Sinbad the Sailor coming to Malta

Sky1 is has commissioned a multimillion-pound remake of Sinbad the Sailor, to be produced by Impossible Pictures and filmed in Malta.

The Guardian reported today that the commission is one of a slate of new shows unveiled today by the Sky1 director of programmes, Stuart Murphy, who is keen to shed a reputation for relying on foreign imports and "shifting the budget around to put terrestrial levels of spend behind our commissioned shows".

Sinbad, which will start photography in Malta in February, is a 13-part series that features a 21-year-old Sinbad fleeing from his home in Basra, Iraq.