Acquisition
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has picked up South African detective drama “The Cane Field Killings” starring Kim Engelbrecht (“Bullet Proof”) and Iain Glen (“Game of Thrones”). The eight-episode series, which launched last year in South Africa, will launch on Channel 4 on Apr. 10. The drama tells the story of a brilliant criminal profiler, Reyka Gama (Engelbrecht), who is struggling to comes to terms with her dark past. Having been abducted as a child by farmer Angus Speelman (Glen), Reyka now channels that traumatic experience to enter into the mindset of Africa’s most notorious criminals. The series follows her investigation into a string of brutal murders committed by a serial killer in the sugar cane fields of Kwa-Zulu-Natal.
The show is produced by Serena Cullen for Serena Cullen Productions and Harriet Gavshon for Quizzical Pictures. “The Cane Field Killings” is a co-production between M-Net and Fremantle and is distributed internationally by Fremantle.
U.K. broadcaster Channel 4 has picked up South African detective drama “The Cane Field Killings” starring Kim Engelbrecht (“Bullet Proof”) and Iain Glen (“Game of Thrones”). The eight-episode series, which launched last year in South Africa, will launch on Channel 4 on Apr. 10. The drama tells the story of a brilliant criminal profiler, Reyka Gama (Engelbrecht), who is struggling to comes to terms with her dark past. Having been abducted as a child by farmer Angus Speelman (Glen), Reyka now channels that traumatic experience to enter into the mindset of Africa’s most notorious criminals. The series follows her investigation into a string of brutal murders committed by a serial killer in the sugar cane fields of Kwa-Zulu-Natal.
The show is produced by Serena Cullen for Serena Cullen Productions and Harriet Gavshon for Quizzical Pictures. “The Cane Field Killings” is a co-production between M-Net and Fremantle and is distributed internationally by Fremantle.
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- by Naman Ramachandran
- Variety Film + TV
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- 4/28/2016
- by Hilary Shenfeld, @HilaryShen
- PEOPLE.com
More than 10 months after the disappearance of a suburban St. Louis woman who was in the midst of a divorce, her body was found in a shallow grave - and her estranged husband has been charged with her murder. Linda McLaughlin, 57, of Sunset Hills, Missouri, was last seen alive on June 1, 2015 at the family's business, McLaughlin Hoist & Crane in Fenton, Missouri, according to charging documents. She had filed for divorce from her husband of 35 years, John McLaughlin, in December 2014. Three days after her disappearance - June 4, 2015 - she was scheduled to appear in court for settlement talks in their divorce.
- 4/28/2016
- by Hilary Shenfeld, @HilaryShen
- PEOPLE.com
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