Sky & Peacock Team for Lockerbie Miniseries

Sky and Peacock have revealed Lockerbie, a new miniseries based on the bombing of Pan Am Flight 103.

The five-part series will be written by Academy Award nominees Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father, My Left Foot) and Kirsten Sheridan (In America, Dollhouse). It will follow the search for justice by Dr. Jim Swire and his wife who lost their beloved daughter in the air disaster in 1988.

The series will explore events from 1988 to the present day while providing an intimate account of a man—a husband and a father—who pushes his marriage, health and sanity to the edge.

The series is a co-production between UCP and Sky Studios, produced with Universal International Studios’ Carnival Films for Sky and Peacock. It is the first scripted co-commission from Sky and sister company Peacock.

Lockerbie is expected to air in 2023 on Sky in the U.K., Ireland, Germany and Italy. It will stream on Peacock in the U.S. NBCUniversal Global Distribution will be handling international sales.

The drama is based on the book The Lockerbie Bombing: A Father’s Search for Justice by Jim Swire and Peter Biddulph, along with multiple other sources.

Jim and Kirsten Sheridan said, “The bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 was one of the world’s deadliest terror attacks that continues to have widespread implications for the meaning of justice in the U.S., Scotland and Libya. Over 30 years on, this series takes an intimate and very personal look at the aftermath of the disaster, and we are grateful to all of those, particularly Jim and Jane, who have entrusted us to tell their story, and the story of their loved ones, on screen.”