Riviera romance

An English rogue teams up with a French cop in a chalk-and-cheese crime caper starring Jamie Bamber

- STEVEN PERKINS, ALISON SLADE

NEW CRIME DRAMA
Cannes Confidential
From Monday 26 June, Acorn TV (two episodes released weekly)

Picture Cannes and you’ll probably imagine an azure ocean, the annual film festival or multimillionaires sunbathing on superyachts – but Acorn TV’s six-part romantic crime drama Cannes Confidential is hoping to make it synonymous with screwball comedy and a ‘will they, won’t they?’ central pairing.

Detective Camille Delmasse (Lucie Lucas) is having a challenging day when she collides with debonair art collector Harry King (Beyond Paradise’s Jamie Bamber) on the Boulevard de la Croisette, wrecking her beloved classic car in the process.

Already irritated by the smooth-talking stranger, Camille’s day goes from bad to worse as she and her colleague Léa Robert (Tamara Marthe) investigate the murder of a street artist known as the Jester, only to find themselves constantly crossing paths with Harry…