ZDF Studios Sells ‘Agatha Christie’s Hjerson’ to Subject for North America

CANNES  — TV sequence “Agatha Christie’s Hjerson” has been picked up by streamer Subject for North America and by the Australian channel SBS, ZDF Studios introduced Tuesday at Cannes Mipcom commerce truthful. 

“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson” is being offered as each a 45-minute sequence and 4 feature-length tales. 

Subject has taken unique rights for the U.S. and Canada. SBS, a multicultural Australian broadcaster, has additionally closed an unique deal for the drama sequence.

Moreover, ZDF Studios has licensed this system to VOD platforms  Google Play, iTunes, Amazon, Deutsche Telekom and Huawei for German talking territories, in addition to Germany’s public broadcaster, ZDF. 

Different patrons embody Viasat World, which covers the Czech Republic, Poland, Ukraine, Croatia and the entire of Southeast Europe, Keshet (Israel), NHK (Japan), VR Movies (India), LRT (Lithuania) and Walter Presents, Walter Iuzzolino’s World Sequence Community for the U.Ok. and Eire.

“I’m delighted that this glorious drama, which sees a spin off character from the Christie universe has come to life for the primary time, has discovered its strategy to North America and Australia,” mentioned Yi Qiao, director of drama, ZDF Studios. 

The winner of MIPDrama’s award, the Coup de Coeur in 2021, that is the primary time an offshoot character from a Christie novel has been tailored right into a tv sequence.  Swedish comic, actor and scriptwriter, Johan Rheborg takes the a part of Sven Hjerson, and his sidekick Klara Sandberg is performed by Hanna Alström (“Kingsman: The Secret Service”).

Hjerson has solved a few of the hardest instances in Swedish crime historical past. Since then, he’s gone vegan and retired. Till a actuality TV producer (Sandberg) decides to create a TV present primarily based round him. 

“It’s not on daily basis that we get to introduce our subscribers to a brand new Agatha Christie detective,” mentioned Jennifer Liang at Subject. “We’re thrilled to welcome Swedish investigator Sven Hjerson to our world assortment of elevated crime and suspense packages.”

Haidee Eire, channel supervisor for SBS On Demand & SBS World Motion pictures added: “We’re keen about providing viewers content material from Australia and throughout the globe, and thrilled to offer ‘Agatha Christie’s Hjerson’ on the platform.”

“Agatha Christie’s Hjerson” was produced by Patrik Andersson and Ulf Synnerholm at BR•F for TV4/C Extra, in co-production with ZDF, Nadcon and the Authorities of Åland, and in shut collaboration with ZDF Studios and Agatha Christie Ltd. 

The sequence was created and developed by Patrik Gyllström at BR•F and was written by Patrik Gyllström, Björn Paqualin, Jakob Beckman, Martin Luuk and Aron Levander. It was directed by Lisa James Larsson and Lisa Farzaneh.