EXCLUSIVE: AMC streamer Acorn TV has unveiled its second original in the space of a week, boarding the 1970s-set crime drama Cannes Confidential. Penned by Midsomer Murders and Van der Valk writer …
, the Stockholm-based production company founded by Patrick Nebout, part of Jan Mojto’s Beta Film. Maria Ward is co-writing the series. Acorn Media Enterprises is co-producing.as the first English-language procedural drama to be produced and set on the Cote d’Azur since the 1970s action-adventure comedy, starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis. Production will begin in Cannes in early 2021.
Dramacorp COO Nebout added: “Chris Murray has a genius for creating deeply loved and witty characters and stories that run and run. The setting ofis upbeat, colourful and spectacular, the wittiness is there, yet Chris and Maria are developing multi-layered main characters and strong emotional arcs, taking the procedural genre into a more elevated and romantic direction.”
Nebout executive produces alongside Henrik Jansson-Schweizer. The series will premiere on Acorn TV in North America, New Zealand, Australia, and the UK next year.
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