AMC Streamer Acorn TV Nabs ‘Bodyguard’ Creator Jed Mercurio’s Crime Thriller ‘Bloodlands’ (EXCLUSIVE)
Naman Ramachandran AMC Networks’ streaming service Acorn TV has acquired exclusive U.S. and Canadian rights to BBC One crime thriller series “Bloodlands” from Hat Trick International and executive producer Jed Mercurio (“Line of Duty,” “Bodyguard”).The four-part series, written by Chris Brandon (“Red Rock”), stars James Nesbitt (“Cold Feet,” “The Hobbit” trilogy) as a veteran detective in Northern Ireland going into his own dark past to try and solve a cold case.“Bloodlands” will bow as an Acorn TV Original in the U.S.