eOne MIPCOM Slate Features New Kiefer Sutherland Drama

LOS ANGELES: Entertainment One (eOne) has five new prime-time network titles on its slate for MIPCOM, including the Kiefer Sutherland-led Designated Survivor.

Sutherland will deliver a special media mastermind keynote with a Q&A on Monday, October 17, at 4:40 p.m. in the Grand Auditorium. He stars in the new conspiracy thriller/family drama Designated Survivor as Tom Kirkman, a lower-level United States cabinet member who is suddenly appointed president after an attack during the State of the Union kills everyone above him in the presidential line of succession.

The MIPCOM portfolio for eOne also includes the investigative drama Conviction, with Hayley Atwell (Avengers: Age of Ultron); the serialized crime drama Cardinal, with Billy Campbell (The Killing) and Karine Vanasse (Revenge); the drama Ransom, with Luke Roberts (Black Sails, Game of Thrones), Sarah Greene (Penny Dreadful), Brandon Jay McLaren (Graceland, The Killing, Chicago Fire), Nazneen Contractor (Heroes Reborn, Covert Affairs, 24) and Emma de Caunes (Un frére…, The Diving Bell and the Butterfly); and the comedic drama Foreign Bodies.

Coming soon from eOne will be a new serialized crime drama Ice, starring Donald Sutherland, Cam Gigandet, Jeremy Sisto and Ray Winstone, as well as Mary Kills People, a controversial drama set in the morally grey world of assisted suicide.