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| WHITE LIES (SUNDANCE NOW)
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DEVELOPMENT
HISTORY:
5/20/24
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STATUS:
currently in development (2024-2025 season) |
DEVELOPMENT STAGE:
ordered to series |
ADDITIONAL NOTES:
eight episodes |
DESCRIPTION:
(from Fremantle's press release, May 2024) Sundance Now, AMC Networks' streamer, announced today the gripping crime thriller White Lies will be coming exclusively to U.S and Canadian audiences. The series is a collaboration with Quizzical Pictures and Pan-African broadcaster M-Net. The 8 x 60' drama stars award-winning actress Natalie Dormer(Penny Dreadful: City of Angels, The Hunger Games: Mocking Jay, Picnic at Hanging Rock) - who is also Executive Producing - and Brendon Daniels (Four Corners, Skemerdans, Trackers). The news follows recent successful launches on STAN (Australia) and on M-Net (South Africa) to huge acclaim. On M-Net (DStv Channel 101) the series grew the Thursday night 8pm slot by an average of 24% and outperformed other international series to be the number-one show on the channel. It garnered critical praise from South African media, with News24 lauding it as "a clear example of the top end of prestige television drama South Africa is capable of making." Written by award-winning scriptwriter Darrel Bristow-Bovey, White Lies is a riveting murder mystery set in the wealthy neighbourhood of Bishopscourt in Cape Town, South Africa. Investigative journalist Edie Hansen (Dormer) gets caught up in the ugly underbelly that lies beneath the picturesque beauty of the city, dragging her back to a turbulent past. Following her estranged brother's murder in his luxury home, Edie's world plunges deeper into chaos when her brother's teenage children become prime suspects for the crime. As Edie investigates, she finds herself at loggerheads with veteran detective Forty Bell (Daniels), and grapples with the crumbling local police force, a corrupt political system, and the secretive world of extreme Cape wealth. |
PRINCIPAL CAST INFORMATION:
· Brendon Daniels as Forty Bell
· Natalie Dormer as Edie Hansen
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CREW INFORMATION:
· Catharine Cooke as DIR
· Christiaan Olwagen as DIR
· Darrel Bristow-Bovey as EP/WRTR
· Harriet Gavshon as PROD
· John Trengove as DIR (Pilot)
· Julie Hodge as EP
· Natalie Dormer as EP
· Nimrod Geva as PROD
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GENRE(S):
· drama
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STUDIO INFORMATION:
· Fremantle
· Quizzical Pictures
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