Gracepoint: Broadchurch Gets A New Name And An American Network

Having reviewed the trailer for Gracepoint I realized that it is an Americanized version of the British show Broadchurch. I then smelt disaster for the fledging series.  Now, while I love the works of actor David Tennant, I did not like Broadchurch very well as a television series. I thought it moved too slow for all of its predictability. Although the series has won several British awards including 'best drama series', I believed, that I would have enjoyed Broadchurch more as a 2-hour made for TV movie.

Now Fox has picked up Gracepoint as a limited series (meaning there is a chance for a second season if this first

one does well), and in spite of its new name , it is still the former British made series, Broadchurch.  However, for all the sameness in the trailer, there are some changes. Fans of Tennant will immediately notice that he has dropped his delightful Scottish accent for a American one, and supposedly there were a few  changes made to the old series storyline that add some new dimension and intrigue that will lead the series in a new direction.  This strategy worked well for the successful Canadian made series Being Human, which was based on the British series of the same name.

Despite my pessimistic view of Gracepoint's future, it will be good to see David Tennant on screen again. More than being known as the tenth Doctor Who, Tennant is one the Royal Shakespeare Company most renowned actor, On Gracepoint he has revised his role as the detective in charge but as Detective Emmett Carver.

 

Storyline: a young boy is found dead on a beach of a peaceful little California seaside town and soon suspicions feeds the minds of the people and their secrets begin to flow as Detective Carver and his partner Detective Ellie Miller (Anna Gunn) expand their search to find the murderer.

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