Banijay Rights, the global distribution arm of Banijay, announced UK public broadcaster the BBC has pre-bought the second series of landmark historical drama “Marie Antoinette.”
The seven-part series based on Anne Rice’s best-selling novel and produced by Jessica Held and Adam O’Byrne, will become available on BBC Two and BBC iPlayer.
Scheduled to debut on the channel and BBC iPlayer later this summer, the series is set in southern Sweden in the late 1980s and revolves around the real-life disappearance and subsequent murder of a 10-year-old girl.