‘Reyka’ Producer Quizzical Pictures Sets Crime Series ‘Murder by the Sea’ From ‘White Lies’ Writer Darrel Bristow-Bovey (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comNaman Ramachandran South Africa‘s Quizzical Pictures has commissioned eight-part crime series “Murder By The Sea.” The series is set in Blaasgat, a fictional coastal town named after its giant blowhole.
When Lennart Cato, a local man-made-good, is found dead inside a papier-mâché whale on the opening night of a new Whale Museum that he’s funding, the locals turn to town resident and retired old-school thespian Lawrence Mantooth for answers.
Once famous for his 80s TV show, where he played detective Pericles van Breda, Lawrence has found that few locals see the line between actor and character and often call on him to help with their little mysteries.
Now, with this crime on their doorstep, he’s viewed as the obvious person to find out whodunnit? However, the real detective in Blaasgat is the woman behind the man – Lawrence’s keenly observant wife, Dawn Mantooth-Solomon. “Murder By The Sea” is currently in development and being scripted by writer Darrel Bristow-Bovey, who also serves as executive producer on the series, based on an original idea from Bristow-Bovey and Joanna Simon.
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