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?
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Please make more of these tv series and movies! I found this series on Netflix and I love it!! Love the characters, the morals and kindness shown. This is such a rare find, when most series are so violent and graphic! I was so sorry to see it lasted only 1 season!! Please continue this, I love it!!
I really love this series! I recently discovered it on HBO and I’ve watched every episode several times. I feel a sense of home when I watch it…I just love it! Will you please continue the series? It’s well-written and fun to watch!!!
I would love to see more of the #1 LDA….any way I can get it. I’ve read the books and seen the 7 tv shows. I WANT MORE! Love the characters, locale, music, everything! Please make more!
Just discovered this beautiful, positive, awesome show through my local library. Bring it back already!!! Transports me to my beautiful Africa. It’s a show I can watch with children. No smut, guts or mayhem just awesome, funny, touching entertainment. No reality show here just an “real” show for all to enjoy.
absolutely…loved the books…loving the TV series we’ve obtained from netflix
I would love to see The No 1 Ladies Detective Agency continue. It is witty and wholesome and very very captivating. Love the show. Please make TV shows, Movies, Mini Series anything!
Gail Palmer
Do the movies already!
Enjoy the sweet series! Smart and colorful characters. Scott plays a clever detective full of integrity and very amiable.
I would really enjoy a continuation of the series.
Tracey
PLEASE do the films! The world is in need of moral and non-violent and loving movies.
I would love to see more of Ladies Detective Agency. Have been waiting for the tv series and/or movies.
I would really like to see the movie happen, please continue.
Omg I love this show wish
I can see more
why would this show be cancelled? it’s every bit as good as Downton Abbey!(which is wonderful) Please please please make more shows and/or movies. I know many people who love this series.
Season 2, 3 and more – PLEASE!!!!
I realize I am coming late to this website, but I have only just discovered the DVD of season 1. I have loved the books and with hesitation decided to check out the tv series. It is magnificent! I have never seen a TV adaptation of a wonderful book that so completely realized my own image of the characters, the places which reading had shaped in my own mind. Every one in this series is perfect, the editing and few changes to the stories are respectful and sensitive and Oh My Gosh how thrilling to see this powerful and inspiring… Read more »