Starz has announced that straight-to-series thriller Counterpart is set to premiere Sunday, January 21st, 2018.
From Justin Marks (The Jungle Book), Counterpart tells the story of Howard Silk (JK Simmons), a low level player at a Berlin-based UN spy agency. After discovering that his agency is guarding the secret of crossing into parallel dimensions, Howard finds himself thrust into a world he never knew exist, one in which his life is on the line and one where the only person he can trust is a near-identical copy of himself from a parallel world.
In addition to Simmons, Counterpart stars Olivia Williams (The Sixth Sense), Nazanin Boniadi (Homeland), Harry Lloyd (Manhattan), Nicholas Pinnock (Marcella), and Ulrich Thomson (Banshee).
The series is the second 2018 Starz series with a confirmed premiere date, joining Ash vs Evil Dead, which will debut its third season in February. It will be one of several new series in the pipeline for Starz, including restaurant drama Sweetbitter, Mexican-American sister drama Vida, and a miniseries based on E.M. Forster’s Howards End.
You can check out a trailer for Counterpart below.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3Bu2DOM66g
