It's a Sin creator Russell T. Davies will receive this year's Excellence Award for lifetime achievement at the CanneSeries television festival.
Davies' latest small-screen drama, a chronicle of friends living in London in the 1980s during the rise of AIDS, has been a critical hit on Britain's Channel 4 and on HBO Max in the U.S..
The limited series, co-starring Olly Alexander, Lydia West, Callum Scott Howells, Nathaniel Curtis, Omari Douglas, and Neil Patrick Harris, will premiere in France on Canal+ on March 22.
Davies will receive his CanneSeries excellence award on March 23 in an online-event hosted by Canal+ and French online media site Konbini.
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