Cape Town (TV series)

Cape Town (also known as Mat Joubert) is a South African-German produced TV-series based on the novel Dead Before Dying by author Deon Meyer.^[1] The series is produced by German company all-in-production, whose head Annette Reeker bought rights 5 years before starting the production. Produced without any television channel backing it, Reeker funded the series with private earnings of about 6 million Euro^[2] and wrote the episodes on her own, with English writer Mark Needham translating them from German into English.^[3] The world premiere of the series was scheduled for June 23, 2016, on Polish channel TVN.^[4]

Cape Town
Also known as	Mat Joubert
Genre	Drama Crime
Created by	Annette Reeker
Based on	Dead Before Dying by Deon Meyer
Written by	Annette Reeker & Mark Needham
Directed by	Peter Ladkani
Starring	Trond Espen Seim Boris Kodjoe Arnold Vosloo Marcin Dorociński Axel Milberg Jessica Haines Isolda Dychauk Jody Abrahams Ian Roberts Nandi Horak
Country of origin	South Africa, Germany
Original language	English
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	6
Production
Producers	Samantha Putter Adam Friedlander Boris Kodjoe Brecht Driesen
Production companies	all-in-production Out Of Africa entertainment Dynamic Television
Original release
Release	23 June 2016 (2016-06-23)

Plot

Cop Mat Joubert is devastated following the murder of his wife, who also worked for the police. He now spends his time drinking and contemplating suicide. When he gets back to work, Mat discovers he has been partnered with a new colleague and has to investigate the murders of several men, all shot with the same German weapon. Meanwhile, elsewhere in Cape Town, young female models are being drugged, raped and murdered.

Cast and characters

• Trond Espen Seim as Mat Joubert
• Boris Kodjoe as Sanctus Snook
• Arnold Vosloo as Robin van Rees
• Marcin Dorociński as Christian Coolidge
• Axel Milberg as Norbert Wernicke
• Jessica Haines as Hanna Nortier
• Isolda Dychauk as Irena Krol
• Jody Abrahams as Bart de Wit
• Ian Roberts as Gerbrand Vos
• Nandi Horak as Rosina Windburg
• Vusi Kunene