EXCLUSIVE: Sky History has sent out a Castles SOS . The UK channel has acquired a new AI-powered doc telling the royalty, ruins and restoration stories behind British castles. Will Hanrahan ’s indie FirstLookTV is making the series for the Hearst Networks EMEA channel. It will be fronted by British presenter Rick Edwards and is now in post.

Sphere Abacus will sell Castles SOS (WT) globally. It will unpack the work to restore castles, as well as the stories of the people that lived in them.

Hanrahan tells Deadline about the starting point for the show: “We asked what we could do to tap into the global thirst for royal stories that was new and different and also gave a sense of historical takeaway.” FirstLookTV decided the way in was looking at castles that are being restored

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