{"id":12457,"date":"2019-12-05T10:08:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-05T15:08:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/roadside-attractions-snaps-rights-robert-dugonis-eighth-sister\/"},"modified":"2019-12-05T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2019-12-05T15:10:05","slug":"roadside-attractions-snaps-up-rights-to-robert-dugonis-the-eighth-sister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/roadside-attractions-snaps-up-rights-to-robert-dugonis-the-eighth-sister\/","title":{"rendered":"Roadside Attractions Snaps Up Rights to The Eighth Sister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Roadside Attractions Television has acquired Robert Dugoni\u2019s best-selling and critically acclaimed spy thriller <em>The Eighth Sister<\/em>, the first in a planned series.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Eighth Sister<\/em>, set in present-day U.S. and Russia, centers on long-retired African American CIA case officer Charles Jenkins. Brought back in by his former bureau chief to run a top-secret mission in Moscow, he ultimately finds himself running for his life and possibly betrayed by his own country.\u00a0Roadside Attractions, a Lionsgate sister company, has optioned the rights to the novel and is developing the title as a series.<\/p>\n<p>Jennifer Berman, Roadside Attractions senior VP, said, \u201cRobert Dugoni\u2019s amazing book <em>The Eighth Sister<\/em> explores the real-world tensions and spy tradecraft of today\u2019s international politics in a thrilling way, and we couldn\u2019t be more excited to bring it to audiences. Our push into television is allowing us to reach more deeply and broadly into stories and ideas that we find exciting and important, and this is a perfect example of acquiring a bestseller that could not be more timely or topical and tailor-made for a series format.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Roadside Attractions Television has acquired Robert Dugoni\u2019s best-selling and critically acclaimed spy thriller The Eighth Sister, the first in a planned series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":12458,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[3552,3553],"class_list":["post-12457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-roadside-attractions","tag-the-eighth-sister","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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