Project Blue Book, Knightfall Notch Up More Deals

A+E Networks has secured further sales for its scripted UFO series Project Blue Book and season two of the Knights Templar drama Knightfall.

The second season of Knightfall features Mark Hamill (Star Wars) alongside star Tom Cullen (Downton Abbey, Gunpowder) and welcomes Aaron Helbing (The Flash, Spartacus: War of the Damned) as showrunner and executive producer. New licensing agreements for season two have been secured for Vodafone (Iceland), HISTORY (India and Latin America), D’Live (Korea), SABC (Africa), Euro TV (France), Corus (Canada), SBS (Australia) and Sky Prime (New Zealand).

From A+E Studios and executive produced by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Back to the Future, Contact), the 20-episode drama series Project Blue Book is based on the true, top-secret investigations into Unidentified Flying Objects and related phenomena conducted by the United States Air Force in the 1950s and ’60s and stars Aidan Gillen (Game of Thrones) and Michael Malarkey (The Vampire Diaries). Leading into MIPTV, broadcasters on board for the all-new ten-episode second season of Project Blue Book include Sci Fi Channel Europe (U.K.), Corus (Canada), SBS (Australia), TVNZ (New Zealand), U-Next (Japan), HISTORY (Korea, Latin America, Japan and Southeast Asia), HISTORY TV18 (India), OTE (Greece), Manoto (Farsi speaking diaspora), Mesimvria (Cyprus) and Showmax (Africa).