Archive · 19 Sep 2026
HBO Orders The Spread Series Starring Javier Bardem
HBO has ordered a new television series called The Spread.
Javier Bardem will star in it and help produce it.
The story takes place in Miami, where enormous wealth and financial competition collide.
Bardem will play a visionary billionaire.
The billionaire brings together talented and dangerous people.
He wants Miami to become an even more important center of economic power.
Bill Dubuque, who helped create Ozark, wrote the series with Sean Sansiveri.
Several major streaming services reportedly wanted the show, but HBO won the bidding.
HBO has given The Spread a straight-to-series order starring and executive produced by Javier Bardem.
The drama comes from Ozark co-creator Bill Dubuque, Sean Sansiveri and Fifth Season.
Matthew Vaughn is attached to direct, with HBO co-producing alongside Fifth Season, Makeready and Topic Studios.
Set in Miami, the series follows a billionaire who gathers ambitious figures and seeks to shift economic power toward the city.
Netflix, Prime Video, Paramount+ and Apple TV reportedly made competing offers before HBO secured the project.
- Who
- Javier Bardem, Bill Dubuque, Sean Sansiveri, Fifth Season and HBO are central to the project; Matthew Vaughn is set to direct.
- What
- HBO ordered The Spread directly to series, with Bardem starring and executive producing.
- When
- The project was taken out for sale in August during the fall television selling season; the article does not provide a specific order date.
- Where
- The series is set in Miami, Florida.
- Why
- The drama explores power, ambition, wealth and competition surrounding Miami’s rise as a financial center.
- Network
- HBO
- Series
- The Spread
- Lead actor
- Javier Bardem
- Creators
- Bill Dubuque and Sean Sansiveri
- Director
- Matthew Vaughn
- Setting
- Miami, Florida
- Production companies
- Fifth Season, HBO, Makeready and Topic Studios