Amazon picks up BBC Christie dramas

Streaming giant Amazon has picked up the latest BBC Agatha Christie adaptations for its US service from distributor IMG.

The BBC announced its adaptation of a further seven Christie novels with producer Mammoth Screen, starting with Ordeal by Innocence, over the next four years in August last year.

IMG signed up to distribute the series at MipTV and has now sealed a deal to make the shows available exclusively to Amazon Prime members in the US.

Ordeal By Innocence starts production later this month with an ensemble cast including Bill Nighy (Love Actually, Pirates of the Caribbean) and Alice Eve (Star Trek Into Darkness).

The plot plunges a family into chaos when it transpires the black sheep of their group, Jack Argyll, is innocent of a murder he was accused of a year earlier. The Argyll family must come to terms with Jack’s innocence and the fact one of them could be the real killer.

The series reunites Mammoth Screen, Agatha Christie Limited and writer and executive producer Sarah Phelps following the success of previous BBC1 Christie adaptations And Then There Were None in 2015 and The Witness for the Prosecution in 2016. Amazon will also become the streaming home for these series in the US.