Dope

Logline: A new breed of performance enhancing drugs appear on the market. The most potent and undetectable dope to date is planned to be tested on Hungarian sportspeople. A race begins between criminals who want to get their hands on the drug and investigators who try to stop it from spreading, while human lives and the whole sports life of a country are heading for a fall.

Synopsis: Shoot up. Win.

In a world where only victory counts all means are justified. Winning is everything. Silver is the losers’ colour.

By today the world of sports has been thoroughly infected by the disease called doping. All anti-doping agencies fight an uphill battle against illegal performance enhancing and its increasingly sophisticated methods. The sport competitions of the future are won or lost in laboratories.

Dope is a high concept television series with a subject matter that could not be timelier. As the 2008 Olympic Games are approaching the brave new world of sport is in the headlines more often than ever before. Tense, shocking and moving, relentless and inspiring – just like the world of sport.

Dope is the European television concept for the 21st century. In order to compete with America’s best in television, Europe is yet to come up with a truly unique TV series. As a sort of Traffic meets 24, Dope presents finely depicted, incredibly human characters from smugglers that move the drugs from country to country through engineers designing them and of course sportspeople, diplomats, politicians and anti-doping agents all affected by this deadly virus called doping. Its intricate plotting and relentless pacing elevate it to the quality of the best in today’s television all around the world.

It’s universal and pan-European. From Moscow to Budapest, through Brussels and Berlin we follow a desperate agent trying to track down the latest performance enhancing superdrug, Artistherone. We watch her fall in love with a celebrated boxing champion who serves as subject of the human experiments for the dope and as she is seduced by a ruthlessly ambitious sports diplomat who later turns out to be head of a mysterious organization intent on making the drug widespread in Europe. We witness lives destroyed and people getting insanely rich all in the name of profit.

Dope is a dark, mean yet enormously entertaining show where there are no black and white characters, only shades of grey. Everyone has an agenda. All the richly textured characters are moved by deeply human emotions like ambition, dreams, love or simply the hunger for money.

It’s terrifying and involving. A show that will revolutionize series television in Europe, an instant classic that will hold viewers captive throughout the world for many seasons, through long years.

Plot keywords: diplomacy , swimming , boxing , doping , sports