Beauty and the Beast‘s Kristin Kreuk and Catastrophe‘s Rossif Sutherland are on board to star in Murder in a Small Town, a crime drama based on L.R. Wright’s award-winning “Karl Alberg” book series. The series is an international co-production with Canada’s Sepia Films and will shoot in British Columbia.
Fox is targeting a 2024-2025 primetime season premiere for the psychological drama.
“Murder in a Small Town follows Karl Alberg (Sutherland), who moves to a quiet coastal town to soothe a psyche that has been battered by big-city police work. But this gentle paradise has more than its share of secrets, and Karl will need to call upon all the skills that made him a world-class detective in solving the murders that, even in this seemingly idyllic setting, continue to wash up on his shore,” reads Fox’s synopsis. “Kreuk stars as Cassandra, a local librarian who becomes Alberg’s muse, foil, and romantic interest.”
The series comes from executive producer and head writer Ian Weir (Arctic Air) and Sepia Films in association with FOX Entertainment and Jeff Wachtel’s Future Shack Entertainment. Milan Cheylov (The Cleaning Lady) is directing multiple episodes and will executive produce along with Nick Orchard, Morris Ruskin, Sharon Wisnia, and Jon Cotton.
“Ian has done a masterful job bringing L.R. Wright’s seminal detective Karl Alberg to life, finding his perfect alter ego, Rossif Sutherland, to star on screen alongside Kristin Kreuk,” said Michael Thorn, President, Scripted Programming, of FOX Entertainment. “Murder in a Small Town illustrates our ongoing strategy to identify and commission impactful global content in a smart and effective manner with proven creative partners, all of which we have found in Ian, Milan, Sepia Films and Future Shack.”
“We are thrilled to be collaborating with FOX Entertainment and Future Shack on an innovative production model that will bring the internationally acclaimed Karl Alberg mystery novels by Edgar Award-winning novelist L.R. Wright to the screen,” said Tina Pehme and Kim Roberts, Co-CEOs/Producers of Sepia Films.
