The package includes the BritBox commission Travels With Agatha Christie with Sir David Suchet (5 x one hour) from Soho Studios and Two Rivers Media, Jon and Lucy’s Odd Couples (6 x one hour) produced by King of Sunshine, The Murder of Sandra Rivett (1 x 90’) a Woodcut Media production, Breaking Dad: Britain’s Unlikeliest Drug Dealer (2 x one hour) from Big Little Fish, Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple (aka Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Suspense) (1 x 67’) produced by Honey Bee Media, Diana: The Interview That Shook the World (1 x one hour) from Rogan Productions and Susan Hill’s The Small Hand: A Ghost Story (1 x 94’) produced by Awesome and Two Rivers Media.
Anne Corsak, Sphere Abacus Sales Director for North America, comments, “Factual programming from the UK continues to engage and entertain viewers around the world and we are delighted to have secured sales to BritBox for these exceptional titles from some of the UK’s leading indies.”
Travels With Agatha Christie with Sir David Suchet is a touching, humorous and fascinating series with national treasure Sir David Suchet travelling the world, following in the footsteps of the Queen of mystery, Dame Agatha Christie; Jon and Lucy’s Odd Couples see comedians Jon Richardson and Lucy Beaumont pit pairs of famous guest couples against each other; The Murder of Sandra Rivett – while the hunt for Lord Lucan dominated the narrative for half a century, the name of his victim Sandra Rivett was forgotten… until now; Breaking Dad: Britain’s Unlikeliest Drug Dealer is the story of Richard Lubbock who contributed to the rise of meth in Britain in the early 2000s; Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and Miss Marple is a celebratory programme exploring Agatha Christie's ten most iconic works; Diana: The Interview That Shook the World is a candid interview with Princess Diana in which she broke every protocol exposing traumas and scandal of life in the Royal Household and chilling drama Susan Hill’s The Small Hand: A Ghost Story is based on Hill’s novel of the same name and written by Barbara Machin (Waking The Dead).
