GoQuest’s Rats Sells into Australia

GoQuest Media has inked a deal with the Australian national pubcaster SBS for the crime thriller Rats.

The 6×55-minute series, produced by Heaven’s Gate, centers on the Czech drug trade. It is based on true stories and made in collaboration with the National Anti-Drug Centre of the Czech Republic (DEA).

Rats was created and written by Czech screenwriter Miro Šifra (Rédl) and directed by Viktor Tauš (Vodnik, Clownwise, Dom) of Heaven’s Gate and Matěj Chlupáček (Terapie) of Barletta Productions in association with Czech TV and MD4.

The series first aired in spring 2020 in prime time on Česká televize.

SBS On Demand’s channel manager, Haidee Ireland, said: “Rats is a thrilling and stylish series, and we are excited to have it join our collection of world class dramas from all over the world, handpicked and curated for local audiences on SBS On Demand.”

Jimmy George, VP of sales and acquisitions at GoQuest Media, added, “We are delighted to have SBS introducing Rats to Australian audiences. The series has a one-of-a-kind approach to the traditional worldview of drugs both in terms of its protagonist’s story as well as the physical world it is set in. This is a new and extremely interesting universe that viewers will be introduced to, and we can promise they won’t be disappointed.”