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Matt Passmore pilot gets US pick-up

Matt Passmore will star as a homicide detective from Chicago wrongfully accused of sleeping with his former Captain's wife.

Australia’s Matt Passmore has himself a US television series after the pilot episode of Sugarloaf was given the pick-up by the A& E network.

The cable network has given the greenlight to a 13-episode order.

Produced by FOX TV Studios, the drama describes Passmore as Jim Longworth “an attractive, brilliant, yet hard to get along with homicide detective from Chicago who after being wrongfully accused of sleeping with his former Captain’s wife, is forced into exile.”

Longworth relocates to Sugarloaf, a sleepy small resort town in the middle of nowhere on the Gulf Coast of Florida where the sunshine and golf are plentiful and crime is seemingly at a minimum. Yet life in Sugarloaf is not as beautiful as it may seem.

But it came at the expense of another Aussie, Rahda Mitchell’s pilot for The Quickening.

Tana Nugent Jamieson from A&E said of Sugarloaf, “It takes a typical gritty police procedural but has fun with the main character and adds the blue-sky backdrop of rural Florida. It’s pure entertainment that will complement the network’s current line-up of hit real-life series and off-net dramas.”

Passmore recently appeared in The Cut on the ABC and Underbelly.

Source: Hollywood Reporter

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