Fox International Channels (FIC) is adapting an Israeli scripted drama Shufim (False Flag) for a global roll-out, which will see the new TV drama be broadcast in South Africa and Africa very soon after episodes are shown internationally as part of the same global strategy FIC now uses globally, with The Walking Dead and Da Vinci's Demons seen on FOX in South Africa and The Bridge on FOX Crime.
Shufim, written by Peter Landesman, revolves around someone killed in a hotel room, and the hotel personnel doing the sleuthing to put together surveillance footage and passport photos to eventually implicate 26 international hotel guests and giving it to the global news media.
The drama will be based - just like Homeland was an adaptation - on an Israeli series which is shown on Keshet channel 2 in Israel.
In the adaptation, 8 apparently ordinary citizens of the United States wake up to see their faces and private lives broadcast across the internet and television news around the world as suspects in a brazen and dangerous crime.
What seems at first like a horrible case of mistaken identity, then turns into a psycho-espionage thriller.
"Our partnership with Keshet and Peter Landesman, who both have strong track records for telling compelling stories, is an exciting addition to our original development slate," says Sharon Tal Yguado, the executive vice president for original development and scripted programming at FIC in a statement.
"Peter with his background in investigative journalism understands the complexity of the story and has come up with a version that will connect deeply with audiences both in the United States and globally."
