BBC Two has picked up the UK broadcast rights to The Looming Tower, a 10-episode drama about 9/11 that was originally produced by Hulu in the USA. Here’s everything you need to know…

The show is based on Lawrence Wright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda And The Road To 9/11. Dan Futterman is the showrunner of the series, which stars Jeff Daniels, Tahar Rahim, Wrenn Schmidt, Bill Camp, Louis Cancelmi, Virginia Kull, Ella Rae Peck, Sullivan Jones, Michael Stuhlbarg and Peter Sarsgaard.

The official synopsis offers this summary of the show:

“The Looming Tower traces the rising threat of Osama Bin Laden and Al-Qaeda in the late 1990s and how the rivalry between the FBI and CIA during that time may have inadvertently set the path for the tragedy of 9/11. The series follows members of the I-49 Squad in New York and Alec Station in Washington, D.C., the counter-terrorism divisions of the FBI and CIA, respectively, as they travel the world fighting for ownership of information while seemingly working toward the same goal – trying to prevent an imminent attack on U.S. soil.”

Here’s The Looming Tower trailer from Hulu…

The show was already shown in the UK on Amazon Prime Video, but this will mark its first televised broadcast in Britain. BBC Two hasn’t announced its premiere date just yet, but we’ll keep you posted.