Syfy U.K. Adds Persons Unknown to Lineup

LONDON: The Syfy channel has picked up the exclusive U.K. television rights to Persons Unknown, a 13-part mystery drama series, from Twentieth Century Fox Television Distribution.

The series, created by Academy Award-winning writer Christopher McQuarrie (The Usual Suspects), who executive-produced with Heather McQuarrie and executive producer/showrunner Remi Aubuchon, airs on NBC in the U.S. Persons Unknown will make its U.K. premiere on Syfy on October 31 as a seven-week special event. It is produced by Fox Television Studios in association with Televisa. Starring Alan Ruck (Star Trek, Spin City), Daisy Betts (Shutter, Sea Patrol) and Jason Wiles (Third Watch, Beverly Hills 90210), Persons Unknown follows a group of seven strangers who are abducted and find themselves in a deserted town with no recollection of how they got there.

Laurence Dawkin-Jones, the U.K. managing director at Universal Networks International, said, “Persons Unknown is a unique and gripping psychological thriller. Contained within 13 hour-long episodes, it lends itself perfectly to event scheduling of this kind and we’re confident it will have viewers hooked throughout its seven-week run.”