Just as the show's second season is set to debut on this side of the pond on IMDb TV, Alex Rider is getting a second UK home. E4 has secured the UK rights to Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television Alex Rider TV series, with the show's first season set to premiere on the channel on Sunday December 19th at 8pm. Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television have released three first look images and trailer for their upcoming Alex Rider TV series, which is based on Anthony Horowitz’s novels. At present there is no UK broadcaster attached to the project. 
Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television have found their Alex Rider. Otto Farrant (Mrs Wilson, War and Peace) has been cast as the lead in the eight-episode young-adult drama series, which is based on Anthony Horowitz’s Alex Rider novels. 
Das Boot helmer Andreas Prochaska has been tapped to direct Alex Rider, the TV series adaptation of Anthony Horowitz's young adult novel series that is set up at Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television. 
Laurence Fishburne (Black-ish, The Matrix) has come on-board to star and executive produce Rendlesham, the eight episode UFO drama series from UK indie Eleventh Hour Films and Sony Pictures Television. Rendlesham is inspired by the British-American UFO incident which took place at a US air base close to the village of Rendlesham, Suffolk in 1980. Drawing on reported events across dual timelines – from the time of the sightings in 1980, and looking ahead to 2020, the 40th anniversary. 
Sony Pictures Television has acquired a minority stake in Eleventh Hour Films - the UK indie led by Jill Green, Eve Gutierrez, Paula Cuddy and Nicole Finnan which has been behind such productions as Foyle's War, New Blood, Vexed and Safe House. 
