Shine International and FOX International Channels (FIC) have announced a global deal for The Bridge. The deal grants FIC first-window pay broadcast rights across the group’s international footprint, and enters the entities into a co-financing partnership. As announced earlier this month, The Bridge was picked up to series by FX for a 2013 debut.

The deal was brokered at the script level between Nadine Nohr, CEO of Shine International and FIC’s Global Scripted Programming team. It marks the first international deal for the highly anticipated new drama from Writer/Producers Meredith Stiehm and Elwood Reid.

“The Bridge is set to premiere across FIC’s entertainment channel portfolio of 200 pay-TV networks to audiences in 120 countries in Latin America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa following the series launch on FX in July 2013,”said Hernan Lopez, President & CEO, FIC.

Starring Academy Award®-Nominee Demián Bichir and Diane Kruger, The Bridge is a co-production of Shine America and FX Productions. Set on the border between El Paso and Juarez, The Bridge centres on two detectives, one from the United States and one from Mexico, who must work together to hunt down a serial killer operating on both sides of the U.S.-Mexican border. Executive Producers Meredith Stiehm (Homeland) and novelist and television writer/producer Elwood Reid adapted The Bridge for American television from the international hit series Bron, which was set on the border of Denmark and Sweden.