Olivia Colman Has Joined HBO Crime Series 'The Landscapers'

Olivia Colman has joined a new crime drama TV movie, The Landscapers.

Deadline reports The drama show is a four-part series that will be directed by Alexander Payne, and is the first television screenplay from Olivia‘s husband, Ed Sinclair.

The Landscapers is inspired by real events and tells the story of killers Susan (Colman) and Christopher Edwards.

The pair, a mild-mannered couple from Mansfield in the UK, killed Susan’s parents and buried them in their back garden. The crime remained undiscovered for over a decade. It is a blackly comic true-crime drama based on extensive research, hours of interviews and direct access to the accused, who have always protested their innocence of murder.

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