BritBox International Signs Sanjeev Bhaskar For Drama Series ‘Inspector Singh Investigates’, Acquires Richard Harris And Peter O’Toole Docs
07.11.2022 - 11:51
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EXCLUSIVE: BritBox International has tapped Sanjeev Bhaskar as the lead for its latest original drama series, Inspector Singh Investigates, and has picked up docs about legendary acting mavericks Richard Harris and Peter O’Toole.
Inspector Singh Investigates is a three-part drama that BritBox International has co-commissioned alongside UK distributor DCD Rights and 108 Media. BritBox International, which operates outside the UK, takes North American and Australian rights, we’ve learned.
108 Media London, the UK production wing of international content firm 108 Media is producing the series, which will be shot in Malaysia. DCD Rights is selling it internationally (excluding North America and Australia).
The crime drama is based on the novel of the same name from author Shamini Flint, following Bhaskar as the titular Inspector Singh as he investigates complex murders rooted in the cultural DNA of exotic Asian countries.
Diederick Santer and Jonathan Karas are executive producers for BritBox International, the SVoD service that British broadcasters ITV and The BBC jointly own.
In an interview with me on Friday at Portugal, BritBox International CEO Reemah Sakaan told Deadline the series would soon sit alongside up and coming originals such Stonehouse, starring Succession’s Matthew Macfadyen and Bodyguard’s Keeley Hawes, and Archie, the Cary Grant biopic that’s currently in production near Malaga, Spain, with Jason Isaacs playing the late Bristol-born leading man.
Deadline has also learned that BritBox International has acquired North American rights to a pair of docs from Abacus Media Rights, which will be badged as BritBox Originals in the U.S. and Canada.
The Ghost of Richard Harris is a feature-length doc from Bright