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Crime Shows Venture Outside the ‘Damaged, Middle-Aged White Detective Slot on a Sunday night,’ argue Berlinale Series Participants

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Marta Balaga Crime shows look for a new angle, argued Berlinale Series participants on Monday. There is no shortage of new offerings, from Berlinale Market Selects’ “Two Sides of the Abyss,” Serbia’s “The Fall” or South Africa’s “Donkerbos,” created by Nico Scheepers, to China’s melancholic, decades-spanning “Why Try to Change Me Now,” with Golden Bear winner Yinan Diao attached as executive producer.

But while there is still an appetite for traditional detective stories, producers and broadcasters are venturing out of the “damaged, middle-aged white detective slot on a Sunday night,” suggested All3Media International’s Rachel Glaister.

They are also thinking about their younger audience. “[‘The Gymnasts’] wasn’t born as a pure crime show. We were also attracted by other themes, including coming-of-age,” said Carlotta Claori of Indigo Film when discussing the series about a tournament in the Italian Alps, gone horribly wrong.

With “The Gymnasts” adding a female detective, absent from Ilaria Bernardini’s source novel, women are also leading in the likes of India’s “Roar” or “Brown,” presented in Berlinale Series and Market Selects respectively. “When I read the character Rita Brown, I just felt it, because she was so different, so diverse – she was flawed, but human, super smart, super intelligent, and you can literally see the growth of this woman,” Bollywood star Karisma Kapoor told Variety about her role.

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