{"id":11604,"date":"2021-04-12T12:43:17","date_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/?p=11604"},"modified":"2021-04-12T12:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-04-12T10:43:20","slug":"m-net-boards-goalpost-pictures-and-quizzicals-detective-cooper-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/blog\/2021\/04\/12\/m-net-boards-goalpost-pictures-and-quizzicals-detective-cooper-series\/","title":{"rendered":"M-Net Boards Goalpost Pictures And Quizzical’s Detective Cooper Series"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Australia\u2019s Goalpost Pictures and South Africa\u2019s Quizzical Pictures are set to co-produce the series Detective Cooper for South African broadcaster M-Net. The series will be adapted from the multi-award-winning Detective Emmanuel Cooper book \u201cA Beautiful Place to Die\u201d by Australian \/ South African writer Malla Nunn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goalpost Pictures are the producers of the worldwide hit The Invisible Man and the acclaimed television series Cleverman, while Quizzical Pictures are producers of the Peabody Award-winning Intersexions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The story centres on a white detective in apartheid-era South Africa with a dangerous secret: he is in fact mixed race. Malla Nunn, whose latest novel recently won the LA Book Prize for YA Literature, is story editor on the production.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

LA-based British\/Australian writer James McNamara, who was twice named \u2018international rising star\u2019 by BAFTA LA, is creating the series for television, in partnershipwith South African Writer Amy Jephta (Ellen, The Ellen Pakkies Story, Trackers, Barakat). Sarah Christie is development producer for Goalpost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cM-Net is excited to partner with Quizzical and Goalpost Pictures on the production of Detective Cooper. Set against the volatile backdrop of the fifties in South Africa, Sergeant Emmanuel Cooper faces multi-layered challenges as he, alongside colleagues Constable Shabalala and Doctor Zweigman, solves mysterious crimes. We knew we wanted to be part of this gripping world Nunn created which is so authentically intriguing and suspenseful; it aligns perfectly with our strategic vision to be Africa\u2019s most loved storyteller,\u201d says Nkateko Mabaso, M-Net Group Executive: Programming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Goalpost\u2019s Kylie du Fresne adds: \u201cThis is a show that calls for passionate South African partners and Goalpost couldn\u2019t be happier to be joining with Quizzical and M-Net to adapt these terrific novels for television. The morally ambiguous characters and drama driven by murder, passion and corruption \u2013 set against a fractured, racially divided nation \u2013 will make for compelling viewing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Quizzical\u2019s Nimrod Geva, who will Executive Produce with Goalpost\u2019s Kylie du Fresne and Rosemary Blight, said: “Quizzical Pictures is thrilled to be joining such great collaborators on telling a powerful, engrossing story with surprising relevance to our own time. Audiences will immediately be pulled into the fascinating contradictions of apartheid-era South Africa: from secret identities at smoky jazz clubs to Nazi ties and sexual deviance in deceptively quaint towns.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The series is being developed with the generous support of Screen Australia. No Australian broadcaster has yet been appointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Australia\u2019s Goalpost Pictures and South Africa\u2019s Quizzical Pictures are set to co-produce the series Detective Cooper for South African broadcaster M-Net. The series will be adapted from the multi-award-winning Detective Emmanuel Cooper book \u201cA Beautiful Place to Die\u201d by Australian \/ South African writer Malla Nunn. Goalpost Pictures are the producers of the worldwide hit… Continue reading M-Net Boards Goalpost Pictures And Quizzical’s Detective Cooper Series<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[21],"class_list":["post-11604","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-mnet","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11604"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11604\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11604"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11604"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.samdb.co.za\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11604"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}