TV-companies queuing to show Zelensky series
TV companies from around the world are lining up to buy the right to broadcast the Ukrainian TV-series “Servant of the People” where the country’s president Volodymyr Zelensky played the Ukrainian president before going onto politics and being elected the president also in the real world.
Stockholm-based rights company Eccho Rights says a number of major broadcasters have already agreed on licenses for the series in the past week, including Channel 4 in the UK, MBC in the Middle East, ANT 1 in Greece and PRO TV in Romania.
During the last week, the company has signed agreements with 15 TV-companies, managing partner Nicola Söderlund told website The Local.
”As international distributors of Servant of the People, the series created by and starring President Zelensky, it is Eccho Rights’ position that the best support the global television industry can offer to Ukraine today is to share this story”, the company says in a statement.
”For many years, Eccho Rights has enjoyed wonderful and fruitful relationships with partners in Ukraine and we are devastated by what has unfolded over the past week, with our thoughts going out to our close friends in Kyiv who find themselves under vicious attack.”
”The series is a comedy but also an important document of where Zelenskiy comes from. His fictional president is a normal man, who grows into his role as a heroic and adored leader. While the real-world scenario facing Zelenskiy and the Ukrainian people is far more grim and appalling than the comedy of the series, there are obvious parallels with the real world situation, and Servant of the People is a fascinating, important and historic piece of television.”
The company is pledging a donation of €50 000 to the Ukrainian Red Cross and has removed all Russian-owned and produced series from its catalogue.
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