HBO on the case with "Ladies' Detective Agency"

By Kimberly Nordyke 1 hour, 5 minutes ago

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) -
HBO has retained the
services of "The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency."

The cable network has ordered 13 hour-long episodes based
on the best-selling crime books by Alexander McCall Smith, with
shooting to begin in the summer. That's in addition to the
two-hour pilot that Anthony Minghella ("The English Patient")
recently shot in Botswana from a script he wrote with Richard
Curtis ("Four Weddings and a Funeral").

"Agency" stars R&B singer Jill Scott as Precious Ramotswe,
the proprietor of the only female-owned detective agency in the
southern African nation. Anika Noni Rose plays her quirky
secretary, Mma Makutsi, and Lucian Msamati stars as Ramotswe's
devoted suitor, JLB Matekoni.

HBO has secured U.S. and Canadian television and home video
rights, and the BBC has taken U.K. television distribution. The
Weinstein Co. controls all other international territories.

Reuters/Hollywood Reporter

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