Cape Town (TV series)

Cape Town
Also known asMat Joubert
Genre
Created byAnnette Reeker
Based onDead Before Dying
by Deon Meyer
Written byAnnette Reeker & Mark Needham
Directed byPeter Ladkani
Starring
Country of originSouth Africa, Germany
Original languageEnglish
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes6
Production
Producers
  • Samantha Putter
  • Adam Friedlander
  • Boris Kodjoe
  • Brecht Driesen
Production companies
  • all-in-production
  • Out Of Africa entertainment
  • Dynamic Television
Original release
Release23 June 2016 (2016-06-23)

Cape Town (also known as Mat Joubert) is a South African-German produced TV-series based on the novel Dead Before Dying by author Deon Meyer.[1] The series is produced by German company all-in-production, whose head Annette Reeker bought rights 5 years before starting the production. Produced without any television channel backing it, Reeker funded the series with private earnings of about 6 million Euro[2] and wrote the episodes on her own, with English writer Mark Needham translating them from German into English.[3] The world premiere of the series was scheduled for June 23, 2016, on Polish channel TVN.[4]

Plot

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Cop Mat Joubert is devastated following the murder of his wife, who also worked for the police. He now spends his time drinking and contemplating suicide. When he gets back to work, Mat discovers he has been partnered with a new colleague and has to investigate the murders of several men, all shot with the same German weapon. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Cape Town, young female models are being drugged, raped and murdered.

Cast and characters

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References

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  1. ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2016-08-16. Retrieved 2016-07-05.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  2. ^ GmbH, DWDL.de. "Gewagtes Serien-Abenteuer am Kap der guten Hoffnung - DWDL.de".
  3. ^ Germany, Quotenmeter GmbH, Würzburg. ""Cape Town" - Stadt ohne Identität".{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  4. ^ "Weltpremiere: "Cape Town" startet in Polen - all-in-production". Archived from the original on 2016-07-05. Retrieved 2016-07-05.
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