{"id":658101,"date":"2026-10-27T01:08:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658101\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T01:08:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T01:08:11","slug":"heughan-madigan-join-ascent-tv-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/658101\/","title":{"rendered":"Heughan, Madigan Join &#8220;Ascent&#8221; TV Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/heughan-madigan-join-ascent-tv-series.jpg\" data-caption=\"Universal Pictures, Starz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/heughan-madigan-join-ascent-tv-series.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"heughan-madigan-join-ascent-tv-series\"\/><\/a>Universal Pictures, Starz<\/p>\n<p>The Viola Davis-led thriller Paramount+ TV series \u201cAscent,\u201d set in the world of global corporate crisis and damage control, is casting up with some big names.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOutlander\u201d star Sam Heughan and \u201cWeapons\u201d Oscar winner Amy Madigan have boarded the series created by John Logan (\u201cPenny Dreadful,\u201d \u201cMichael,\u201d \u201cSkyfall\u201d).<\/p>\n<p>Davis plays Catriona, an elite corporate fixer tasked with weaponising the ruthless skills that have made her indispensable to billion-dollar clients when her estranged daughter is in danger.<\/p>\n<p>Heughan plays Conal, a top agent at Ascent Ventures, a man dubbed a lethally charming and natural chameleon who uses social cunning and ruthlessness to get the job done.<\/p>\n<p>Madigan plays Rachel, a former executive at Ascent Ventures and lifelong mentor to Davis\u2019s Catriona.<\/p>\n<p>Davis and Julius Tennon are executive producing the show alongside Michael Aguilar.  Filming begins in Los Angeles early next year.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/amy-madigan-joins-ascent-viola-davis-paramount-plus-1237173167\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Deadline<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Previous article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/details-on-hulus-looksmaxxing-documentary\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Details On Hulu\u2019s Looksmaxxing Documentary<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next article<a href=\"https:\/\/www.darkhorizons.com\/disney-renews-coven-academy-for-season-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Disney Renews \u201cCoven Academy\u201d For Season 2<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Universal Pictures, Starz The Viola Davis-led thriller Paramount+ TV series \u201cAscent,\u201d set in the world of global corporate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658102,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[146,85,46,411],"class_list":["post-658101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658101\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}