A+E Networks EMEA, Sky Order Royal Kill List

72 Films, which was behind Royal Bastards: Rise of The Tudors for Sky HISTORY, is producing the three-part miniseries Royal Kill List.

The co-production between A+E Networks EMEA and Sky is set to premiere on Sky HISTORY in early 2024. Royal Kill List features Sheila Atim, Jared Harris and Joseph Fiennes.

On January 30, 1649, for the first and only time, a British monarch, King Charles I, was publicly executed, having been tried and convicted of treason by Parliament. This bloody spectacle heralded ten years of Britain as a republic before, in May 1660, the monarchy was restored with the accession of King Charles II. There followed public celebration and acclamation for the new king, but he was in no mood for forgiveness.

While publicly planning his own lavish coronation to take place the following year, in April 1661, the new king had, behind the scenes, ordered an exhaustive search for the death warrant ordering his father’s execution. On finding it and the 59 signatories appended to it (only 38 of whom were still alive by that time), Charles ordered the biggest manhunt in royal history.

Dan Korn, VP of programming at A+E Networks EMEA, said: “Following the celebrations that recently heralded a new Carolean era, there can be no better time to revisit the events surrounding one of King Charles III’s most famous antecedents and namesakes, whose defiance of Parliament set in train a series of bloody events whose historic legacy endures to this day.”

Julian Jones, executive producer from 72 Films, said: “After the success of our previous collaboration, Royal Bastards: Rise of the Tudors, we are thrilled to be teaming up once again with Sky History. Royal Kill List takes us to one of the most precarious, resonant and bloody moments in British history, where the entire idea of monarchy hangs in the balance, and the story of how Charles II takes back the throne plays like the ultimate revenge thriller.”