ITV Thriller ‘Red Eye’ Starring Jing Lusi & Richard Armitage Sells To 120 Territories & Sony Says U.S. Deal Is Close

Max Goldbart
·2 min read

ITV plane thriller Red Eye starring Jing Lusi and Richard Armitage has now sold to 120 territories, seller Sony Pictures Television (SPT) has said.

The show, which aired earlier this year, is told over an adrenaline-filled six episodes on an all-night flight from London to Beijing, with shades of Apple TV+’s Idris Elba-starring breakout Hijack.

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Buyers include Paramount + for Canada, Netflix for Germany and HBO Max linear in the CEE region. The series also airs on AXN Asia (across Southeast Asia), TVING (Korea), Stan (Australia), and Warner Bros. Discovery (New Zealand), as well as throughout the Middle East on BeIN, and on MNET’s SHOWMAX across Sub-Saharan Africa.

A deal across the U.S., along with Latin America and other European sales are set to be unveiled soon, SPT said.

Red Eye is produced by Doctor Who maker Bad Wolf and stars the Crazy Rich Asians and Fool me Once actors Lusi and Armitage, along with the likes of Lesley Sharp and Jemma Moore.

Mike Wald, Executive Vice President, International Distribution and Networks, Sony Pictures Television, said: “The global response to Red Eye speaks to the high demand for compelling storytelling with broad appeal.  This series absolutely delivers on exactly what audiences around the world are seeking– thrilling and fun television.”

This morning, Sony Pictures Entertainment posted first quarter operating income down 36% year-on-year on a U.S. dollar basis.

Red Eye was created and written by screenwriter Peter A Dowling (Black and Blue, Flightplan). Directed by Kieron Hawkes (Fortitude and Power Book IV), it was EP’d by Julie Gardner (I Hate Suzie, Doctor Who), Lachlan MacKinnon (Industry, A Discovery of Witches) and Dowling, with Kristian Dench (The Capture, Strike Back) as producer and Jingan Young writing episode four.

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