Amazon Prime Video and Germany’s ARD Acquire Cape Town-Set Dramedy ‘The Morning After’ (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comChristopher Vourlias Amazon Prime Video and German broadcaster ARD have acquired the distribution rights to “The Morning After,” an eight-part dramedy series starring rising British actress Amara Okereke (“In the Lost Lands,” “Red Rose”), with principal photography now underway in Cape Town.
Created by Thierry Cassuto and Karen Jeynes (“Recipes for Love and Murder,” “Puppet Nation”) and set in Cape Town, the show stars Okereke as a young, aspiring singer from the U.K.
who gets adopted by a group of local young misfits after she washes up one morning 6,000 miles from home, alone and naked on a Cape Town beach, with all of her things missing and a story that’s clearly got a few holes.
The series will premiere in sub-Saharan Africa on Prime Video and in Germany on ARD’s SVOD service Mediatek, with international sales handled by Paradoxal. “The Morning After” is produced by Paris-based Paradoxal and Cape Town-based Both Worlds Pictures, with the support of the South African Department of Trade, Industry and Competition (DTIC), and in association with German broadcaster SWR through its FabFiction co-production initiative.
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