Debriefing The President, the series based on John Nixon’s revealing book of the same name, has sold to a raft of territories.
The limited series stars Joel Kinnaman as CIA analyst Nixon, who became the first American to positively identify and interrogate Saddam Hussein in the wake of the ill-fated invasion of Iraq.
The series has been acquired by Canadian streamer Crave. It has also struck a chord in Scandinavia; NRK has snagged rights for Norway, SVT for Sweden, YLE for Finland and DR for Denmark, marking a quartet of deals with major pubcasters.
Deadline revealed earlier this year that the drama will play on TNT in the U.S. It is made by AR Content and StoryFirst. Academy Award nominated Alexander Rodnyansky (Leviathan) and Leslie Greif (Hatfields & McCoys) are producers, along with Stuart Manashil, Michael Kupisk, Peter Gerwe, Shelley Browning and the show’s star, Kinnaman.
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