Little Drummer Girl begins global march

Endeavor Content is shopping The Little Drummer Girl in Cannes

MIPCOM: French pay TV broadcaster Canal+, NPO in the Netherlands and TV4 in the Nordics are among the channels to have picked up the latest adaptation of a John le Carré novel, The Little Drummer Girl.

US firm Endeavor Content, formed when WME’s content financing and IMG’s sales groups came together last year, is in Cannes shopping the series this week and has already signed up a host of channels.

OTT service StarzPlay has taken the drama for Germany, Italy, Ireland, Benelux and a second window in the UK. BeTV has it in French Belgium and Movistar+ in Spain, along with Hot and Kan 11 in Israel, BBC First and SBS in Australia and TVNZ in New Zealand.

The six-part miniseries is financed and produced by The Ink Factory (The Night Manager) in partnership with 127 Wall, alongside coproducers and commissioning broadcasters the BBC and AMC. International rights are handled by Endeavor Content.

Starring Alexander Skarsgård and Michael Shannon and set in the 1970s, the plot follows a fiery actress and idealist whose resolve is tested by a mysterious man she meets on holiday in Greece who involves her in a complex espionage situation.