Banijay Rights today announces Yellow Bird’s Swedish true crime drama series, The Hunt For A Killer, has been acquired by BBC Four. Set to transmit on the channel and BBC iPlayer later this summer, the series is set in southern Sweden in the late 1980s and revolves around the real-life disappearance and subsequent murder of a 10-year-old girl. It follows the 16-year investigation into the murder and the determination of the local police force to solve the case.
Critically-acclaimed as unique in its genre by the Swedish press, the series is a co-production between Banijay-owned Swedish production company, Yellow Bird, Swedish public broadcaster, SVT, and Film I Skåne.
Further international sales of The Hunt For A Killer have been made to SBS (Australia), RTL (Germany) and NBC Universal (France).
The BBC deal also follows hot-on-the-heels of another Swedish crime thriller from Yellow Bird, Bäckström, which was picked up earlier this year by AMC Networks in the UK, Canada and US, for its streaming service, Acorn TV.
BBC Four acquires Swedish Crime Drama, The Hunt For A Killer
