‘Detective Cooper’ series to be co-produced by Goalpost Pictures

Malla Nunn's novel 'A Beautiful Place to Die' is being adapted for the small screen with South African broadcaster M-Net also on board.

Australia’s Goalpost Pictures and South Africa’s Quizzical Pictures will co-produce the series Detective Cooper for South African broadcaster M-Net. The series will be adapted from the multi-award-winning Detective Emmanuel Cooper book A Beautiful Place to Die by Australian/South African writer Malla Nunn.

The Detective Cooper story centres on a white detective in apartheid-era South Africa with a dangerous secret: he is in fact mixed race. 

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