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BBC's adrenaline-fuelled drama promises to be 'unforgivingly entertaining'
- BBC acquires the eight-episode French wartime drama The Sentinels, based on the Les Sentinelles comics.
- The series blends sci-fi, action and espionage in a story about enhanced soldiers in World War I.
- Gabriel Ferraud is recruited into a top-secret French program creating augmented soldiers.
- The project is produced with CANAL+ and Federation Studio France, among others.
- The series is directed by Thierry Poiraud and Édouard Salier.
- BBC Programme Acquisition Head Nick Lee calls it a 'blend of steampunk meets Robocorp' with depth.
- BBC expects a potential iPlayer and BBC Four release later in the year.
- The narrative centers on an enhanced-soldier unit known as the Sentinels.
- The Sentinels is based on graphic novels Les Sentinelles by Xavier Dorison and Enrique Breccia.
- The project is described as a 'fully immersive war drama, drenched in adrenaline'.
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