DCD picks drama trio, shops Frankie Drake

UK-based DCD Rights has acquired dramas Thorne, Run and The Indian Doctor to add to its distribution slate.

Frankie Drake Mysteries was picked up in Spain and Portugal

Starring David Morrissey (The Walking Dead) and Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones), Thorne is a Stagereel/Cité-Amérique coproduction in association with Sky, The Movie Network, Movie Central, 87 Films, Artists Studio and Auburn Entertainment.

The six-episode UK crime drama, which premiered on Sky One in 2010, is based on Mark Billingham’s novels.

Run, meanwhile, is an ACME Films production for Channel 4 that debuted in 2013. The four-part miniseries stars Olivia Colman (The Crown) and Lennie James (Line of Duty) and weaves together the stories of four seemingly unconnected people facing life-changing decisions in a world where every choice is a luxury.

Finally, The Indian Doctor is a three-season series that ran on BBC1 from 2010 to 2013, produced by Rondo Media and Avatar Productions.

Set in the 1960s, the show centres on a South Wales coal mining community that is changed forever when a high-flying graduate from Delhi (Sanjeev Bhaskar) arrives to replace the local doctor.

Elsewhere, Portuguese broadcaster S4 and LUK International in Spain have picked up the fourth season of Frankie Drake Mysteries from DCD Rights, with LUK also relicensing the first three seasons.

The drama, which is produced by Shaftesbury Production in association with UKTV and Canada’s CBC, follows the only female private detectives in 1920s Toronto as they take on the cases the police don’t want to touch.