Nordic streamer Viaplay and Amazon’s ad-supported service Freevee have scored online rights to Australian crime drama Troppo by the German group Leonine Studios.
Viaplay acquired the SVOD rights to the series, based on Candice Fox’s best-selling Crimson Lake novels, for Scandinavia, the Netherlands, Poland and the Baltic region. Amazon Freevee has scored AVOD rights for Germany and the UK
In TroppoThomas Jane plays Ted Conkaffey, an ex-cop living in tropical Australia’s Far North Queensland, who is recruited by Amanda Pharrell (Nicole Chamoun), an eccentric small-town private investigator, to investigate the murder of a brilliant tech pioneer. Created and written by Yolanda Ramke (cargo) and co-directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse (Wakefield), Troppo premiered on Australia’s ABC and debuted in the US on Freevee in May.
Radha Mitchell (Olympus has fallen), David Lyons (eat pray love) and Yerin Ha (Halo) Co-star.
Ramke is executive producer Troppo along with Stuart Ford, Lourdes Diaz and Matt Bankston of AGC Studios; Greg Quail, Lisa Duff and Simonne Overend of the EQ Media Group; Mikael Broglund and David Ogilvy of Beyond Entertainment; ABC’s Sally Riley and Andrew Gregory; and Jane and Courtney Lauren Penn through their Renegade Entertainment clapboard. Karl Zwicky is the producer of the series.
The Troppo deal was announced at the launch of MIPCOM, the international TV marketplace running October 17-20 in Cannes, France.
