Patience, the British detective series about a young police archivist who tackles crimes, has been sold into more territories.
At the London TV Screenings, Beta Film revealed it had shopped the Channel 4 series to AMC Networks for Latin America, ABC in Australia, and across Africa to BBC Brit. In Europe, RAI acquired the rights to the series for Italy, while ProSiebenSat.1 bought the series for Germany, VRT for Belgium, TET for Latvia, and Telia for Estonia. In Asia, NOW TV in Hong Kong and NHK Japan were buyers, while Ajara TV Georgia snapped it up in Georgia.
In the U.S., the show goes out through PBS.
The show comes from Eagle Eye Drama in association with Beta, with Season 2 scoring highly over 28 days after launching on Channel 4 in January. The second run is again set in the historic city of York, following stars Ella Maisy Purvis as the young police archivist Patience Evans, who is joined by a new team lead, Detective Frankie Monroe (Jessica Hynes), to tackle a series of tricky and twisted crimes.
Shooting on Season 3 is set to begin in Belgium and York this spring. Purvis and Hynes will return alongside Mark Benton, Adrian Rawlins, Tom Lewis, Ali Ariaie and Liza Sadovy. Maarten Moerkerke (Professor T) returns as director and is joined by Jan Matthys (Outlander).
Matt Baker, lead writer on Patience Season 1, returns and joins forces with Amy Shindler and Beth Chalmers, who were the lead writers of Season 2. Jo McGrath and Walter Iuzzolino serve as Executive Producers across all seasons.
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