News round-up: BritBox Int’l & Acorn TV pick up ‘Granite Harbour’; France TV, RAI & RTBF enter ‘The Age Of Anger’; ‘Baltic Crimes’ sells into 95 countries

Granite Harbour

BritBox Int’l & Acorn TV pick up ‘Granite Harbour’

BritBox International in the US and Canada and Acorn TV in Australia and New Zealand have picked up British crime drama Granite Harbour, following deals with Eccho Rights.

Produced by LA Productions, in association with Dopamine, the series launched on BBC1 and BBC Scotland in December 2022.

The 3 x 60-minute (or 2 x 90-minute) drama, follows a rookie Aberdeen cop who is thrown into the deep end on his first day on the job when a high-profile figure is found dead.

The show will launch on BritBox in the US and Canada on 1 August and come to Acorn TV later in the autumn.

“Viewers in the UK loved this fish out of water story and we can’t wait to share it with audiences in North America, Australia and New Zealand,” said Lucy Roberts, director of sales at Eccho Rights.

La Edad De La Ira

France TV, RAI & RTBF enter ‘The Age Of Anger’

France Televisions, RAI in Italy and RTBF in Belgium have picked up Spanish drama La Edad De La Ira (aka The Age Of Anger), following deals with Artresmedia.

The show, which has already sold to ViX for the US and Lat Am, is a four-part adaptation of the novel of the same name by Nando López.

Beginning with the brutal murder of a man, allegedly at the hands of his son, a teenager with no apparent problems, the killing up-ends the daily life of a high school where students and teachers wonder what has gone wrong for a popular, almost perfect boy, to have ended up committing such a crime.

Manu Ríos, Amaia Aberasturi, Daniel Ibáñez, Carlos Alcaide and Eloy Azorín head the cast.

‘Baltic Crimes’ sells into 95 countries

Crime drama Baltic Crimes has been sold across 95 countries including the US, France, Japan, Spain and the UK, where it has been picked up by Channel 4 and Walter Presents.

The 19 x 90-minute series, which is distributed by OneGate Media, is produced by Tim Gehrke with Razor Film Production and Polyphon Film.

The series centres around mother and daughter investigators, Karin Lossow, a former district attorney who has returned to the island of Usedom after serving a prison sentence, and her daughter Julia Thiel, a Detective Chief Superintendent.

Set between both sides of the border, together Karin and Julia investigate criminal cases that take place on the Baltic Island. Amidst their professional work, the series sees Karin and Julia battle with the complexities of their own relationship, following the traumatic murder of Julia’s father, at the hands of Karin.