{"id":23083,"date":"2025-07-28T11:08:37","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:08:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T11:08:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:08:39","slug":"fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen\/","title":{"rendered":"Fifth Season Secures Deals for Sight Unseen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth Season has inked sales deals for the ten-part crime drama <em>Sight Unseen<\/em> in Europe, AsiaPac and the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p>In the U.K. and Ireland, 5 and Paramount+ acquired seasons one and two. Both seasons were also picked up by Play Media in Belgium, Disney in Bulgaria and Talpa TV in the Netherlands.<\/p>\n<p>AXN Asia licensed the pan-regional rights to both seasons, and Action Channel bought the rights for Japan. Australia\u2019s Nine Network and Israel\u2019s yes also picked up seasons one and two.<\/p>\n<p>Warner Bros. Discovery, meanwhile, took season one for New Zealand, as did Disney for the Middle East.<\/p>\n<p><em>Sight Unseen<\/em> centers on top homicide detective Tess Avery, who is forced to quit her job after nearly killing her partner and being diagnosed as clinically blind. She uses an assistance app and connects with Sunny Patel, a professional seeing-eye guide and agoraphobe who lives 3,000 miles away. After solving a crime she left behind, Avery returns to the force as a civilian consultant. Using a hidden camera and earpiece, Patel remotely steers Avery and becomes her secret weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The series stars Dolly Lewis, Agam Darshi (<em>DMZ<\/em>), Jarod Joseph (<em>The 100<\/em>) and Daniel Gillies (<em>Virgin River<\/em>). It is created by Karen Troubetzkoy (<em>Killjoys<\/em>, <em>Orphan Black<\/em>) and Nikolijne Troubetzkoy (<em>Skymed<\/em>, <em>Transplant<\/em>) and produced by Blink49 Studios, a Fifth Season-backed company, and Front Street Pictures, in association with Sisters Troubetzkoy Productions, CTV, The CW and the participation of the Canada Media Fund, Rogers Series Fund and the Bell Fund.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s great to be bringing another show from our partners at Blink49 to broadcasters all around the world,\u201d said Jennifer Ebell, executive VP of television distribution at Fifth Season. \u201c<em>Sight Unseen<\/em> is a fresh take on the crime genre, with a female lead who is sight impaired and authentically cast at its center. Crime procedurals continue to have strong global appeal, and this series delivers with smart twists on a bankable genre.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fifth Season has inked sales deals for the ten-part crime drama Sight Unseen in Europe, AsiaPac and the Middle East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":23084,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[4901,413,5190,5372,7938,10114,934],"class_list":["post-23083","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-blink49-studios","tag-ctv","tag-fifth-season","tag-front-street-pictures","tag-jennifer-ebell","tag-sight-unseen","tag-the-cw","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Fifth Season Secures Deals for Sight Unseen - 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\/fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Fifth Season Secures Deals for Sight Unseen - TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Fifth Season has inked sales deals for the ten-part crime drama Sight Unseen in Europe, AsiaPac and the Middle East.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVDRAMA\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-07-28T15:08:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-07-28T15:08:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/11\/2025\/07\/FifthSeason-SightUnseen-0725.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"640\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"394\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Jamie Stalcup\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen\/\",\"name\":\"Fifth Season Secures Deals for Sight Unseen - TVDRAMA\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2025-07-28T15:08:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-07-28T15:08:39+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/#\/schema\/person\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/fifth-season-secures-deals-for-sight-unseen\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Fifth Season Secures Deals for Sight Unseen\"}]},{\"@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\/0da12602224807cc7b179b8405018deb\",\"name\":\"Jamie Stalcup\",\"description\":\"Jamie Stalcup is the executive editor of World Screen. 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