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Dramacorp sets crime romance in Cannes

MIPTV: Beta Film’s Swedish prodco Dramacorp is developing a new drama set in the south of France, with British writer Chris Murray attached as its co-creator.

Chris Murray

The Cannes Confidential (10×45’) is described as a romantic procedural mixing comedy, mystery and crime detection with a love story.

It will also be the first English-language procedural drama to be produced and set on the Cote d’Azur since 1970s series The Persuaders, starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis.

Executive producers of the series are Dramacorp founder Patrick Nebout and Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, who crossed over recently from prodco Nice Drama.

Together, the pair are responsible for dramas like Thicker Than Water, Midnight Sun and blockbuster comedy movie The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window & Disappeared.

Murray was recently attached to the reboot of UK detective series Van Der Valk, which starts filming soon in Amsterdam. Before that he was a regular writer on Sky comedy-drama Agatha Raisin from Acorn and created the BBC’s daytime drama Doctors, now in its 19th season.

Nebout said the series had “echoes of the iconic, great Moonlighting in terms of its wit and charm, The Night Manager in terms of its scale and ambition and La La Land in terms of its look and tone. We’re looking forward to delivering something extremely special and distinctively upbeat, far from the tons of very dark shows that seem to have taken over the international market.”

The producers have been granted exclusive access to film in the city of Cannes, as well as use the trademark-protected ‘Cannes’ name.

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