South Africa‘s Quizzical Pictures has commissioned eight-part crime series “Murder By The Sea.”
The series is set in Blaasgat, a fictional coastal town named after its giant blowhole. When Lennart Cato, a local man-made-good, is found dead inside a papier-mâché whale on the opening night of a new Whale Museum that he’s funding, the locals turn to town resident and retired old-school thespian Lawrence Mantooth for answers.
“Murder By The Sea” is currently in development and being scripted by writer Darrel Bristow-Bovey, who also serves as executive producer on the series, based on an original idea from Bristow-Bovey and Joanna Simon. Bristow-Bovey wrote Quizzical’s “White Lies,” starring Natalie Dormer (“Game of Thrones”) as an investigative journalist in Cape Town, which was one of Variety‘s buzz titles at Mipcom earlier this year.
