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Canal+ gets Hunted down

France’s Canal+ has acquired the first season of UK spy drama Hunted, which the BBC cancelled last year but is due to live on thanks to Cinemax in the US.

Hunted

Hunted

Canal+, which airs prior Kudos Film & Television series Spooks, has now licensed rights to eight-parter Hunted, exec produced by Frank Spotnitz (The X Files) and starring Melissa George.

BBC1 ended its own involvement with the series last year but HBO-owned US cablenet Cinemax stepped in soon after, lending its support for a second installment.

The Canal+ deal is one among a number of sales secured by distributor Shine International in France, amounting to 60 primetime hours in total.

Cultural net Arte, which previously acquired Swedish robot thriller Real Humans, has now added 1950s-set British espionage drama The Hour to its line-up.

The series, which stars Dominic West and is exec produced by Abi Morgan (The Iron Lady), premiered in France on Orange Cinema Series – which will debut the second season next month – but Arte now has free-to-air rights.

Digital terrestrial net TF6 has also picked up Real Humans, which is made by Matador Film for SVT1 and which Kudos is developing as an English-language project, along with another Swedish drama, The Bridge – now in the works with Sky in the UK and with Canal+ in France.

To watch C21TV’s video interview with Hunted creator Frank Spotnitz and star Melissa George, click here.

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