EXCLUSIVE: Peter Chernin’s North Road Company is returning to the Israeli TV market with a medical thriller starring Tehran‘s Niv Sultan.
North Road has re-teamed with Israeli producer Sipur and local network Hot – its partners on juvenile prison series Bad Boy – for Heart of a Killer, the outfit’s second international co-pro.
Endemol Shine Israel is also producing. Now in principal photography, Heart of a Killer follows Dr. Dasi Nakash, played by Sultan, a promising transplant surgeon who turns to illicit organ harvesting after a desperate act to save a friend wronged by the hospital.
This incident draws her into a whirlwind of moral dilemmas, patient rescues and conflicts with the underworld of the medical establishment.
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