The series now premieres Tuesday, September 12 at 9 p.m. (US time) on The CW, a week later than its original September 5 date. The CW acquired the US rights to the series in May. The eight-part series about an unknown enemy that lives deep under the sea premiered in Germany on ZDF earlier this year.
The story: Strange things are happening all over the world, spawned from the oceans: whales destroy boats, deep-sea crabs attack beaches, mussels block container ships. An unknown ice worm is destabilizing continental slopes and causing tsunamis. A deadly pathogen is spreading in drinking water. Lives are under increasing threat all over the world, the situation is worsening by the day - and yet no one can connect the seemingly random attacks.
Except for a group of scientists who come together because of their shared sense that something bigger is at play: an intelligent life force that dwells in the depths and is able to manipulate the ocean and everything in it. A creature that has witnessed our destruction of the seas and decided to exterminate us. But hardly anyone believes their findings. And so the group is forced to embark on a perilous mission to track down the intelligent life force in the Arctic Ocean. It's a mission they know could cost them their lives.
In the first episode, after years of rampant pollution and relentless climate change, a mysterious force from the deep begins to use the creatures of the ocean as hosts and declares war on humanity.
The Swarm (Der Schwarm) was created by executive producer Frank Doelger (Game of Thrones), Eric Welbers, Oscar-nominated producer Marc Huffam (The Martian, Saving Private Ryan), and Ute Leonhardt (Killing Eve).