French broadcaster picks up premium scripted package from ITV Studios
France Télévisions has picked up a raft of scripted shows from ITV Studios, including Prime Video’s Dead Hot and Channel 4 thriller The Gathering.
Dead Hot debuted on Prime Video in the UK earlier this year and was created and written by Charlotte Coben and produced by ITVS-owned Quay Street.
The show delves into themes of class, love and identity through the friendship of Elliot (Bilal Hasna) and Jess (Vivian Oparah), who come together following the trauma of losing Elliot’s first love and Jess’s twin brother.
France TV has also picked up rights to The Gathering, which is produced by ITVS’s Line Of Duty and Vigil outfit World Productions.
The thriller explores what it means to be a teenager, or the parent of teenagers, and has been acquired alongside fellow World production tennis drama Fifteen-Love, which debuted on Prime Video in the UK last year.
The bumper scripted deal also includes second-window rights to Netflix and BBC1 crime thriller The Serpent, which was produced by Mammoth Screen.
The eight-parter tells the story of how conman and murderer Charles Sobhraj was brought to justice and became BBC iPlayer’s most popular show with 31 million streams across the series when it launched in 2021.
Manuel Alduy, France TV’s head of cinema & international & young adult fiction, described the package as “innovative new series that cover modern issues with entertaining stories.”
The deal was brokered on behalf of ITVS by Cristina Brun, vice-president of sales for EMEA.
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