US star Thomas Jane ('The Expanse', 'Hung') has been announced as the lead for ABC crime series 'Troppo', due to shoot on the Gold Coast and Far North Queensland mid-year.
Crime drama 'Troppo', starring Thomas Jane and Nicole Chamoun, is set to kick off the ABC's 2022 Australian drama slate.
Germany's Leonine Studios has picked up worldwide distribution rights to crime drama 'Troppo', following its premiere on the ABC in February.
The ABC will rely on a slew of returning favourites and some British flavour to take it forward in 2024 as it adjusts to a new programming structure.
Production has wrapped in Queensland on the second season of the ABC's 'Troppo', with Thomas Jane and Nicole Chamoun reprising their roles as private investigators Ted Conkaffey and Amanda Pharrell.
French-based entertainment giant Banijay has moved to acquire production and distribution company Beyond International in a deal that would absorb more than 8,000 hours of IP, including 'Halifax: Retribution', 'MythBusters' and 'Deadly Women'.
With the future of Australian drama under the microscope in wake of relaxed local content quotas, there was always going to be added interest in the ABC's 2022 slate.
Essential Media and Los Angeles-based Dynamic Television have hired Yolanda Ramke to write Troppo, an 8-part crime drama based on Australian author Candice Fox’s novel Crimson Lake.