Int’l buyers take The Hardacres from Banijay Rights

The Hardacres goes global

NEWS BRIEF: BritBox in Australia, TVNZ in New Zealand, TV4 Sweden, MTV in Finland, DR in Denmark, RTÉ in Ireland and BBC First in Benelux have acquired Wolf Hall producer Playground’s period family saga The Hardacres (6×60′) from Banijay Rights.

The series, which chronicles the lives of a working-class family as they move from a grimy fish dock to a vast country estate in 1890s Yorkshire, England, recently launched in the UK on Paramount-owned Channel 5. It was produced by Playground in association with Screen Ireland, Red Berry Productions and Newgrange Pictures.