Angela Merkel Detective Series Lands U.S. Home
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deadline.comThe TV series that reimagines Angela Merkel as a smalltown detective has found a U.S. home. Kino Lorber’s MHz Choice streamer has picked up Miss Merkel from Fremantle, two 90-minute tongue-in-cheek mysteries, with a third planned.
Starring vet German actress Katharina Thalbach (The Tin Drum), the RTL series, which has sold to a number of European networks, is based on the books by writer, humorist and actor David Safier (Berlin, Berlin).
It imagines the former German chancellor moving to a small town with her husband and her pug, Helmut, as she discovers a new calling as an amateur detective.
Safier pens the adaptations with Stefan Cantz (Tatort, Nord Nord Nord), with Christoph Schnee (Homicide Hills, Tatort) directing.
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