{"id":728681,"date":"2026-08-05T21:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728681\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T21:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:42:09","slug":"richard-madden-to-star-in-hostage-thriller-series-trauma-at-paramount","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/728681\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard Madden To Star In Hostage Thriller Series &#8216;Trauma&#8217; At Paramount+"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/richard-madden\/\" id=\"auto-tag_richard-madden_1\" data-tag=\"richard-madden\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Richard Madden<\/a> (Game of Thrones, Bodyguard) has been tapped to star in <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/trauma\/\" id=\"auto-tag_trauma_1\" data-tag=\"trauma\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Trauma<\/a> (working title), a new medical hostage thriller series for <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/paramount-2\/\" id=\"auto-tag_paramount-2_1\" data-tag=\"paramount-2\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Paramount+<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/prime-video\/\" id=\"auto-tag_prime-video_1\" data-tag=\"prime-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Prime Video<\/a>, from <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/lionsgate-television\/\" id=\"auto-tag_lionsgate-television_1\" data-tag=\"lionsgate-television\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lionsgate Television<\/a> and 42 Management &amp; Production. The series will premiere on Prime Video and Paramount+, with Prime Video serving as its exclusive home in the UK and Ireland, and Paramount+ releasing the series exclusively in all other territories. Production is set to begin in October.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The series came together through a co-production model brokered by\u00a0Lionsgate Television\u00a0and\u00a042, bringing together Prime Video and Paramount+ for distribution. Lionsgate holds a minority stake in 42. Prime Video and Paramount+ will co-produce. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Series is created by Geoff Bussetil\u00a0(Slow Horses,\u00a0Scoop, Skins), who also will write. In Trauma, when terrorists seize a busy London Hospital and take the Prime Minister hostage during surgery, former Royal Marines medic turned ER doctor Jim Marchant (Madden) must fight his way through the building to save everyone inside. As he takes the hospital floor by floor, the balance of power shifts\u2014and the building becomes a deadly battle of strategy, nerve and survival.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The series is directed by Daniel Syrkin\u00a0(Tehran,\u00a0MobLand) and produced by\u00a0Chrissy Skinns\u00a0(A Spy Among Friends,\u00a0The Last Kingdom), with 42\u2019s\u00a0Chris Kennedy\u00a0serving as co-producer. Madden, Syrkin and 42\u2019s\u00a0Ben Pugh\u00a0and\u00a0Ben Cavey\u00a0will executive produce.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Madden can next be seen in Netflix\u2019s upcoming series\u00a0Trinity. Previous credits include  Amazon feature\u00a0Killer Heat\u00a0and Marvel Studios\u2019\u00a0Eternals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Richard Madden (Game of Thrones, Bodyguard) has been tapped to star in Trauma (working title), a new medical&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":728682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[96,240945,3770,11523,240946,7814,391,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-728681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-lionsgate-television","tag-paramount","tag-prime-video","tag-richard-madden","tag-trauma","tag-tv","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=728681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/728681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/728682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=728681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=728681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=728681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}