ITV Drama ‘Litvinenko’ Sells to Sundance Now and AMC+, Over 80 Territories

CANNES  —  The four-part drama “Litvinenko,” starring Scottish actor David Tennant, has offered to greater than 80 worldwide markets, forward of its debut on the brand new ITV streaming service, ITVX within the U.Okay., and on Nent Group’s Viaplay streaming service within the Nordics, Netherlands, Poland and the Baltics.

AMC Networks’ Sundance Now and AMC+ have acquired the unique U.S. rights to the drama, and Prime Video has taken the sequence in Canada. 

In Europe, “Litvinenko” will air on M6 in France, ProSiebenSat.1 in Germany, and Sky Italia, amongst others.

Within the Asia Pacific area, Seven Community Australia, TVNZ (New Zealand), and Now TV in Hong Kong are amongst these to have picked up the rights, together with Viacom 18 which can make the title out there on the Indian subcontinent. BookMyShow will maintain the TVOD rights in India, by way of its platform BookMyShow Stream, and M-Web has taken the drama for pan-Africa.

“This fascinating, thought-provoking story would pique the curiosity of viewers globally at any level, however maybe by no means extra so than this present second in time. We’re immensely proud to play our half in shedding mild on the circumstances surrounding Alexander Litvinenko’s dying all over the world,” mentioned Ruth Berry, managing director, international distribution at ITV Studios.

“Litvinenko” tells the story of a bunch of Scotland Yard officers who labored for 10 years to show who was answerable for the Russian dissident’s dying. 

Written by George Kay (“Lupin,” “Legal”), and produced by Patrick Spence, ITV Studios, and Tiger Side Productions, the drama is directed by Jim Discipline Smith (“Legal,” “Fact Seekers”).

“Litvinenko” was produced with the assist of key people concerned within the investigation and within the public enquiry, together with former Scotland Yard officers Clive Timmons and Brent Hyatt together with Ben Emmerson QC and Litvinenko’s household. It was commissioned for ITV by head of drama, Polly Hill. 

The story begins in November 2006, when two cops have been referred to as to College Faculty Hospital in London to interview a affected person unwell. It was Litvinenko, who claimed to have been poisoned on the direct orders of Vladimir Putin. 

With info he supplied to the police from his bedside, detectives tracked down two Russians who had poisoned Litvinenko with Polonium 210, a extremely poisonous radioactive substance.

After he was pronounced lifeless on Nov. 23, Scotland Yard launched a homicide investigation.

The drama additionally tells the story of Marina, performed by Margarita Levieva (“The Deuce,” “The Blacklist”), his widow who fought laborious to steer the British authorities to publicly identify her husband’s killers and acknowledge the position of the Russian state in his homicide.