As recently announced, Showtime and Paramount are merging operations to become the newly designated Paramount+ on Showtime. With the two entertainment enterprises teaming up, it seems Paramount Global exec Chris McCarthy is likely hoping to transform "Billions" into a multi-series franchise the same way he helped shepherd Paramount's neo-Western smash "Yellowstone" into its "1883," "1923" and pending "6666" iterations (per The Hollywood Reporter).
With its basic narrative foundation of obscenely wealthy and powerful financial titans playing a high-stakes game of cat-and-mouse with the legal and regulatory entities charged with the never-ending task of keeping them honest, "Billions" seems tailor-made for franchising. The basic premise of the show certainly lends itself to endless permutations of capitalism gone wild and the consequences thereof. So, with this promising legacy to build on, it's perhaps a little disappointing that the spin-off titles mentioned thus far are, yes, "Millions" and "Trillions," as detailed in the same The Hollywood Reporter article noted above. Still, the prospect of more big-money capers makes the prospect of a wider "Billions" universe something to look forward to.
