The upcoming
David Tennant miniseries Litvinenko
has been picked up by a host of buyers across
80 international markets, including AMC+ and Sundance Now in the USA and Amazon’s Prime Video in Canada.
Written by George
Kay and produced by Patrick Spence, ITV Studios and Tiger Aspect
Productions, the drama tells the story of Alexander Litvinenko, the former
Russian Federal Security Services and KGB officer, whose death from polonium
poisoning in November 2006 triggered one of the most complex and dangerous
investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police.
The show will make
its UK debut on ITV’s upgraded streaming service ITVX, which launches this
autumn, and on NENT Group’s Viaplay streaming service in
the Nordics, Netherlands, Poland and Baltics.
Elsewhere, Litvinenko
will air on M6 France, ProSieben Sat1 Germany, Sky Italia, Asia Pacific,
Seven Network Australia, TVNZ New Zealand and Now TV Hong Kong. It will
also be available in India through Viacom
18 and on M-Net in a pan-Africa
deal.
Litvinenko stars David Tennant as Alexander Litvinenko, the
former Russian Federal Security Services and KGB officer whose death, from
Polonium-210 poisoning in November 2006, triggered one of the most complex and
dangerous investigations in the history of the Metropolitan Police. The
four-part drama is the story of the determined New Scotland Yard officers who
worked to prove who was responsible for Litvinenko’s death. The drama co-stars Mark
Bonnar as Clive Timmons and Neil Maskell as Brent Hyatt, former New Scotland Yard
officers involved in the investigation, and Margarita Levieva as Litvinenko’s
widow Marina. The series has been directed by Jim Field Smith and was filmed on
location in and around London.
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