On November 11, 2016, a major television channel and producer in Japan signed an agreement with the distributer of the television series The Sniffer – WTW Films Limited – to purchase the rights for an adaptation of the program.
The Sniffer is an original Ukrainian series, which premiered in 2013. The program went to the top of the ratings both in Ukraine and Russia. The show claimed a 30% audience share on Russia’s Channel One after it was aired in December 2016, and received the highest ratings on Russian television in the last five years.
Rights to broadcast the original version of the series have so far been sold in more than 60 countries all over the world.
“It's a great honor for us that such a large and globally recognized company has shown an interest in our series,” said Victor Mirsky, General Producer at WTW Films Limited. “This is a significant moment for the entire Ukrainian television industry.We genuinely believe The Sniffer will be a success in Japan.”
In August 2016, WTW Films Limited concluded an agreement for the rights to publish books and games based on The Sniffer in Japan.
Synopsis: They call him The Sniffer. He's the proud owner of an extraordinarily acute sense of smell. He can detect things about you that you desperately want to conceal. He'll find that needle in the haystack. Don't ever doubt his extraordinary skills! But the truth is that his sense of smell is as much a curse as it is a gift. This guy can solve a mystery by having a single sniff around but what happens when all these myriads of smells force their way into his private life? Let’s just put it this way – he’s not exactly a happy camper.
