‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ Season One arrives on Digital July 24, from Paramount Home Entertainment. This serves as a prequel series to the cult classic original, ‘Grease.’ Paramount+ announced it would be canceling the series before it was removed from the platform. Season one will now get a digital and DVD release.
Starring Emmy® Nominee Jackie Hoffman (Garden State) as Vice Principal McGee, Marisa Davila (“I Am Not Okay with This”) as Jane, Cheyenne Isabel Wells as Olivia, Tricia Fukuhara (Queenpins) as Nancy, Ari Notartomaso (Paranormal Activity: Next of Kin) as Cynthia, Shanel Bailey (“The Equalizer”) as Hazel, Johnathan Nieves (“Penny Dreadful: City of Angels”) as Richie, Jason Schmidt (“FBI: Most Wanted”) as Buddy, Madison Thompson (“Ozark”) as Susan and Maxwell Whittington-Cooper (“When They See Us”) as Wally.
Credit: Paramount‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ was written, and executive produced by creator Annabel Oakes (“Atypical,” “Transparent”), who also served as showrunner and director.
SYNOPSIS:
‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ tells the origin story of the infamous 50’s girl gang. It’s 1954, four years before the original Grease, and the moral panic over juvenile delinquency, sex, drugs, and rock n’ roll in Rydell is reaching a fever pitch and the adults are desperate to get control. Enter four outcast teenage girls who band together to become rebels with a cause. Together they’ll shake Rydell out of the silent 50’s and into the new rock n’ roll era.
‘Grease: Rise of the Pink Ladies’ will also be available on DVD November 7, with over 30 minutes of special features.
