The Alienist to Air in France

The period drama The Alienist has been picked up by STUDIOCANAL in France.

Paramount Worldwide Television Licensing & Distribution signed a deal that will see the show premiere on Polar+, Canal+ Group’s leading crime channel, in April. The Alienist launched on January 22 on TNT in the U.S., where it averaged 3.1 million total viewers in Live+3 viewing, including nearly 1 million viewers 18 to 49.

Shot in Budapest, Hungary, The Alienist is a co-production of Paramount Television and Turner’s Studio T. The thriller is set amid the underbelly of New York City’s Gilded Age. It follows Laszlo Kreizler, a brilliant and obsessive “Alienist” in the controversial new field of treating mental pathologies, who holds the key to hunting down a never-before-seen ritualistic killer murdering young boys.