NBC Universal has picked up scripted thriller
The Sounds for its thriller channel 13ÈME RUE in
France. The eight-part series is a co-production from New
Zealand's South Pacific Pictures and Canada's
Shaftesbury, with US streamer Acorn, Canadian pubcaster CBC and Sky
TV in New Zealand.
Written by Kiwi writer Sarah-Kate Lynch
(The Bad Seed, 800 Words), the series is set in New
Zealand's Marlborough Sounds and stars Rachelle Lefevre (Proven
Innocent, Mary Kills People) and Matt Whelan (Go Girls,
The Luminaries).
All3Media International is shopping the
series, which will premiere in France in January.