Julia Roberts joins rush by top actors to big-budget TV streaming

Star is latest A-lister on the small screen as Amazon and YouTube launch new series

Streaming TV is ushering in a high-rolling, gold rush era, with Hollywood actors signing up to a slew of big-budget shows.

This month, two hotly anticipated shows will launch that encapsulate the genre’s newfound popularity. Julia Roberts stars in the Amazon series Homecoming, earning a reported £450,000 per half-hour episode, while YouTube makes its biggest foray into UK programming with the sci-fi series Origin – directed by the Resident Evil and Event Horizon director, Paul WS Anderson, and featuring Natalia Tena and Tom Felton, who both starred in the Harry Potter film series.

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