV shows coming to Paramount+ UK in March 2023

1939: Secrets of Hollywood’s Golden Year | Boxset drops on 1 March

F6HGE3 1939, Film Title: WIZARD OF OZ, Director: VICTOR FLEMING, Studio: MGM, Pictured: RAY BOLGER, CHARACTER, COWARDLY LION: WIZARD OF OZ, DOROTHY: WIZARD OF OZ, VICTOR FLEMING, JUDY GARLAND, JACK HALEY, BERT LAHR, SCARECROW: WIZARD OF OZ. (Credit Image: SNAP)
Judy Garland in The Wizard of Oz. (Snap/Paramount+)

1939 was, by all accounts, truly Hollywood’s Golden Year. Two of the biggest films of all time, Gone with the Wind and The Wizard of Oz, were released, and the likes of Judy Garland, Bette Davis, John Wayne, Hattie Daniels, and Laurence Olivier were in the prime of their careers. However, in this new two-part documentary, a host of experts as well as friends and family of stars of the time - Garland’s daughter Lorna and Olivier’s son Tarquin among others - are set to lift the lid on a town embroiled in secrecy and scandal.

The Challenge: World Championship | Episodes 1 and 2 drop on March 9

The Challenge: World Championship hosts (L-R) Brihony Dawson, Alejandro Wiebe, TJ Lavin and Mark Wright. (Paramount)
The Challenge: World Championship hosts (L-R) Brihony Dawson, Alejandro Wiebe, TJ Lavin and Mark Wright. (Paramount)

After intense battles around the globe, The Challenge: World Championship is set to bring champions and MVPs from The Challenge: Argentina, The Challenge: Australia, The Challenge: U.K. and The Challenge: USA together to decide who will become Challenge World Champion.

There’s also $500,000 on the line as the competitors duke it out over a series of extreme physical and psychological challenges.

School Spirits | Episodes 1, 2, and 3 drop on 10 March

Episode 101 “My So-Called Death”, Pictured, L-R: Xavier Baxter (Spencer McPherson), Maddie Nears (Peyton List), Rhonda (Sarah Yarkin), Claire Zolinski (Rainbow Wedell), Wally Clark (Milo Manheim), Charley (Nick Pugliese), Simon Elroy (Kristian Flores) and Nicole Herrera (Kiara Pichardo) in SCHOOL SPIRITS on PARAMOUNT+. Photo Credit: Ed Araquel/Paramount+. ©2022 Paramount Global, INC. All Rights Reserved.
L-R: Xavier Baxter (Spencer McPherson), Maddie Nears (Peyton List), Rhonda (Sarah Yarkin), Claire Zolinski (Rainbow Wedell), Wally Clark (Milo Manheim), Charley (Nick Pugliese), Simon Elroy (Kristian Flores) and Nicole Herrera (Kiara Pichardo) in School Spirits. (Paramount)

Cobra Kai star Peyton List leads the cast of School Spirits, a new supernatural mystery series set to fill the Wednesday-shaped hole in our lives. List stars as Maddie, a teen who finds herself stuck in the afterlife and investigating her own mysterious disappearance with a group of other students who are stuck in limbo at their high school. This one’s based on an upcoming YA graphic novel by Nate & Megan Trinrud and Maria Nguyen.

Yellowjackets S2 | Episode 1 drops on 24 March

(L-R): Nuha Jes Izman as Teen Crystal, Samantha Hanratty as Teen Misty, Alexa Barajas as Teen Mari, Sophie Nélisse as Teen Shauna, Courtney Eaton as Teen Lottie, Nia Sondaya as Teen Akilah, Sophie Thatcher as Teen Natalie, Jasmin Savoy Brown as Teen Taissa, Steven Krueger as Ben Scott and Liv Hewson as Teen Van in Yellowjackets (Showtime)
The Yellowjackets face more challenges in the wilderness in S2. (Showtime)

With its cast of 90s icons (Melanie Lynskey! Christina Ricci! Juliette Lewis! Tawny Cypress!) and two whole timelines worth of mysteries to unpack, fans have been desperately awaiting the second series of girl-eat-girl survival drama Yellowjackets.

Read more: Why Yellowjackets is the best show on TV right now

And now the (un)lucky survivors of that Canadian mountainside plane crash are back, with executive producer Jonathan Lisco recently telling Empire how this season is set to chart deeper and darker territory as it “really explores female rage”.

Rabbit Hole | Episode 1 and 2 drops on 27 March

Kiefer Sutherland as John Weir of the Paramount+ series Rabbit Hole. (Marni Grossman/Paramount+)
Kiefer Sutherland as John Weir of the Paramount+ series Rabbit Hole. (Marni Grossman/Paramount+)

24 and Designated Survivor alum Kiefer Sutherland finds himself fighting for his sense of what is real and for democracy itself in new espionage offering Rabbit Hole.

Here, Sutherland plays John Weir, a master of deception in the world of corporate espionage whose world is turned upside down when powerful forces conspire to frame him for murder. Paranoia, blended mobile phones, and a not entirely trustworthy looking Charles Dance await in this.

Watch a trailer for Rabbit Hole