Global content creation and distribution company ADD Content has signed a scripted format deal with Channel One in Russia for its Israeli drama Sirens (Betulot), which will air this year.

Produced by AMEDIA Production and SREDA Production Company and directed by Sasha Kiriyenko with Alexander Kuznetsov serving as DOP, the Russian version of Sirens will feature a script by Maria Saprykina, Alexander Topuria and Irina Zui Sirens, and production design by Leonid Kipnis. Producers on the show are Leonard Blavatnik, Nelly Yaralova, Alexander Tsekalo while Leva Andrejevaite, Pyotr Fyodorov, Darya Moroz, Merab Ninidze, Vera Voronkova and Mikhail Gorevoy lead the cast.

Originally created by Shahar Magen and Adam Sanderson and produced by July August for Hot 3 in Israel where a third season is set to debut shortly, Sirens has proved a hit outside its domestic territory with the original series airing on Globosat in Brazil and Altice in France through deals negotiated by international distributor ADD Content.

Sirens (Betulot) is a mystery thriller telling the story of a policewoman from Eilat investigating the murder of her younger sister. In the Russian adaptation the action takes place in Tuapse – one of the biggest resorts on the Black Sea where the local policewoman Larisa Nazarova finds the dead body of her twin sister drowned in the lake Abrau.