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The Worst Journey in the World: Graphic Novel

The worst journey in the world.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest survivors of Captain Scott’s ill-fated attempt to reach the South Pole, published his memoir of the expedition in 1922. The Worst Journey in the World humanised the epic tragedy with its sensitive observations of the men involved and evocative descriptions of Antarctic life.

A century later, this classic of travel literature is being adapted into a series of graphic novels by Disney veteran Sarah Airriess, who has spent over a decade researching the expedition in order to tell the story completely and faithfully. The personalities of the men, and the science they undertook, are equally as important to understanding the story as the famous feats of exploration.

The book is available in the UK in London, Cambridge, and Dundee; in the US at Silver Sprocket in San Francisco, and in New Zealand via the AHT. A German translation is available via Panini. See the link above for more details. If you are a bookseller who’d like to stock it, please contact my fine publishers at Indie Novella .

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Terror in the Antarctic: graphic novels revisit the horror of the ‘worst journey in the world’

A century on from the publication of Cherry Apsley-Garrard’s classic book about Scott’s doomed Antarctic expedition, a new graphic novel version revisits his terrible tale

On 27 June 1911, three men set off on a polar trip that was to earn itself a remarkable reputation. Their midwinter Antarctic expedition became known, quite simply, as the worst journey in the world.

Henry “Birdie” Bowers, Apsley Cherry-Garrard and Bill Wilson – members of Robert Scott’s doomed Terra Nova expedition to the Antarctic – were aiming to collect emperor penguin eggs in the middle of winter. The trip was supposed to be a scientific prelude to Scott’s thrust to the south pole. It nearly killed its participants.

For more than a month they endured blizzards and temperatures that plunged to -60C and below in the pitch black. They navigated by candlelight and stars and frequently fell into crevasses. Cherry-Garrard’s teeth chattered so violently they shattered. “Sometimes it was difficult not to howl,” he recalled.

After 35 days, the trio returned to their base camp, close to death. Cherry-Garrard never fully recovered from the ordeal, describing his experiences in his book, The Worst Journey in the World , which was published 100 years ago.

It remains one of the most enthralling and disturbing accounts of an expedition of any sort and its centenary is being celebrated by its being adapted into a series of graphic novels, illustrated by former Disney animator Sarah Airriess, which is being published in collaboration with the Scott Polar Research Institute in Cambridge. “My ambition is to bring you an epic story from the pages of history in a fun and engaging way,” she says in her introduction.

When Bowers, Cherry-Garrard and Wilson made their trip, it was thought the emperor penguin was one of the planet’s most primitive birds. Analysis of their embryos would reveal links between all birds and their reptile predecessors. The trouble was that the emperor penguin lays its eggs in the Antarctic midwinter, hence the decision to make the 70-mile trip from Scott’s base camp on Ross Island to the penguin colony at Cape Crozier.

“So we started, just after midwinter, on the weirdest bird’s-nesting expedition that has ever been or ever will be,” Cherry-Garrard wrote. Pulling two sleds of food and equipment, the trio trudged into gale-battered darkness. The thick, cloying snow meant they could pull only one sled at time, so they hauled them in relay, gaining only one mile for every three they walked.

Every night the men had to chip their way into their frozen sleeping bags. “We began to look upon minus 50s [temperatures] as a luxury we did not often get,” Cherry-Garrard wrote. At one point, their tent was blown away and they lay in their sleeping bags without food or cover for two days until the winds receded and they were able to recover it.

Slowly they approached Cape Crozier. “We got towards the emperor penguins and it really began to look as if we were going to do it, when we came up against a wall of ice which a single glance told us we could never cross.” The men were devastated until Wilson spotting a hole in the ice they could crawl through.

“Bill and Birdie rapidly collected five eggs which we hoped to carry safely in our fur mitts,” Cherry-Garrard later wrote. Two were dropped and smashed but three were saved. “We had been out for four weeks in conditions in which no man had existed previously for more than a few days, if that. During this time we had seldom slept except from sheer physical exhaustion as men sleep on the rack; and every minute of it we had been fighting for the bed-rock necessaries of bare existence and always in the dark. This journey has beggared our language: no words could express its horror.”

On the evening of 1 August, the trio made it back to the main expedition’s HQ. No one spotted them until they reached its door. “‘Good God it’s the Crozier expedition,’ said a voice and the men staggered in. Cherry looked about 30 years older than he had when he had set off, his cadaverous face scarred and corrugated, nose dark, eyes dull and hands white and wrinkled. His toenails were falling off and his fingers were useless,” Sara Wheeler notes in her biography , Cherry: A Life of Apsley Cherry-Garrard .

The youngest member of Scott’s expeditionary team, Cherry-Garrard was physically shattered and quite unable to join the final, ill-fated journey to the pole – unlike his companions. Together with Edgar Evans and Lawrence Oates, Wilson and Bowers – led by Scott – headed off for the south pole on 1 November. They reached their destination on 17 January 1912 – to discover that they been beaten to their target by Roald Amundsen’s Norwegian expedition. On the return journey, Evans and Oates perished before the other three – Scott, Bowers and Wilson – ran out of provisions as they headed back to base camp and on 20 March they could go no further and they died in their tent nine days later.

Cherry-Garrard was reunited with his old egg-hunting comrades one last time, however. In late October 1912, after the Antarctic winter had abated, he and several others set out to discover what had happened to Scott and his men. They were doubtless dead. But where were their bodies?

On 12 November, the top of a tent was spotted and Cherry-Garrard entered to find Scott at its centre. Bowers and Wilson rested on either side. They appeared at peace but Scott looked agitated, as if he had struggled to the last. The men’s skin had turned yellow and glassy in the cold.

“That scene can never leave my memory,” Cherry-Garrard recalled. “We never moved them. We took the bamboos of the tent away and the tent itself covered them. Over them we built the cairn.” The party’s leader, Edward Atkinson, read the lesson for the burial service from Corinthians. Cherry-Garrard was devastated, particularly for the loss of Wilson and Bowers. “These two men … were gold, pure, shining, unalloyed. Words cannot express how good their companionship was,” he wrote.

The expedition survivors returned to England on the Terra Nova and Cherry-Garrard presented the eggs to the Natural History Museum in London in 1913. He was made to wait in a corridor while an assistant talked to a more important person. “I handed over the Cape Crozier embryos, which nearly cost three men their lives and cost one man his health, to your museum personally and … your representative never even said thanks,” Cherry later wrote to the museum.

Worse, the scientific rationale behind the launching of the midwinter egg-collecting expedition was evaporating even before the men set off for Antarctica . A report of the subsequent analysis of the three emperor eggs concluded they had not “added greatly to our knowledge of penguin embryology”. It was a devastating end to a tale of astonishing human endurance.

As for Cherry-Garrard’s delay in writing The Worst Journey in the World , the cause was straightforward. The first world war intervened. “Before I had recovered from the heavy overdraft made on my strength by the expedition, I found myself in Flanders,” he recalled. “I came back badly invalided; and the book had to wait accordingly.”

The end result is now considered a classic that has been ranked number 1 in National Geographic’s 100 best adventure books of all time. “It is not only a comprehensive narrative of the Terra Nova expedition but a beautiful piece of writing,” as Airriess, author of the new graphic-novel series, says. Or, as the New York Review of Books once put it: “ The Worst Journey in the World is to travel what War and Peace is to the novel … a masterpiece.”

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‘The Worst Journey in the World’ Becomes Graphic Novel

Exactly 100 years after its original publication, the greatest adventure story ever told gets a 21st-century upgrade.

The tragic tale of Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s expedition to the South Pole has been immortalized in many ways, but few have remained as powerful as the 1922 memoir from Aspley Cherry-Garrard.

Cherry-Garrard did not accompany Scott to the South Pole. Rather, his mission was to capture emperor penguin eggs. It nearly killed him and his two companions. But Cherry-Garrard lived to tell the tale, and what a tale it was.

His book, “The Worst Journey in the World”, has aged into one of the classics of the adventure genre — and is now available as a beautifully illustrated graphic novel.

Sarah Airriess, a veteran animator at Disney, spent more than 10 years researching Cherry-Garrard’s expedition to illustrate a faithful version of the story.

“The personalities of the men, and the science they undertook, are equally as important to understanding the story as the famous feats of exploration,” the graphic novel’s website said.

Judging by the gorgeous sample pages available online, Airriess has devoted significant time and passion to this project.

Another image from Sarah Airriess’ graphic novel. Image: Sarah Airriess

‘No words could express its horror’

Cherry-Garrard set off on his bizarre and terrible expedition in June 1911. He joined two other members of Scott’s larger group: Henry “Birdie” Bowers and Bill Wilson.

Their mission sounded simple: to collect emperor penguin eggs. Unfortunately for them, the birds only laid eggs in the middle of the world’s most profound winter. As a result, this side trip from Scott’s South Pole ambitions nearly killed all three of them.

The men faced a month of blizzards and temperatures that reached -60˚C — all during the pitch-black of Antarctic winter. It was so consistently frigid that they joked that they considered -50˚ a heat wave. They navigated by the stars, frequently fell into crevasses, and hauled heavy sleds through the sandpaper snow at those temperatures.

From the prologue of Sarah Airriess’ graphic novel. Image: Sarah Airriess

Somehow, the small team managed to complete their trek from Scott’s base camp on Ross Island to the penguin colony at Cape Crozier. When they returned with three eggs to Scott’s base camp, Cherry-Garrard couldn’t continue with Scott. Wilson and Bowers did and perished, leaving Cherry-Garrard the sole survivor of the ordeal.

As for the eggs, the Natural History Museum in London soon decided the eggs didn’t provide much scientific value after all. Cherry-Garrard’s memoir expresses profound anguish over the journey and its terrible result.

“We had been out for four weeks in conditions in which no man had existed previously for more than a few days, if that,” he wrote. “During this time we had seldom slept except from sheer physical exhaustion as men sleep on the rack; and every minute of it we had been fighting for the bed-rock necessaries of bare existence and always in the dark. This journey has beggared our language: no words could express its horror.”

‘It’s just the best action movie’

Scott’s larger expedition to the South Pole proved even more tragic than Cherry-Garrard’s penguin eggs mission.

Norwegian explorer Roald Amundsen had already beaten the British explorer, arriving at the Pole first. Scott and his companions died of starvation during their return journey, just 11 miles away from a cache of supplies.

As for Airriess and her graphic novel, the illustrator had a simple answer for why the adventures of Scott and Cherry-Garrard have always fascinated her.

“It’s just the best action movie,” she said in the interview above while visiting Scott’s base camp in Antarctica. “There are all sorts of feats of daring-do and narrow scrapes and tobogganing down icefalls, and it’s so much fun. I think that’s something people sometimes lose when they’re reading the words on the page…They’re not really seeing the epic adventure cinema that I see in my head when I’m reading it.”

The gorgeous samples of Airriess’ work certainly reflect her passion for this story. While her website promises wider distribution in the future, you can purchase the first graphic novel in her series here or here .

Airriess has also provided a few free sample pages from her prologue .

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The Worst Journey in the World , adapted by Sarah Airriess from the book by Apsley Cherry-Garrard.

In 1922, Apsley Cherry-Garrard, one of the youngest members of Captain Scott’s British Antarctic (Terra Nova) Expedition 1910–1913, published his memoir of the expedition. The Worst Journey in the World humanised the epic tragedy with its sensitive observations of the men involved and evocative descriptions of Antarctic life.

A century later, this classic of travel literature is being adapted into a series of graphic novels by Disney veteran Sarah Airriess, who has spent over a decade researching the expedition in order to tell the story completely and faithfully. The personalities of the men, and the science they undertook, are equally as important to understanding the story as the famous feats of exploration.

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The Worst Journey in the World

A Talk by Sarah Airriess

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Hear the story of the Terra Nova Expedition from former Disney animator Sarah Airriess , and learn how she’s adapting one of the classic expedition accounts into a full-colour, cinematic graphic novel.

Sarah is a Canadian-born artist, who has lived in Cambridge since 2014. She spent a great deal of her time perusing the Scott Polar Research Institute in Lensfield Road, to learn about Robert Falcon Scott’s party and their tragic visit to the Antarctic to piece together her graphic Novel.

Sarah Airriess Career

• 2022 – Published Vol.1 of The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel
• 2022 – Designed the “Bringing the Worst Journey in the World to Life” exhibit for the Polar Museum
• 2019 – Antarctic Artist and Writer (W-223) with the US Antarctic Program, based at McMurdo
• 2016-present – Guest teacher and mentor with Hochschule Luzern Design & Kunst, Lucerne, Switzerland
• 2015-present – Guest teacher at The Animation Workshop, Viborg, Denmark
• 2014-2022 – Various London animation studios
• 2013-2014 – Google, assistant animator for Spotlight Stories
• 2008-2013 – Walt Disney Animation Studios, animator and character designer for films including The Princess and the Frog and Paperman
• 2002-2007 – Various animated productions in Vancouver, Canada

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Sarah Airriess is currently working on a graphic novel adaptation of The Worst Journey in the World , with the help of the Scott Polar Research Institute , numerous interested and friendly experts, and the generosity of her supporters on Patreon , where the development of the book is shared. Vol.1 should be out in late 2022. It is currently the focus of a pop-up exhibit at The Polar Museum in Cambridge. Information and news on the book is at worstjourney.com .

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• 2022 - Published Vol.1 of The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel
• 2022 - Designed the "Bringing the Worst Journey in the World to Life" exhibit for the Polar Museum
• 2019 - Antarctic Artist and Writer (W-223) with the US Antarctic Program, based at McMurdo
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• Cross-referencing published and unpublished diaries, letters, and memoirs to create a day-by-day chronicle of the Terra Nova Expedition from the greatest possible umber of viewpoints
• Collecting visual reference for objects and locations relating to the Terra Nova Expedition in order to illustrate their proper appearance and usage
• Learning enough about the scientific disciplines involved on the Terra Nova Expedition to communicate the science to the reader in a narrative context
• Airriess, S. & Cherry-Garrard, A. (2022). The Worst Journey in the World: The Graphic Novel (Vol.1). London: Indie Novella.
• Airriess, S. (2016). Book Review: The man who found Captain Scott. Antarctic explorer and war hero. Surgeon Captain Edward Leicester Atkinson (1881–1929) DSO AM MRCS LRCP, Royal Navy. Michael C. Tarver. 2015. Brixham: Pendragon Maritime Publications. Polar Record, 52 (3), 378-379. doi:10.1017/S0032247415000856
• May, K., & Airriess, S . (2015). Could Captain Scott have been saved? Cecil Meares and the 'second journey' that failed. Polar Record, 51 (3), 260-273. doi:10.1017/S003224741300096X
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The Best and the Worst Journey in the World: Sarah Airriess

Oscar-winning Disney animator Sarah Airriess  speaks with Kathryn Ryan about her new project, a series of graphic novels re-telling the story of the earliest explorers to the South Pole. Based on Captain Scott's team-mate Apsley Cherry-Garrard's memoir of their ill-fated 1912 expedition The Worst Journey in the World , Sarah's adaptation is breathing new life and love into it. You can keep abreast of the project and donate here  and download sample chapters for free . Sarah left Hollywood behind for this passion project, but she had made her mark. Frozen , Winnie the Pooh, Wreck-It Ralph , the Academy Award winning Paperman , plus the much loved Simon's Cat are all on Sarah's CV.

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"Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised." — Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Before the Pole . . .

Before Antarctica . . .

Before everything went wrong . . .

It's June 1910, and Cherry, inexperienced and unqualified, has just joined Captain Scott's new expedition to the South Pole. Simply getting to Antarctica turns out to be an adventure. As they sail the Terra Nova through one trial after another, the scientists and Navy men learn to work as a team – but are they a match for the fury of the Southern Ocean, which threatens to sink the expedition before it even begins?

Apsley Cherry-Garrard wrote THE WORST JOURNEY IN THE WORLD as a testament to his companions and the experiences they shared. Humanizing one of the most famous epics of exploration, his 1922 book is still regarded today as one of the finest works of adventure literature ever written. The people and their daring exploits are brought vividly back to life in this exhilarating graphic novel adaptation.

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Ayanna Has Come in Hot on 'The Challenge: All Stars 4'

The Challenge: All Stars 4 has come in swinging with a stacked cast and a well-balanced group of individuals searching for redemption while others are coming back to play after decades away. Through a fun bit of editing, introducing the cast with a superlative, the cast is ready to play and fight for the grand prize. Filled with lovers in Leroy Garrett and Kam Williams , exes in Laurel Stucky and Nicole Zanatta , and BFFS, in Veronica Portillo , Tina Barta , and Rachel Robinson , The Challenge: All Stars 4 has inherent bonds and rivals that are set to use their relationships in the game. In a game of social politics, previous relationships and reputations are a key to success.

With the series bouncing between men and women eliminations in each episode, the second episode found the women at the center of the action. With a mission honoring Road Rules with an RV-inspired challenge, the bottom three women at risk of elimination included Tina, Janelle, and Jasmine Reynaud . Having a 66% chance of being sent for elimination, Janelle had decided to accept her fate and was asking to be sent into the elimination challenge. After speaking to Ayanna and Kam about her request, Ayanna was not too keen about her wish. Ayanna and Janelle had already had an iffy relationship stemming from their run on The Challenge: All Stars 2 . But what was about to come was beyond stirring the pot. Janelle never asked who she wanted to go against, but Ayanna, in an attempt to be a political mastermind, wanted something in return.

Without knowing who Janelle wanted to compete against or whose start she wanted to try to steal, Ayanna manipulated Janelle's words and spread a lie that Janelle wanted to battle Jasmine. Spinning that into the house and accusing Janelle of lobbying against Jasmine, Ayanna's true colors began to shine like a neon sign. She acknowledged that it was manufactured and part of her crazy, but she claimed it was making a champion move. But where things get chaotic is when Ayanna tells some of the cast that she had no intention of voting for Jasmine. During the cast night out, everything came to a head, where the lies Ayanna spewed caused Janelle to have to defend herself on the spot. And of course, Ayanna is sitting off the side as the battle is brewing. She is happy to see her plotting working, smiling in confessional as "Rumors" by Lindsay Lohan plays as underscoring. Cut to the deliberation. Let's see where Ayanna's head is at.

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In the first two episodes of The Challenge: All Stars 4 , Ayanna had a pretty central role in the storytelling. Unfortunately for her, all things positive were twisted into something a bit diabolical. Before the deliberation began, Janelle once again tried to defend herself, but Ayanna was present to accuse her of gaslighting and using her tears for sympathy. Upon the middle group meeting to vote on which of the three women would face elimination, the consensus was to honor Janelle's wishes to face elimination. As for her opponent, that's where Ayanna became a central figure in the discussion. In a bit of hilarious editing, viewers were granted a montage of Ayanna going on a long-winded monologue about her relationships with Tina and Jasmine, who she rides with, and her desire for a quid-pro-quo, using apples as a prop. The room began to laugh as she still hadn't revealed her second vote for elimination, but was not fond of allegedly being cut off.

Ayanna's never-ending monologue, which stated she hoped would lead to one of the current star holders nominating themselves to compete, led to her decision to vote in her ally Jasmine, the woman who she accused Janelle wanting, for elimination. This was not taken too well by the very confused room, causing Leroy to walk out of the room in complete frustration and confusion. The psychological warfare Ayanna inflicted in the house caused Janelle to quit on the spot. According to social media posts, there may be a lot more to the story of Ayanna and Janelle , much of which was not aired or can be discussed. Jasmine alleged that Janelle was put through a lot and Ayanna may have had a sidekick to help stir the pot. Meanwhile, Janelle has stated that she is limited in what she can discuss. It is alleged that perhaps things beyond the game came up in a heated discussion that caused the massive riff between Ayanna and some of her fellow Challengers.

Ayanna Has a Checkered History on 'The Challenge'

As part of the eighth season of Road Rules , Ayanna and her cast took part in a unique spin of the program. Titled Road Rules: Semester at Sea , Ayanna, who appeared alongside her fellow The Challenge: All Stars 4 cast mate Veronica Portillo, lived on a cruise ship as they balanced the typical Road Rules shenanigans all while taking classes for school. The unique season allowed the cast of six to travel the world, from the Caribbean to Asia. But like all seasons of Road Rules , there was conflict among the cast. And Ayanna was a central figure in the conflict. Whether she was resentful of the closeness her other female cast mates made or accusing Veronica of plagiarism on paper, Ayanna had never been afraid to speak her mind. It's a power trait to have, and ripe for reality television.

As typical in The Real World and Road Rules era of The Challenge , many cast members were given the opportunity to extend their fifteen minutes of fame by being invited to compete on The Challenge , or whatever the official title was at the given time. Throughout her history on The Challenge , Ayanna has not given herself the best reputation. Ayanna, after her appearance on Road Rules: Semester at Sea , first joined The Challenge family in the fourth season, RealWorld/RoadRules Extreme Challenge . Still formatted as a Real World vs Road Rules type season, Ayanna was the sole representative of her original season. But the Ayanna viewers knew from Semester at Sea was back on Extreme Challenge . But her time on the season was short as she found herself removed from Extreme Challenge for physically assaulting teammate Christian Breivik off camera. Though some would say she was instigated, the rules are the rules.

Ayanna Has a Chance To Redeem Herself

The next time fans would see Ayanna back on their screens was during Real World/Road Rules: Battle of the Sexes . In this season, cast members from The Real World and Road Rules blended together, as this season found the players divided by gender. In this era of The Challenge , the Inner Circle was the determining factor for who would be sent home. There would be no elimination rounds for individuals to save themselves, it was all about the decisions the top performers made. For the most part, Ayanna's biggest trait of the season was her competitive nature. While points weren't on her side, Ayanna's elimination was warranted.

But something during that experience sparked something in Ayanna that set her off when she would next appear in the sequel to Battle of the Sexes . By Battle of the Sexes 2 , a major alliance that had dominated the series was the mean girls known as Veronica, Rachel, and Tina. Their dominance was tested throughout the season, and there were many casualties that felt their wrath along the way. During one of the most iconic moments of Battle of the Sexes 2 , Ayanna went on a diatribe about sleeping in her uniform because she wanted to win. She was ready to go! Sadly, this would be the last time Ayanna would appear on the flagship program.

When Ayanna finally returned to the show on The Challenge: All Stars 2 , she came in with a fresh perspective on life and a fire to win. Her grit and tenacity were a shining attribute that allowed her to get to the finals. Perhaps a detriment to the competitors who hadn't partaken in the new generation of The Challenge , running TJ's final is not for the faint of heart. Many times, players have had to quit in the middle of the final due to the brutal toughness and extreme physical strain they face. Sadly for Ayanna, she became a statistic and a casualty in TJ's final. She gassed out on the final challenge and quit alongside Tech Holmes . Fortunately for Ayanna, she has the chance to redeem herself on The Challenge: All Stars 4 . As long as she can play the game and keep her cool.

At the moment, Ayanna is seen as a loose cannon and a threat because of her unpredictability. Should she continue to go against the grain, Ayanna will be an unreliable liability. She is an agent of chaos. And that is NOT someone you want to align with. Ayanna has yet to net a win during her tenure on The Challenge . With this season's extreme crop of competitors, this may not be the easiest path to victory. Ayanna needs one friend to sit her down and help her realize that the game of The Challenge is partially physical prowess paired with a smart political social game. As long as Ayanna read the room following Leroy's walk out, things could swing up for her. But if her pride gets the best of her, The Challenge: All Stars 4 will not be her victory lap.

The Challenge: All Stars 4 streams Wednesdays on Paramount+ in the U.S.

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