The 10-part series, Telemark, will be produced by the US cable channel FX (also responsible for The Americans, Justified, American Horror Story, and the forthcoming TV adaptation of Fargo), and overseen by Boyle and his writing partner Simon Beaufoy. It will tell the story of the Norwegian saboteurs who, under the auspices of Churchill's covert Special Operations Executive (SOE), successfully infiltrated a heavy water production plant at Vemork, where the Nazis were preparing to manufacture nuclear weapons. Thanks to their efforts, and a sustained Allied bombing campaign, the facility was destroyed in 1943. “This is one of the world’s greatest stories,” Boyle told Variety, “and we want to tell it on an epic scale.”