Universal Channel has acquired the UK rights to Sleepy Hollow, Fox’s supernatural drama, with the series due to air later this year.
A modern reworking of Washington Irving’s story from the team of Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci, the show stars Tom Mison as Ichabod Crane, a soldier who died in the Revolutionary War and wakes up, more than two centuries later, in present-day Sleepy Hollow, New York. Nicole Beharie plays Lieutenant Abbie Mills, the local police officer who reluctantly teams up with him when strange killings start to mount.
The pair quickly work out that the Headless Horseman, whom Crane beheaded in 1781, has returned as one of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, and that it falls to them to unpick a centuries-old web of history and prophecy to stop the end of the world.