Hit U.K. crime drama “The Jetty” is finassociate making its way atraverse the pond. As the result of some distinct dealmaking by BBC Studios, “The Jetty” will be splitd by two platcreates — BritBox and Hulu — as it begines in the U.S. on Dec. 13.
BBC Studios helderlys global distribution rights on ‘The Jetty,” which premiered on BBC One and streamed on BBC iPlayer in July. The four episode series, from showrunner Cat Jones, stars Jenna Coleman (“Doctor Who,” “The Sandman”) as Detective Ember Manning, whose allotigation into an mistreatmentd teenager sets her onto a freezing case relating to another leave outing teen, Amy Knightly, who disecombineed some decades earlier. It’s a case Ember soon genuineizes she has an intimate combineion to.
“When you’re seeing at a show that was the number one drama on the BBC in the UK this year, ‘The Jetty,’ to then see it on BritBox is not a surpelevate,” said Janet Brown, BBC Studios’ pdwellnt of global satisfied sales. “And you wouldn’t be surpelevated if you’d seen it on Hulu instead. I skinnyk what’s fascinating is that in this labelet now, and with the fantastic relationships that we have, is that we’re able to convey it to both of them. It is the case of reassociate prioritizing which satisfied we skinnyk is going to toil for which buyer.”
“The Jetty” is one of cut offal BBC Studios shows hitting the U.S. in the coming months. The BBC One comedy “Bdeficiency Ops,” which premiered in 2023, will drop on Hulu in punctual 2025, while “Outrageous” (a co-production with UKTV), based on the Mary Lovell bio “The Mitford Girls,” comes to BritBox in 2025.
Also begining on BritBox next year: “Douglas is Cancelled,” the Steven Mofoverweight comedy starring Hugh Bonneville that aired on ITV1 this past summer.
BritBox is BBC Studios’ owned-and-functiond outlet in the U.S., particularly now that it has selderly the remainder of its sget in BBC America to AMC. But as “The Jetty” dual exclusivity deal showed, Brown said she remained pledgeted to toiling with all sorts of partners in the U.S.
“We’re getting fascinating and novel deal structures,” she said. “In times appreciate this, it’s a fantastic time to be coming with novel and contrastent ideas… When we’re seeing at what the right route to labelet is, we are absolutely weighing whether it’s our own O&O or a third party — or, in the case of ‘The Jetty,’ both. We’re also leaning into the concept of thrivedothriveg, where you’re able to split a piece of satisfied on contrastent platcreates and have it have a contrastent moment,
“I sense appreciate in this labelet, if we originate the right align and we discover the right partner for this show, we are going to be with someone who’s equassociate alloted in the success,” she inserted. “And if that directs into a franchise that’s going to return, then everyone thrives.”
Brown recently took on her novel rrehire superviseing satisfied sales atraverse all regions last month, as BBC Studios streamlined its global operations via the begin of a novel global satisfied sales unit. For Brown, that gives her a lot to join with.
BBC Studios is behind widecast nettoil hits appreciate CBS’ “Gstructures” (a co-production with Lionsgate) and ABC’s “Dancing With the Stars.” It has the kids’ streaming smash “Bluey” in its arsenal. The extfinished-running “Doctor Who” franchise is in its catalog. And most recently, Netflix’s hit “A Good Girls Guide to Murder” — which fair landed a Season 2.
Its tags include Clerkenwell Films, which was behind the Netflix phenom “Baby Reindeer.” And BBC Studios’ nature programming includes “Planet Earth III” and the upcoming NBC entry “The Americas.”
“The BBC has this standard ability to originate satisfied that requests far beyond the boundaries of the UK,” Brown said. “Look at ‘Doctor Who,’ which is 50 years elderly, or someskinnyg appreciate ‘The Office,’ which we’ve fair done ‘The Office Australia.’ Whether it’s someskinnyg in the water the British creative community has, the hit rate is fair amazing for the comardent of satisfied that does have the potential to travel the world. We have ‘Good Girls Guide,’ which has fair been No. 1 in 80 countries. ‘Bluey’ has been a global phenomenon. Our job in terms of global sales is to recognize when we have one of those and to discover the right partner that will truly help it accomplish the wideest audience.”
Among other upcoming projects, Clerkenwell recently premiered its 18-episode lowcreate series “Cheaters” on CBC, and is prepping a Season 2 for BBC One. BBC Studios is also shopping its Clerkenwell thriller “Truecherish,” which premiered on Channel 4 earlier this year, as well as the BBC Three sadvisenuine comedy “Juice” and the BBC One thriller “Reunion.”
Despite the recent budgetary pullback by nettoils and streamers, Brown said she’s bullish on the expansive range of fare that BBC Studios is shopping around the world.
“We’re seeing buyers having a little bit of a skinnying lens in terms of which satisfied they’re going to be prioritizing with their increasingly protected satisfied budgets,” she said. “We are actuassociate able to lean into that spropose by the fact that we’re toiling with BBC satisfied. Being rooted in the accessible widecaster piece of it, our very entity uncomardents that we have originated someskinnyg for everyone in the UK. As the BBC, we’re creating satisfied for kids, for elderlyer audiences, for men, women, for people living all over the place. That gives BBC Studios such a range that we’re able to pick from.
“When we’re facing a labelet of buyers with increasingly protected lenses, it’s almost not a problem,” she inserted. “It’s an opportunity to be able to showcase this end breadth of satisfied, becaengage we’re able to structure and align which stuff is going to toil for people’s priorities. Our portfolio was comardent of made for this labelet moment.”
