EXCLUSIVE: Cooper & Fry are heading to the U.S. after streamer BritBox snapped up the British crime drama. The present has carried out nicely on Paramount-owned broadcast community 5 within the UK and now has a U.S. house. BritBox has snagged Season 1 of the present for U.S. and Canada, whereas Netflix has taken second window UK rights.
Tailored from Stephen Sales space’s bestselling detective novels, Cooper & Fry follows unlikely detective duo Ben Cooper and Diane Fry, performed by Robert James-Collier (Downton Abbey) and Mandip Gill (Physician Who).
Set in and round England’s picturesque Peak District, the collection follows Cooper, who’s struggling to emerge from the shadow of his late father, whereas Fry is an outsider fleeing tragedies in her previous. Collectively, they sort out grisly crimes within the distant countryside.
The collection lately scored a Season 2 fee from 5, with filming at present underway forward of a 2027 bow. Particularly, the upcoming season will cowl Sales space’s novels The Satan’s Edge, Fall Down Lifeless, One Final Breath and The Homicide Highway.
The present is produced by Mike Benson’s Clapperboard. The prodco is backed by Studio TF1, which sells the collection internationally.
The BritBox and Netflix UK offers come amid a raft of gross sales for Cooper & Fry. Different consumers embrace Australian pubcaster ABC, Discovery in Italy, Disney within the Balkans and Virgin Media in Eire. In Scandinavia and the Benelux it has been acquired by BBC First (Netherlands), VRT (Belgium), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland) and SVT (Sweden). WOWOW has the present for Japan.
“Working with Clapperboard, a Studio TF1 firm, displays our ambition to construct partnerships each inside the Group and past to convey distinctive English-language tales for audiences all over the world,” mentioned Camille Dupeuble, EVP Worldwide TV and Digital Distribution at Studio TF1.
“Its sturdy crime procedural format, constructed round a compelling detective duo, gave it the recipe for a returning collection from the very starting and robust worldwide gross sales.”