EXCLUSIVE: Acorn TV, the AMC Networks-owned streamer, is exploring the art world in its latest original crime drama.
The streamer has greenlit Art Detectives starring and exec produced by Stephen Moyer. The True Blood star, who recently starred in PBS’ reboot of The Forsyte Saga and Paramount+’s remake of Sexy Beast, plays art loving DI Mick Palmer in the series, which is centered around the Heritage Crime Unit police department.
Alongside straight-talking DC Shazia Malik, played by The Lazarus Project’s Nina Singh, the pair solve murders connected to the world of art and antiques, from Old Master paintings, to Banksy street art, medieval manuscripts and collectible vinyl.
In the series, the artfully astute detectives encounter a fake Vermeer, Viking gold, a rare Chinese vase and items rescued from the Titanic.
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