Canada’s Crave Pre-Buys British Crime Drama Series ‘Dope Girls’
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: Canadian streamer Crave has acquired BBC drama Dope Girls. The Bad Wolf-produced series was one of the buzziest at the recent LA Screenings, where a full episode was on show, and Bell Media-owned streamer Crave has now swooped to take local rights from distributor Sony Pictures Television.
It will be unveiled as part of Bell’s Upfront in a few minutes, we hear, along with other U.S. and international acquisitions and a swathe of original and returning programs for Crave, CTV and Bell’s other English- and French-language networks.
Revealed by Deadline last year, Dope Girls delves into the history of the inter-war Soho criminal underworld and is inspired by Marek Kohn’s Dope Girls: The Birth of the British Drug Underground non-fiction book.Set in the early 20th century, it follows a time when female gangs ran the clubs, drugs and moonshine distribution.
It will launch on BBC One and BBC iPlayer in the UK, and comes from Polly Stenham (The Face, The Neon Demon) and Alex Warren (Eleanor).
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