Boutique co-producer and distributor About Premium Content (APC) has agreed a raft of international sales for season one of its Cold War drama series “Shadow Lines,” including to AMC Networks’ str…
A second season of the 1950s Helslinki-set spy thriller has been commissioned by Finnish streaming serviceAs well the Sundance Now deal, APC has also secured sales for the series to SBS in Australia; Viasat World’s Epic Drama Channel across Central and Eastern Europe, Baltics and CIS; RTP2 in Portugal; Proximus in Belgium; AMC’s Sundance TV in Spain; and in Switzerland both public broadcaster RTS and cable channel UPC.
Produced by Zodiak Finland for Elisa Viihde, “Shadow Lines” is a period spy thriller written by mother and daughter team Kirsti Manninen and Katri Manninen and directed by AJ Annila and Alli Haapasalo. The first season of the mixed-language series – which is in Finnish, English and Russian – was broadcast in October 2019.
Laurent Boissel and Emmanuelle Guilbart, joint-CEOs and co-founders at APC, said: “We are thrilled to be bringing ‘Shadow Lines’ to a host of new territories, and putting the highly anticipated second season into development.” Shannon Cooper, VP of programming at Sundance Now, said: “With its riveting script and fascinating historical setting, Shadow Lines will make an excellent addition to Sundance Now’s slate of high-quality dramas.”
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