Starz has acquired Rebecca Corridor-starring BBC collection The Listeners.
Produced by Regular Folks maker Ingredient Footage, directed by Janicza Bravo and tailored from the Jordan Tannahill novel, The Listeners follows an English instructor referred to as Claire (Corridor) who begins to listen to a low buzzing sound that nobody else round her can hear. This seemingly innocuous noise step by step upsets the steadiness of her life, rising rigidity between herself and her husband, Paul (Prasanna Puwanarajah), and daughter, Ashley (Mia Tharia). When she discovers {that a} scholar of hers, Kyle (Ollie West), may hear the sound, the 2 strike up an unlikely and intimate friendship.
Talking to Deadline earlier than it premiered at TIFF and launched on the BBC, Corridor delved deep into how she acquired into character and defined why The Listeners is a four-hour film.
The Listeners aired on the BBC greater than a yr in the past and the Starz deal will likely be a boon for these looking for proof that American patrons nonetheless need to preserve their companies populated with British content material. The BBC and Starz have partnered prior to now on dramas like The Lacking and Dublin Murders. Fremantle handles world gross sales and the deal was brokered by Fremantle’s EVP of Distribution, North America, Lisa Honig, and Lorenzo De Maio of De Maio Leisure.
“The Listeners pulls viewers in from the beginning with its distinctive thriller whereas scary questions on how society treats and believes ladies’s experiences,” stated Alison Hoffman, President of Starz Networks. “We’re proud to deliver this critically acclaimed mission to the U.S. and develop our suite of premium programming for girls with this riveting psychological thriller.”
