Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Goodbye Kgalewood, hello Cape Town: There will be a second season of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency and it won't be shot in Botswana.


I can tell you that not only will there be a second season of the at-first-thought-dead drama The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency but I can also tell you that it won't be shot Botswana (where the first season was done) but in Cape Town.

M-Net broadcast the first season of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency that was an HBO and BBC co-production. Botswana refused to commit more money to the production besides the first season's seven episodes, which basically put further seasons in limbo. Beside that the big dreams of building Botswana's Hollywood called ''Kgalewood'' has fallen flat (the sets used for the show was located at the bottom of Kgale Hill in Gaborone).

Now a second season of The No.1 Ladies Detective Agency will definitely be filmed and it will definitely happen in Cape Town.