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If the movies are actually made, they’ll be filmed mostly in Cape Town with occasional lensing in Botswana, the locale where the story is set.

The Botswana government, hard hit by the recession, balked at the idea of subsidizing film production while South Africa doubled their rebate offer. It was reported last month that the show’s producers had relocated from Botswana to Cape Town. It seems they won’t be filmed completely in Botswana however. If they get the final go-ahead, the two HBO movies would likely be shot back-to-back. And if we can get the cast together and if everything can come together we’ve love to do it. This weekend, Lombardo said, “We’re talking to our friends at the Weinstein Company about the possibility of, and actually developing two scripts, possibly to do two movies. The cast includes Jill Scott, Anika Noni Rose, Lucian Msamati, and Desmond Dube. Chapter 7: Mma Ramotswe unravels an insurance scam.

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1 Ladies’ Detective Agency ran for seven episodes on HBO, from March until May in 2009. Though it won’t be continuing as a TV series, there are plans to continue the story in the form of two movies. At the TCA press tour, Michael Lombardo, HBO’s president of programming, spoke about the future of No.