{"id":5122,"date":"2016-09-20T09:47:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-20T13:47:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/ukrainian-political-comedy-optioned-for-the-u-s\/"},"modified":"2016-09-20T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-09-20T19:00:17","slug":"ukrainian-political-comedy-optioned-for-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvformats\/ukrainian-political-comedy-optioned-for-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Political Comedy Optioned for the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KIEV: Fox Studios has optioned the U.S. remake rights for the political comedy <em>Servant of the People<\/em> produced by Ukrainian production company Kvartal 95 and sold by Eccho Rights.<\/p>\n<p>The story is about a history teacher, Vasiliy, who was caught on camera raging over the miserable situation in his country. When a pupil posts the video on YouTube, it becomes a viral sensation and people start gathering money for a presidential campaign\u2014which he wins. <em>Servant of the People<\/em> follows Vasiliy\u2019s new life as president.<\/p>\n<p>Vladimir Zelenskiy, co-founder and creative producer of Kvartal 95, commented: &#8220;We are very proud to be the producers of the first Ukrainian series one of [the] U.S. majors is acquiring the rights for. It is a breakthrough for the whole Ukrainian television industry. The story about an ordinary teacher who became president of the country and began to fight against corruption at all levels\u00a0was resonant for millions of people in our country. But the original idea is universal since all over the world people want to see decent and honest politicians at the helm of the state.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Servant of the People<\/em> is such a strong comedy concept and is so relevant with the contemporary mistrust in politicians,\u201d said Nicola S\u00f6derlund, managing partner at Eccho Rights. \u201cFrom the first time I heard about it, I immediately thought that this [is] going to be a hit. It\u2019s simply a brilliant series.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KIEV: Fox Studios has optioned the U.S. remake rights for the political comedy Servant of the People produced by Ukrainian production company Kvartal 95 and sold by Eccho Rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":5123,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[179,655,656],"class_list":["post-5122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-eccho-rights","tag-fox-studios","tag-kvartal-95","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Ukrainian Political Comedy Optioned for the U.S. - TVFORMATS<\/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\/tvformats\/ukrainian-political-comedy-optioned-for-the-u-s\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Ukrainian Political Comedy Optioned for the U.S. - 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