Patrick Frater Asia Bureau ChiefIndian streaming platform Zee5 and producer Big Synergy Media have struck a deal with NENT Studios U.K.
to produce two seasons of “Black Widows.”The show was originally a Finnish dark comedy-drama of the same title, in which three best friends try to kill their husbands.
But one of the men survive and seeks revenge on the deadly female trio. It was created by Roope Lehtinen and Mikko Polla (now of Fire Monkey, previously Moskito) for Finnish broadcaster Nelonen, and has since been sold by NENT as a scripted format.The Indian version will be the eighth international remake of the show, following earlier versions in Ukraine, Estonia, Lithuania, the Middle East, Mexico, Scandinavia and the Czech Republic.
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