Hard Sun Sells into 100 Territories

FremantleMedia International has secured a slew of deals on the pre-apocalyptic drama Hard Sun, which has now sold into 100 territories.

The series, produced by Euston Films, has been picked up by MNET (pan-Africa), Canal+ (French-speaking Africa, Poland), VRT (Belgium), Movies Best (Cyprus), DR (Denmark), Kino Polska (Central and Eastern Europe, Russia), HBO Europe (Scandinavia, Spain, Eastern Europe), YLE (Finland) and COSMOTE (Greece). Further deals were concluded with Telecom Italia (Italy), Manoto TV (Iran), BluTV (Turkey), Alibaba (China) and Bravo (Canada).

Hard Sun premiered in the U.K. on BBC One earlier this month and launched on Hulu on March 7 in the U.S.

Jens Richter, CEO of FremantleMedia International, commented, “Hard Sun is a world-class, thrilling drama which has received an impressive reception so far and is now getting the global recognition it deserves. We are partnering closely with the team at Euston Films to showcase this fantastically written series by Neil Cross to audiences across the world.”