Today, AMC Networks’ Acorn TV revealed the premiere date and all-new trailer for Season 2 of Recipes for Love and Murder, the South African culinary mystery series starring Maria Doyle Kennedy (Outlander, The Tudors). Hailed by critics as a “mix of human drama, gorgeous landscape, local color, and mouthwatering cooking” (New York Times) with a “one-of-a-kind heroine” (Variety), Season 2 of the eight-episode Acorn TV original series debuts with a two-episode premiere on Monday, March 3 on Acorn TV, with new episodes releasing weekly.
When a massive fire engulfs the small town of Eden, a fateful chain of events is triggered and Tannie Maria (Doyle Kennedy), Jessie (Kylie Fisher, Fraksie) and Khaya (Tony Kgoroge, Invictus) get dragged into a multiple murder investigation that unearths the town’s darkest secrets.
Joining Doyle Kennedy, Kgoroge, and Fisher in Season 2 are Wynand Ferreira (Moffie, Mooiweer en Warm, Wyfie), who portrays Jaco, Regardt’s intense younger brother; Gerard Rudolph (Donkerland, Devils Peak) as Ricus, a trained psychologist turned mechanic; and Hlubi Mboya (Blood Psalms, I Am All Girls) as Jackie Baloyi, the new undertaker following the passing of Hattie’s husband.
Recipes for Love & Murder is directed by Jozua Malherbe and Karen Jeynes and produced by Thierry Cassuto in a partnership between AMC Networks’ Acorn TV, Multichoice, and Both Worlds Pictures, in co-operation with Global Screen. Acorn TV hold distribution rights to the series for the USA, Canada, UK, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand, Multichoice hold the rights for Africa, with Global Screen selling to the rest of the world.
The March 3rd Season 2 premiere and subsequent episodes of Recipes for Love and Murder will be available via Acorn TV in the U.S., Canada, UK (including Northern Ireland), Australia, and New Zealand.
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Recipes for Love and Murder |
| Network: M-NetGenre: MysterySeasons: 2Episodes: 18 | |
OverviewTannie Maria sees food as "medicine for the body and heart". She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it's death that shakes up Tannie Maria's life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered. |
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Ricci made her film debut at the age of nine in Mermaids (1990), which was followed by a breakout role as Wednesday Addams in The Addams Family (1991) and its sequel, Addams Family Values (1993). Subsequent appearances in Casper and Now and Then (both 1995) established her as a teen idol. At 17, she moved into adult-oriented roles with The Ice Storm (1997), which led to parts in several independent films, such as Pecker (1998), The Opposite of Sex (1998), and Monster (2003). She has also starred in Sleepy Hollow (1999), 200 Cigarettes (1999), Penelope (2006), and Speed Racer (2008), and had a supporting role in The Matrix Resurrections (2021). 
