Bell Media picks up Abrams’ Castle Rock

Canadian broadcast group Bell Media has picked up a forthcoming psychological horror series produced by JJ Abrams and set in a fictional town created by author Stephen King.

Castle Rock (10×60’) was originally commissioned by US streamer Hulu and will now air on Bell’s Space channel as well as its premium Canadian SVoD service CraveTV.

The show adopts characters and themes from some of King’s most iconic novels and is set in the town of Castle Rock in the US state of Maine.

The place has also featured in King’s novels Cujo, The Dark Half, IT and Needful Things. The new TV series stars Andre Holland (Moonlight), Melanie Lynskey (Togetherness) and Bill Skarsgård (IT).

Castle Rock is distributed by Warner Bros and launches on July 25 with a three-episode premiere event starting at 21.00 ET on Space and CraveTV.