MIPCOM: Hulu Takes 'Baghdad Central' for U.S.

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The six-part drama from 'House of Saddam' writer Stephen Butchard will stream on Hulu next year.

Hulu has made the first big drama deal of this year's Mipcom TV market in Cannes, picking up U.S. rights forThe series is set in October 2003 in U.S.-occupied Iraq following the disbandment of the Iraqi army, the police and civil leadership in the aftermath of the invasion.

But while Muhsin collaborates with the coalition troops, he is also pursuing his own covert and dangerous agenda. Butchard adapted the series from the novel by Elliott Colla.was produced by British shingle Euston Films, a subsidiary of Fremantle, who negotiated the Hulu sale.Hulu appears to have acquired a taste for international series.

 

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