Quail TV Signs Foxtel And TV3 To Pitcairn Mini-Series

Leading Australian production house Quail Television has secured two significant new co-production partners for its docudrama / dramatic telefeature Pitcairn: Paradise Lost, currently in development.
Foxtel’s Crime and Investigation Channel in Australia and TV3 in New Zealand have both joined the project as co-producers, as well as acquiring broadcast rights at pre-sale. A gripping, true-life courtroom thriller, Pitcairn: Paradise Lost tells the extraordinary story of the ritualised abuse on a remote island paradise and the trial that followed, one that made headlines around the world.
Greg Quail, Executive Producer and Founder at Quail Television said: "We are very pleased to partner with Foxtel and TV3, in what is a major step forward for the project as we continue development. Pitcairn: Paradise Lost has already attracted great interest from around the world and we will be travelling to the UK and MIPCOM later this month to secure further co-production partners and pre-sales."
For 200 years, the island home of Fletcher Christian and the other H.M.S. Bounty mutineers symbolised paradise… until 1996, when Pitcairn Island’s horrific secret was revealed – the ritualised abuse of nearly every island girl, often as children, by generations of mutineer descendants.
A shocking account of abuse of power as well as an inspiring tale of justice, Pitcairn: "Paradise Lost is the story of the trial that followed and the people involved - from the brave few girls who dared speak out; to the island's accused men and the island women who, bizarrely, would mostly defend them; to the handful of lawyers and journalists who moved to the island to investigate the story.
"It also reveals the stunning final legal twist that no-one saw coming - the possibility that Pitcairn Island was never even part of Britain, and might be the only place on earth with no law at all."
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