{"id":14932,"date":"2021-05-12T09:55:17","date_gmt":"2021-05-12T13:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-four-acquires-hunt-killer\/"},"modified":"2021-05-12T11:14:18","modified_gmt":"2021-05-12T15:14:18","slug":"bbc-four-acquires-the-hunt-for-a-killer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-four-acquires-the-hunt-for-a-killer\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Four Acquires The Hunt for a Killer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay Rights has inked a deal with BBC Four for the Swedish true-crime drama series <em>The Hunt for a Killer<\/em>, produced by Yellow Bird.<\/p>\n<p>Set in southern Sweden in the late 1980s, the six-part series revolves around the real-life disappearance and subsequent murder of a 10-year-old girl. It follows the 16-year investigation into the murder and the determination of the local police force to solve the case. <em>The Hunt for a Killer<\/em> is set to transmit on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer later this summer.<\/p>\n<p><em>The Hunt for a Killer<\/em> is a co-production between the Banijay-owned Swedish production company Yellow Bird, Swedish public broadcaster SVT and Film I Sk\u00e5ne. Further international sales of <em>The Hunt for a Killer<\/em> have been made to SBS (Australia), RTL (Germany) and NBC Universal (France).<\/p>\n<p>Sue Deeks, head of program acquisition at BBC, said: \u201c<em>The Hunt for a Killer<\/em> is a chilling, authentic and evocative true-crime drama that BBC viewers will find completely absorbing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Chris Stewart, senior VP for UK and Ireland at Banijay Rights, said: \u201c<em>The Hunt for a Killer<\/em> has been described as Sweden\u2019s answer to <em>Manhunter<\/em>, compared with <em>True Detective<\/em>, and is worthy of the accolades. Brutally authentic and masterfully directed by Mikael Marciman, it\u2019s a true-crime drama that\u2019s guaranteed to get under the skin, and we can\u2019t wait to share it with the BBC audience.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Banijay Rights has inked a deal with BBC Four for the Swedish true-crime drama series The Hunt for a Killer, produced by Yellow Bird.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":14933,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1605,396,3955,2252],"class_list":["post-14932","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-banijay-rights","tag-bbc-four","tag-the-hunt-for-a-killer","tag-yellow-bird","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>BBC Four Acquires The Hunt for a Killer - TVDRAMA<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-four-acquires-the-hunt-for-a-killer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"BBC Four Acquires The Hunt for a Killer - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Banijay Rights has inked a deal with BBC Four for the Swedish true-crime drama series The Hunt for a Killer, produced by Yellow Bird.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-four-acquires-the-hunt-for-a-killer\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-05-12T13:55:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-05-12T15:14:18+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2017\/07\/The-Hunt-For-A-Killer_-Banijay-Rights-521.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"600\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"360\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-four-acquires-the-hunt-for-a-killer\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-four-acquires-the-hunt-for-a-killer\/\",\"name\":\"BBC Four Acquires The Hunt for a Killer - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-05-12T13:55:17+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-05-12T15:14:18+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-four-acquires-the-hunt-for-a-killer\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-four-acquires-the-hunt-for-a-killer\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-four-acquires-the-hunt-for-a-killer\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"BBC Four Acquires The Hunt for a Killer\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\",\"name\":\"TVDRAMA\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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