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Release year: 2014

Storyline

When a young boy is found dead on an idyllic beach, a major police investigation gets underway in the small California seaside town where the tragedy occurred. Soon deemed a homicide, the case sparks a media frenzy, which throws the boy's family into further turmoil and upends the lives of all of the town's residents.

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Cast

David Tennant — Detective Emmett Carver
Anna Gunn — Detective Ellie Miller
Virginia Kull — Beth Solano
Kevin Rankin — Rev. Paul Coates

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Did you know

• Fox originally planned to cast an all-new all-American cast for Gracepoint, using none of the actors from the British original. However they allowed David Tennant to audition for the role of Carver (the role based on the role he played in Broadchurch) and he "blew away the competition" winning the role over all the American actors who also auditioned for Carver, even though Tennant had auditioned in an accent that was not his own.

• Is a remake of the British show Broadchurch, which David Tennant was also in.

• Gracepoint is a ten-episode series whereas Broadchurch, the British show it is based on, was eight-episodes. The reason for the extra two episodes is because Broadchurch was originally created to be ten episodes long. However the British network ITV would only commission eight episodes, forcing the creators to cut two episodes. Fox allowed the creators free choice over how many episodes Gracepoint would be, so they chose to restore the missing two episodes.