#SmallScreenScenes #CannesConfidential @AcornTV (Acorn TV Original) Highly Recommended by Whom You Know New Series Premieres Monday, June 26, 2023 @ImJamieBamber
Highly Recommended by Whom You Know, New Series Premieres Monday, June 26
Set in the Cote d’Azur, Cannes Confidential is a blue-sky, romantic crime series starring French TV-drama actor Lucie Lucas (Clem, Porto and Gloria), Jamie Bamber (Strike Back, Marcella, Battlestar Galactica), and singer/actor Tamara Marthe (Profilage). It's in the English language.
The series centers on the relationship between an idealistic, local underdog female cop (Lucas) and an ex-conman (Bamber). The pair are forced into an unlikely — and surprisingly successful — crime-fighting partnership, which sees them solve a murder case in each close-ended episode.
However, the drama’s arc focuses on the main character’s quest to find the criminals who framed her father, a local-hero police officer who was jailed for a crime he did not commit.
Ever since we told you about Downton Abbey during its second season way before anyone in the USA was onto it, we have been on the lookout for more success stories from Europe and this is a great one.
Jamie Bamber excels in particular with his delivery and intonation and obviously his English. In fact, the only thing missing here is Peachy Deegan who would like to hear back from casting! And P.S. she did study French.
CANNES CONFIDENTIAL IS HIGHLY RECOMMENDED BY WHOM YOU KNOW! PUT IT ON YOUR PRIORITY LIST A MONTH FROM NOW!
Crime Drama Series
*Worldwide Rights*
Season 1 | 6x60 (2023)
Platform | Acorn TV
Created By | Chris Murray (Midsomer Murders)
Cast | Lucie Lucas (Clem, Porto), Jamie Bamber (Battlestar Galactica)
Filming in early 2021, the 8-part Acorn TV series CANNES CONFIDENTIAL will feature unprecedented access to iconic Cote d’Azur city
Co-created and written by Chris Murray (Agatha Raisin, Midsomer Murders)
Following this week’s announcement on its commissioning of Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, Series 2, AMC Networks’ Acorn TV is excited to announce the commissioning of new romantic procedural Cannes Confidential with Acorn Media Enterprises from Dramacorp. Marking the first English-language procedural drama to be produced and set on the Cote d’Azur since the 1970s, the 8-part romantic procedural will blend comedy, mystery and crime detection with a love story. The Acorn TV Original Series is casting now. Production will begin in early 2021 and film across the renowned city. The series will exclusively premiere on Acorn TV in North America, New Zealand, Australia, and United Kingdom in late 2021.
The co-creator and lead writer for the series is popular UK writer Chris Murray, a frequent writer for Acorn TV’s British mystery series Agatha Raisin starring Ashley Jensen, and writer for Van der Valk, Casualty, Midsomer Murders, and creator of BBC’s Doctors. Maria Ward (Agatha Raisin) will co-write the series. Producer Dramacorp is the Stockholm-based production company founded by Patrick Nebout, part of Jan Mojto’s Beta Film. Acorn Media Enterprises is Acorn TV’s commissioning and co-producing development division.
Cannes Confidential centres on the relationship between an idealistic, local underdog female cop and an ex-conman and master of counterfeit, who’s on the run from both the police and the mob. The pair are forced into an unlikely — and surprisingly successful — crime-fighting partnership, which sees them solve a murder case in each close-ended episode. However, the drama’s long arc focuses on the main character’s quest to find the criminals who framed her father, a local-hero police officer who was jailed for a murder he didn’t commit.
The series will be the first English-language procedural drama to be produced and set on the Cote d’Azur since the classic 1970s action-adventure comedy The Persuaders, starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis, and will have exclusive access to film across the City of Cannes, which enables the series to use the trademark-protected name ‘Cannes’ in the show title. Cannes Confidential will also introduce viewers to a rarely seen view of Cannes beyond the yachts and superstars to its fishing boats, local tradesmen and working-class characters. These two worlds and two versions of reality will meet and be reflected in the personalities of the two main characters.
Catherine Mackin, Managing Director, Acorn Media Enterprises, noted, “Acorn Media Enterprises is thrilled to commission this highly entertaining new procedural from prolific UK writer Chris Murray and Dramacorp. With its engaging, blue sky script and beautiful setting, Cannes Confidential is the kind of program the world could use right now and is sure to entertain Acorn TV subscribers worldwide.”
Patrick Nebout, CCO and executive producer of Dramacorp, said: “We are excited to have AMC’s Acorn TV board Cannes Confidential. There’s truly a shared vision of the show with Catherine and her team. As his credits prove, head writer Chris Murray has a genius for creating deeply loved and witty characters and stories that run and run. The setting of Cannes Confidential is upbeat, colourful and spectacular, the wittiness is there, yet Chris and Maria are developing multi-layered main characters and strong emotional arcs, taking the procedural genre into a more elevated and romantic direction. And then there’s that other star of the show — Cannes — which will bring its own magic and nostalgic touch to our story. We’re looking forward to delivering something unique and distinctively romantic, far from the tons of very dark shows that have taken over the international market.”
Executive producers are Patrick Nebout and Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, who recently joined Dramacorp from Nice Drama. The pair are behind a number of TV-hits, among which the series Thicker Than Water, Midnight Sun, and the Swedish blockbuster comedy The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
AMC Networks’ ACORN TV is North America’s largest streaming service specializing in British and international television with over 1 million paid subscribers in the U.S and Canada as well as subscribers worldwide in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America. Acorn TV adds exclusive new programs every week to a deep library of mysteries, dramas, and comedies with no commercials. In 2020, Acorn TV has featured the Irish period mystery series Dead Still, British dramas Deadwater Fell starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo and Gold Digger starring Julia Ormond; as well as several returning favorites with Series 2 of Welsh drama Hidden and Acorn TV’s first feature film with Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears. Acorn TV has the U.S. Premieres of the highly-rated BBC One drama The Nest (Monday, July 13), Swedish drama Rebecka Martinsson, Season 2 (July 27), BBC One sitcom The Other One (Aug. 10), French drama Family Business (Aug. 24), as well as award-winning Australian drama Mystery Road, Series 2 and New Zealand thriller The Sounds this fall. Website: Acorn.TV
ABOUT AMC NETWORKS
Known for its groundbreaking and celebrated original content, AMC Networks is the company behind the award-winning brands AMC, BBC AMERICA, IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv, and IFC Films. Its diverse line-up of popular and critically-acclaimed series and independent films include Killing Eve, Better Call Saul and The Walking Dead, which has been the #1 show on basic cable television for nine consecutive years, as well as Portlandia, Brockmire, Love After Lockup, and the films Boyhood, Death of Stalin, and many more. Its original series Mad Men and Breaking Bad are widely recognized as being among the most influential and acclaimed shows in the history of TV. The Company also operates AMC Studios, its production business; AMC Networks International, its international programming business; the subscription streaming services Shudder, Sundance Now; Acorn TV; and UMC (Urban Movie Channel); and Levity Entertainment Group, the Company’s production services and comedy venues business. For more information, visit HTTP://WWW.AMCNETWORKS.COM.
About Dramacorp
Dramacorp was launched in 2016 by veteran drama producer Patrick Nebout and Jan Mojto, founder of German distribution powerhouse Beta Film, which is a major shareholder in the company. Based in Sweden, the company focuses on the origination, development and executive production of high-concept drama with international appeal. Nebout’s credits include the origination and production of the Canal + and SVT crime thriller series Midnight Sun — the first-ever TV project to be co-produced by French-Swedish partners; the family drama series Thicker Than Water; and the theatrical blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
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Six-Part Detective Series Starring Lucie Lucas, Jamie Bamber and Tamara Marthe Shot on Location in Cannes with Unprecedented Access
Acorn TV, AMC Networks’ acclaimed streamer devoted to British and international television, today released the trailer for its all-new original international romantic crime drama, Cannes Confidential. Shot on location in Cannes and starring French TV-drama actor Lucie Lucas (Clem, Porto and Gloria), Jamie Bamber (Strike Back, Marcella, Battlestar Galactica), and singer/actor Tamara Marthe (Profilage), the six-part series will premiere with the first two episodes on Monday, June 26 on Acorn TV, with two new episodes premiering weekly every Monday through July 10.
Created by Chris Murray (Midsomer Murders, Agatha Raisin), Cannes Confidential is a high-concept detective series centered on the bicker-banter relationship between no-nonsense detective Camille Delmasse (Lucas) and charming international conman Harry King (Bamber). Thrown together solving crimes on the French Riviera, Camille and Harry’s relationship lies at the heart of the show against a luxurious Cannes backdrop. Camille and Harry’s chemistry is complicated by Camille’s colleague and wing-woman, Léa Robert (Marthe), and a deal they make to free Camille’s ex-Chief of Police father from corruption charges.
Set in the Cote d’Azur, Cannes Confidential had unprecedented access to film in the City of Cannes through an exclusive partnership and marks the first English-language procedural drama to be produced and set on the Cote d’Azur since the 1970s, blending comedy, mystery and crime within a love story. The series will introduce viewers to a rarely seen view of Cannes, beyond the yachts and A-listers, with its fishing boats, local tradesmen, and working-class characters. These two worlds and two versions of reality will collide and be reflected in the personalities of the two main characters, Camille and Harry. Cannes Confidential recently made its world premiere at the 6th annual CANNESERIES festival in Cannes.
The series is executive produced by Patrick Nebout (Midnight Sun, Agent Hamilton), Henrik Jansson-Schweizer (Thicker Than Water, Midnight Sun), Catherine Mackin and Bea Tammer of Acorn Media Enterprises (Acorn TV’s commissioning, co-producing, and development division), International Drama Development & Artistic Acquisitions Department of TF1, Lotta Dolk of Viaplay, and produced by Daniel J. Cottin at Isolani Pictures. Camille Delamarre (The Transporters, Assassin Club, Netflix’s Into The Night) directed all six episodes.
Acorn TV holds the exclusive distribution rights to the series in North America, New Zealand, Australia, and United Kingdom. Viaplay holds exclusive distribution rights in the Nordic region. Acorn Media Enterprises and Acorn Media International hold worldwide rights in all other territories.
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EPISODE DESCRIPTIONS
Episode 1 – “Death of a Jester” – Premieres Monday, June 26 on Acorn TV
Cannes detective Camille Delmasse (Lucie Lucas) is trying to solve the murder of a young street artist known as the Jester. During the investigation with her trusted sidekick Lea Robert (Tamara Marthe), Camille keeps running into the charming, but equally shady art collector Harry King (Jamie Bamber). It appears the dead artist had many enemies. Meanwhile, Camille’s father, the respected former Chief of police Philippe Delmasse is about to be cleared from corruption charges. But there are secrets being unraveled: Harry isn’t really an art collector, and regarding Philippe, Camille’s world is about to be turned upside down. Does Harry know who is behind the framing of her father Philippe? Camille intends to find out.
Episode 2 – “Creatures of Habit” – Premieres Monday, June 26 on Acorn TV
The wife of Casino owner Maxine Beauregard is poisoned to death in front of his friends and
assistant. Camille (Lucie Lucas) and Lea (Tamara Marthe) are called to the scene, and all suspicions point toward the blacklisted gambler Roxie Roland. The problem is, there is no proof. After their mutual deal, Camille teams up with Harry (Jamie Bamber), trying to solve the murder. As a conman, there is no one better suited than to take down another con woman. But as the evidence and the suspects pile up, it takes a high-stakes poker game to unravel the truth. With Camille’s father in prison, Harry keeps his end of the bargain and gives Camille the name of the man threatening her father. He is already in Cannes.
Episode 3 – “A Clear Conscience” – Premieres Monday, July 3 on Acorn TV
A monk is found murdered below the fort Royal on the St Marguerite Island outside Cannes. The infamous island that housed the Man with the iron mask. Who killed the monk and why? Camille (Lucie Lucas) and Harry (Jamie Bamber) cross paths once again, making Lea (Tamara Marthe) jealous. Harry’s old friend Father Placid was a mentor to the dead monk, and Camille and Lea have to track down the victim’s troubled past in order to find the answers. Harry is one step ahead but gets in over his head, having to rely on Camille’s help to stay alive. Meanwhile her father’s nemesis Julien Boire makes it even more personal by approaching Camille’s sister Margaux. His warning to Camille is clear — stop digging or else.
Episode 4 – “The Deadlier Species” – Premieres Monday, July 3 on Acorn TV
Boire tries to run Camille (Lucie Lucas) off the road, but she manages to visit her father Philippe in prison. Camille and Lea (Tamara Marthe) are ordered to babysit arms-dealer and billionaire Leo Duval at The Majestic. Duval has been facing death threats, and it is rumored that the legendary assassin Nightshade is hired to kill him. Problem is that the Nightshade hasn’t been seen for fifteen years. Harry (Jamie Bamber) acts as the guide and encyclopedia trying to stop the assassin, something that brings Camille and Harry closer. When the dead body of a former MI6 operative shows up, Camille realizes the Nightshade is still alive. The riddle gets even more complex as the night closes in. There are stronger motives than money.
Episode 5 – “Southern Gothic” – Premieres Monday, July 10 on Acorn TV
Pascal, the son of the famous conductor Francois Fontaine, is found hanged after a seance. The Fontaine family are supposedly cursed, due to the tragic fate of the victim’s mother Babette who died in a mental asylum. Everybody but Camille that is, she doesn’t believe in ghosts. Camille (Lucie Lucas), Lea (Tamara Marthe), and Harry (Jamie Bamber) join forces to catch the killer, and have to go through shady mediums, news archives and scorned lovers to find the truth. A true southern gothic story, where nothing is what it seems. During all this, Camille and Harry try to lure Boire into a trap, something that will have dire consequences. Especially for Lea. In the end, Camille also realizes why Harry is in Cannes.
Episode 6 – “Love and Let Die” – Premieres Monday, July 10 on Acorn TV
During the Cannes film festival, Camille (Lucie Lucas) and Lea (Tamara Marthe) are assigned a murder case of famous actress Celeste Badeau’s assistant Zina. Was the movie star the intended target? The prime suspect is the notorious paparazzi Miko Zajac blackmailing Celeste, but why? During the investigation Lea meets Zina’s girlfriend and Lea’s former lover Eloise, and Camille sees that it affects her. Meanwhile Harry’s (Jamie Bamber) daughter Emily has been threatened by Boire, and he decides to stop the thug once and for all. Harry breaks into Boire’s office and finds alarming evidence that will shock Camille. Her father Philippe is about to be released, and Harry has to walk a fine line trying to protect Camille from ending up in the line of fire.
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Filming in early 2021, the 8-part Acorn TV series CANNES CONFIDENTIAL will feature unprecedented access to iconic Cote d’Azur city
Co-created and written by Chris Murray (Agatha Raisin, Midsomer Murders)
Following this week’s announcement on its commissioning of Ms. Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries, Series 2, AMC Networks’ Acorn TV is excited to announce the commissioning of new romantic procedural Cannes Confidential with Acorn Media Enterprises from Dramacorp. Marking the first English-language procedural drama to be produced and set on the Cote d’Azur since the 1970s, the 8-part romantic procedural will blend comedy, mystery and crime detection with a love story. The Acorn TV Original Series is casting now. Production will begin in early 2021 and film across the renowned city. The series will exclusively premiere on Acorn TV in North America, New Zealand, Australia, and United Kingdom in late 2021.
The co-creator and lead writer for the series is popular UK writer Chris Murray, a frequent writer for Acorn TV’s British mystery series Agatha Raisin starring Ashley Jensen, and writer for Van der Valk, Casualty, Midsomer Murders, and creator of BBC’s Doctors. Maria Ward (Agatha Raisin) will co-write the series. Producer Dramacorp is the Stockholm-based production company founded by Patrick Nebout, part of Jan Mojto’s Beta Film. Acorn Media Enterprises is Acorn TV’s commissioning and co-producing development division.
Cannes Confidential centres on the relationship between an idealistic, local underdog female cop and an ex-conman and master of counterfeit, who’s on the run from both the police and the mob. The pair are forced into an unlikely — and surprisingly successful — crime-fighting partnership, which sees them solve a murder case in each close-ended episode. However, the drama’s long arc focuses on the main character’s quest to find the criminals who framed her father, a local-hero police officer who was jailed for a murder he didn’t commit.
The series will be the first English-language procedural drama to be produced and set on the Cote d’Azur since the classic 1970s action-adventure comedy The Persuaders, starring Roger Moore and Tony Curtis, and will have exclusive access to film across the City of Cannes, which enables the series to use the trademark-protected name ‘Cannes’ in the show title. Cannes Confidential will also introduce viewers to a rarely seen view of Cannes beyond the yachts and superstars to its fishing boats, local tradesmen and working-class characters. These two worlds and two versions of reality will meet and be reflected in the personalities of the two main characters.
Catherine Mackin, Managing Director, Acorn Media Enterprises, noted, “Acorn Media Enterprises is thrilled to commission this highly entertaining new procedural from prolific UK writer Chris Murray and Dramacorp. With its engaging, blue sky script and beautiful setting, Cannes Confidential is the kind of program the world could use right now and is sure to entertain Acorn TV subscribers worldwide.”
Patrick Nebout, CCO and executive producer of Dramacorp, said: “We are excited to have AMC’s Acorn TV board Cannes Confidential. There’s truly a shared vision of the show with Catherine and her team. As his credits prove, head writer Chris Murray has a genius for creating deeply loved and witty characters and stories that run and run. The setting of Cannes Confidential is upbeat, colourful and spectacular, the wittiness is there, yet Chris and Maria are developing multi-layered main characters and strong emotional arcs, taking the procedural genre into a more elevated and romantic direction. And then there’s that other star of the show — Cannes — which will bring its own magic and nostalgic touch to our story. We’re looking forward to delivering something unique and distinctively romantic, far from the tons of very dark shows that have taken over the international market.”
Executive producers are Patrick Nebout and Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, who recently joined Dramacorp from Nice Drama. The pair are behind a number of TV-hits, among which the series Thicker Than Water, Midnight Sun, and the Swedish blockbuster comedy The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
AMC Networks’ ACORN TV is North America’s largest streaming service specializing in British and international television with over 1 million paid subscribers in the U.S and Canada as well as subscribers worldwide in the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand, and Latin America. Acorn TV adds exclusive new programs every week to a deep library of mysteries, dramas, and comedies with no commercials. In 2020, Acorn TV has featured the Irish period mystery series Dead Still, British dramas Deadwater Fell starring David Tennant and Cush Jumbo and Gold Digger starring Julia Ormond; as well as several returning favorites with Series 2 of Welsh drama Hidden and Acorn TV’s first feature film with Miss Fisher and the Crypt of Tears. Acorn TV has the U.S. Premieres of the highly-rated BBC One drama The Nest (Monday, July 13), Swedish drama Rebecka Martinsson, Season 2 (July 27), BBC One sitcom The Other One (Aug. 10), French drama Family Business (Aug. 24), as well as award-winning Australian drama Mystery Road, Series 2 and New Zealand thriller The Sounds this fall. Website: Acorn.TV
ABOUT AMC NETWORKS
Known for its groundbreaking and celebrated original content, AMC Networks is the company behind the award-winning brands AMC, BBC AMERICA, IFC, SundanceTV, WE tv, and IFC Films. Its diverse line-up of popular and critically-acclaimed series and independent films include Killing Eve, Better Call Saul and The Walking Dead, which has been the #1 show on basic cable television for nine consecutive years, as well as Portlandia, Brockmire, Love After Lockup, and the films Boyhood, Death of Stalin, and many more. Its original series Mad Men and Breaking Bad are widely recognized as being among the most influential and acclaimed shows in the history of TV. The Company also operates AMC Studios, its production business; AMC Networks International, its international programming business; the subscription streaming services Shudder, Sundance Now; Acorn TV; and UMC (Urban Movie Channel); and Levity Entertainment Group, the Company’s production services and comedy venues business. For more information, visit HTTP://WWW.AMCNETWORKS.COM.
About Dramacorp
Dramacorp was launched in 2016 by veteran drama producer Patrick Nebout and Jan Mojto, founder of German distribution powerhouse Beta Film, which is a major shareholder in the company. Based in Sweden, the company focuses on the origination, development and executive production of high-concept drama with international appeal. Nebout’s credits include the origination and production of the Canal + and SVT crime thriller series Midnight Sun — the first-ever TV project to be co-produced by French-Swedish partners; the family drama series Thicker Than Water; and the theatrical blockbuster The Hundred Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared.
