Thomas Jane will star as Detective Ted Conkaffey in the Australian-set crime series Troppo . Stateless director Jocelyn Moorhouse will helm the eight-part series, which ABC, Screen Australia, and AGC Studios are financing.
The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has given the greenlight to
Troppo, a new Oz-set crime series starring Thomas Jane (
The Expanse).
Stateless, has come on board to helm the eight-part series. Yolanda Ramke (Netflix’s
Cargo) is writing the show based on Candice Fox’s bestselling novel
Crimson Lake, the first in Fox s Detective Ted Conkaffey series.
Jane will play Detective Conkaffey, an ex-cop accused of a disturbing crime who tries to find a safe haven in the outback of Far North Queensland. Instead, he again becomes entangled in a local private investigations agency and, together with his new partner Amanda Pharrell, sets out to solve a mysterious death.
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