At the TCA press tour, Michael Lombardo, HBO’s president of programming, spoke about the future of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency. Though it won’t be continuing as a TV series, there are plans to continue the story in the form of two movies.
No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ran for seven episodes on HBO, from March until May in 2009. The comedy-drama was filmed on location in Botswana and follows Mma Ramotswe as she operates a detective agency. The cast includes Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati, and Desmond Dube.
This weekend, Lombardo said, “We’re talking to our friends at the Weinstein Company about the possibility of, and actually developing two scripts, possibly to do two movies. And if we can get the cast together and if everything can come together we’ve love to do it. So it’s alive.”
If they get the final go-ahead, the two HBO movies would likely be shot back-to-back. It seems they won’t be filmed completely in Botswana however.
It was reported last month that the show’s producers had relocated from Botswana to Cape Town. The Botswana government, hard hit by the recession, balked at the idea of subsidizing film production while South Africa doubled their rebate offer.
If the movies are actually made, they’ll be filmed mostly in Cape Town with occasional lensing in Botswana, the locale where the story is set.
What do you think? Are you a fan of No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency? Would you like to see it return as a pair of movies?
Image courtesy HBO.
Nothing disappoints me more than watching the season just to realize we are left at a cliff hanger…
Please continue the series or movies either will do. It was a lovely series and the book is amazing too
Please make two movies of it. It was such a disappointment you took it off.
Please make more TV shows, I love the series and characters. So warm and fun.
Please, please, please Jill Scott will you please make more of this show? We absolutely loved it as a family!!! I had no idea it was ever on and we just found it 🙁
I am sick about just finding that this show was cancelled!!!!!! I absolutely loved all the characters, the wardrobe, the dialect and the scenery. I was excited when watching the 2009 Beauty and Integrity Pageant episode to think I would be seeing following seasons. Ugh! This show well deserved to have been continued for years. If only I had the power and money to have made it happen. The Powers that Were really missed out on this Gem. Looking for the books now.
Please bring back the series,I am saddened about the way it ended.There are so many more stories to tell. I really enjoyed it and love the many characters.
I guess not only one started watching years later. When Google is talks of more seasons on Youtube
Hopefully you can bring to life many of the books that Alexander McCall Smith wrote, that he continues to write about the #1 Ladies Home Detective Agency and produce them as Movies or TV series again. Such interesting story lines, and Jill Scott & Anika Rose and Lucian Msamati > much chemistry between all 3 characters. SO>maybe some producer might be able to restore and resolve the obstacles facing production issues at hand?
please, please continue this series as movies
Please continue this fabulous series, 2 films to continue, sounds great!
Plz make the Ladies’ Detective Agency movies!
yes we would love to see more No 1 ladies detective agency
Please continue this ! Cast was wonderful, but I’m guessing it’s been too long, will need to recast.
Help!!!
Please let us fans know of any new news with regards to Movies being made. We need closure. We have read the series of books and are left in limbo
The cast is so talented and Jill Scott shines!! My niece told me about the show last night and my husband and I started binging this show with a vengeance!!!! Please give us more.