Acorn TV highlights for the month of March include The Syndicate: Up the Ante, The Paradise and Candice Renoir.
The Syndicate: Up the Ante
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Premieres March 7 – Full Series Binge
“… a reliably quippy, witty show. While it is never too demanding, it is regularly satisfying.”
– The Guardian (UK)
Created by much-admired British writer Kay Mellor, popular drama series The Syndicate explores the consequences of a major windfall for a syndicate of lottery winning ticket holders with a new cast of characters and a new story each season.
In the latest season, The Syndicate: Up the Ante, we meet the staff at Woodvale Kennels who discover their winning lottery ticket has been stolen. It’s action stations as they risk everything to find the man responsible in a race against time, before he spends all their prize money. Starring Katherine Rose Morley (Last Tango in Halifax), Taj Atwal (Line of Duty) and Neil Morrissey (The Good Karma Hospital).
The Paradise
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Premieres March 14 – Full Series Binge
“Few might know Riitta Havukainen outside Finland, but… she turns in a superb performance.”
– Variety
After a Finnish family is found murdered in cold blood on the Spanish Costa del Sol, a criminal investigator is sent from Finland. Travelling from Oulu to Spain, 60-year-old Hikka Mäntämäki (Riitta Havukainen) intends to uncover the truth. However, at home she is struggling to cope with her husband, Aarne, who is suffering from dementia so the opportunity to travel provides a welcome opportunity to escape her problems. Following a spate of crimes, she is drawn into solving them alongside her Spanish counterparts and soon discovers a connection with local Police Detective Andrés Villanueva (Fran Perea).
Candice Renoir (Series 4)
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Premieres March 28 – Full Series Binge
“Crime drama with a difference… Candice Renoir stands out from the crowd.”
– Drama Quarterly
The award-winning, much-loved police drama returns for series four, following Officer Commandant Candice Renoir, played with elan by Cécile Bois, who juggles being a single mother of four and with her job as a leading police detective in the South of France.
It’s a season fraught with new dangers for Inspector Renoir. When she is called to testify in a criminal trial, her investigative methods are ridiculed and her deputy inspector, Antoine Dumas, has left to join a more prestigious police unit. Worse still, one of Candice’s cases takes her back home to northern France where she finds out that her own mother is tangled up in a string of murders. There are also surprises: just how solid is Candice’s relationship with David Canovas, the charming commander of the Anti-Gang Brigade and will Antoine return to make his true feelings clear? And then there are all those handsome police captains up north…
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