'The Last Panthers' Crime Series Acquired By HBO Nordic

New crime series, THE LAST PANTHERS (6 x 60), commissioned by Sky Atlantic and CANAL+, has been acquired by HBO Nordic, following the acquisition by SundanceTV, which has exclusive rights to screen the series in the US.

The show will air simultaneously to 21 million Sky customers in the UK, Ireland, Germany, Austria and Italy on the 12 November 2015. StudioCanal and Sky Vision, who are both managing worldwide distribution, have also pre-sold the series to 365 Iceland and Hot in Israel.

“We are thrilled to introduce this gripping European crime series with some of the most stellar European talents in front and behind the camera to our Nordic audience at The Home of Series,” says Line Mykland, COO at HBO Nordic.

“The Last Panthers is a very ambitious story, epic in its scope while being contemporary and relevant to the reality of crime in Europe today,” says Katrina Neylon, EVP, Sales and Marketing, STUDIOCANAL.

“Producers Haut et Court TV and Warp Films have created a series of rare quality with an international flavor which has landed in a great home at HBO Nordic,” added Leona Connell, Head of Global Sales for Sky Vision.

THE LAST PANTHERS, a six-part crime series based on real events, was commissioned by Sky Atlantic and CANAL+, and produced by Haut et Court TV (The Returned) and Warp Films (Southcliffe). The series stars two-time Academy Award® nominee Samantha Morton (Minority Report, Longford), French César Award winner Tahar Rahim (A Prophet, The Past), Goran Bogdan (We Will Be The World Champions, Na terapiji) and BAFTA and Golden Globe® Award winner actor John Hurt (Midnight Express, Elephant Man). Based on an idea by French journalist Jérôme Pierrat, and co-created and written by Jack Thorne (Skins), the series is directed by Johan Renck (Breaking Bad). Joint distribution is handled by STUDIOCANAL and Sky Vision. The opening title music is by legendary artist David Bowie.

ABOUT THE LAST PANTHERS

THE LAST PANTHERS opens with a daring diamond heist bearing all the hallmarks of a gang known as the Pink Panthers. But the tragic death of a little girl during the raid sets a collision course in motion involving a British insurance agent, a French-Algerian cop and a Serbian diamond thief. THE LAST PANTHERS plunges the audience into a modern day Europe gripped by new forms of crime on an epic scale. The interplay between traffickers in jewels and drugs, European officials, war criminals and city bankers impact every one of us in ways we cannot foresee.