“What I like about Mick is that he’s form of damaged, however no one sees it,” Stephen Moyer (True Blood) mentioned of the artwork loving Detective Inspector Mick Palmer when TV Insider visited the Belfast set of Artwork Detectives final November. The witty and mesmerizing new crime drama, premiering on Acorn TV on Monday, June 9, facilities across the Heritage Crime Unit, which investigates circumstances related to artwork and antiques – with loads of homicide thrown in.
Our unique first look photograph is from the sequence premiere, the place lone wolf Palmer meets straight-talking Detective Constable Shazia Malik (Nina Singh, The Lazarus Undertaking). “Mick sees in her a type of formidable, younger, kindred spirit, and he asks her to come back and be part of him. And it’s the primary time that he’s type of let anyone in,” Moyer informed us after a day of capturing on the Ulster Museum, the place he and Singh filmed a scene trying to find clues round against the law scene dominated by a large sarcophagus.
In addition to Egyptian antiquities, their circumstances contain Outdated Grasp work, Banksy road artwork, medieval manuscripts, collectible vinyl, and rather more. “Palmer and Malik are there due to what’s taking place throughout the case of fraud or artwork, and so they come upon issues. Via good detective work, they discover out that there’s a physique,” Moyer revealed.
As the 2 sort out homicide circumstances within the wealthy, colourful artwork world, which is pushed by greed, obsession, lust, and revenge, Palmer additionally navigates a romance with museum curator Rosa (Sarah Alexander, Coupling) and the reappearance of his dad, Ron (Larry Lamb, EastEnders) — a infamous forger.
However the detectives’ quirky and entertaining partnership is on the coronary heart of all of it. Moyer informed us with fun, “Shazia is astute and lively and sensible, and she or he drives like a lunatic, which actually scares Mick.”
Artwork Detectives, Sequence Premiere, Monday, June 9, Acorn TV