Benedict Cumberbatch-Starring ‘Sherlock’ Sells Wide for BBC Studios – Global Bulletin
variety.comNaman Ramachandran BBC Studios has scored a raft of sales on all seasons of smash hit series “Sherlock,” starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Martin Freeman as Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson. Amazon Prime Video will take non-exclusive SVOD global rights to all four series of the series and the special, “The Abominable Bride,” excluding the U.S., Australia, and greater China.
In China, the series will be available exclusively on Tencent Video, while Japanese broadcaster Mystery Channel has acquired the exclusive pay TV license for its AXN Mystery channel.
In Russia, the series will have co-exclusive SVOD home on Yandex’s Kinopoisk. Cosmote has secured exclusive Pay TV and non-exclusive SVOD rights for Greece and public broadcaster RTVE in Spain has picked up non-exclusive FVOD rights for its RTVE Play service.
In Canada, non-exclusive agreements with CBC Gem and BBC First are in place. Written and created by Steven Moffat and Mark Gatiss and inspired by the works of Arthur Conan Doyle, the series, produced by Hartswood Films, has won 12 BAFTAs and nine Emmys.The International Film Festival Rotterdam, which was forced to move online because of a resurgence of the COVID-19 pandemic, will have a physical component after all. Mijke de Jong’s “Along the Way,” which was originally announced as the opening film, will now play in cinemas during the festival’s closing weekend, as the Dutch government has allowed reopening of theaters from Jan.
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