History UK has acquired the Canadian wartime drama X Company, a Second World War spy thriller, as part of its World War True season of programming.
Created by Mark Ellis and Stephanie Morgenstern, the team behind Flashpoint, the series is inspired by the real Camp X, a secret Allied training facility on the shores of Lake Ontario where recruits, reportedly including a young Ian Fleming, learned the craft of espionage. It follows five highly skilled young agents from Canada, the United States and Britain who are trained at the camp and then dropped behind enemy lines in occupied Europe.
At the heart of the team is Alfred Graves, played by Jack Laskey, an agent blessed and burdened with a perfect memory, alongside Évelyne Brochu as the multilingual Resistance organiser Aurora Luft and Warren Brown as the hardened Neil Mackay. Their missions of sabotage and intelligence-gathering come with the constant threat of capture, torture and execution.