The first winner of MIA Market ‘s Sony Pictures Television Award has been named, as the Rome event winds down this evening in Europe.

The prize, which honors the Best Drama Project from the MIA Drama Coproduction Market & Pitching Forum, has gone to Irish series The Roaring Banshees , produced by Paul Donovan from Deadpan Pictures and written by John Morton and Peter McGann.

Sony Pictures Television Studios President Katherine Pope awarded the prize at a ceremony in Rome this evening after it was selected by jury from the U.S. studio.

Sony said the project, which is a female-led gangster story set in Prohibition-era Chicago, “represents the kind of bold and innovative storytelling that makes for exceptional television,” adding, “Rooted in an often-overlooked chapter of histor

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