A new BBC Daytime detective drama is gearing up to film on Majorca towards the end of the year.

The Mallorca Files is set among the expat community on the Balearic island and centres on the clash between two detectives, one British and one German, as they conflict over their different approaches to solving crime.

The ten-episode run is the first commission for Cosmopolitan Pictures, a production company founded by Ben Donald under the umbrella of Clerkenwell Films.

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Showrunner Dan Sefton created the drama and heads a team of writers. He said of the commission at the time of the greenlight announcement: “With influences from Almodovar to [the] Coen Brothers, The Mallorca Files brings a fresh new spin to the story of two supposedly mismatched cops forced into an uneasy partnership.”

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