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SBS picks up new drama, doco titles at MIPCOM.

A new sex documentary from Cara Delvingne, a period drama set around a former slave plus an Agatha Christie whodunnit spin-off coming to SBS.

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SBS has picked up docuseries Planet Sex with Cara Delevingne, a co-production between Fremantle’s Naked Television and Delevingne’s Milkshake Production.

The show, which Delevingne presented to industry trade event MIPCOM on Tuesday, has sold to 92 territories worldwide.

SBS has alco acquired Drama Republic’s new period drama, The Confessions of Frannie Langton.

Described as a “compelling murder mystery and searing depiction of race, class, and oppression set in the dazzling opulence of Georgian London,” the four-part series is adapted by author Sara Collins, and follows 20-year-old former slave girl Frannie Langton, as she journeys from a Jamaican plantation to the grand mansion of George Benham and his beautiful wife, Madame Marguerite. Soon after Frannie is gifted to Benham, she finds herself the prime suspect of a double murder. With no recollection of that night, Frannie must piece together the possible events and fight to tell her story.

Finally SBS has Australian rights for whodunnit drama Agatha Christie’s Hjerson from German distributor ZDF Studios. The series is billed as a “playful mystery drama with a contemporary meta twist – marking the first time an Agatha Christie character has gained an offshoot series. Johan Rheborg stars in the leading role as detective Sven Hjerson, a former investigator who solved some of Sweden’s toughest crimes now living on the fringes of society.

Source: Rapid TV News, Deadline, Hollywood Reporter

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  1. The Agatha Christie’s Hjerson is a bit of a stretch. Ariadne Olivier was a mystery writer whom Christie inserted into some conversations with Poirot in her novels. This is a German/Swedish production with a Nordic Noir detective they have created Hjerson, pretending he is Oliver’s detective, done very much in the style of Les Petits Meurtres d’Agatha Christie (or Agatha Christie’s Criminal Games as SBS called it). Of which the French did 11 set in the 1930s with Commissaire Larosiere and 27 set in the 1950-60s with Commissaire Swan Laurence as the detectives.

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