Servant of the People Goes to France, Greece and Korea

Ukrainian comedy series Servant of the People has been sold as a format to Greece. Moreover, the format was also optioned to France. This was announced by Natalya Yakovleva, sales director of Studio Kvartal 95, at FORMAT SHOW international conference which took place on September 18 during KYIV MEDIA WEEK international media forum.

Just a reminder: international distribution for Servant of the Peopleis provided by Eccho Rights (with head office in Sweden). Kvartal 95 press service has clarified that the format of the series was acquired by Star Channel (Greece), and the optioned by Elephant Story (France), which is a part of Elephant le Group.

The series will also travel as a ready-made product to South Korea where it will be broadcast on HQ Plus this November. It is rather telling that the Ukrainian comedy will become the first international content for this TV channel.

Servant of the People, with its second season starting on October 23 on 1+1 TV channel, has enjoyed significant popularity among Ukrainian audience and was continued in 2016 as a feature film entitled Servant of the People 2. The first season of the series has become available for international audience on Netflix platform this year.

The protagonist of the series is Vasyl who works as a teacher in a regular Ukrainian school. However, he’s much too eager to leave his trace in history and, unlike most citizens, ready for decisive action.  What pains him most is seeing how corruption and impunity reign over the country year in, year out. To change the future, Vasyl decides to run for president.