First look at Malin-Sarah Gozin's new dark-comedy thriller 'Dead End'
Caviar releases the first glimpse of Dead End, a new series starring Peter Van den Begin and Elise Schaap. The six-part series is created, written and directed by Malin-Sarah Gozin and co-directed by Hans Vercauter. Executive producers are Malin-Sarah Gozin, Brett Baer, Dave Finkel and Bert Hamelinck & Dimitri Verbeeck.
The series follows Ed Bex, who has a peculiar eating disorder: whenever he tastes something, he’s able to see flashes of what happened to it in the past. It’s a bizarre “gift” he uses in his unconventional job, running his one-man business “The Aftertaste”, where Ed helps grieving families cope by reconstructing the final moments of their loved one’s. How does he do it? By “seeing” what only he can see - sucking on someone’s toothbrush or tasting their lipstick.
When Inspector Adams comes upon a corpse in an airtight bag, he turns to Ed for help catching the killer. Ed’s faced with a dilemma: should he use his unusual gift to solve the murder? If his freaky gift works on a carrot or a lamb chop, would it work on human flesh, too? As Ed “sinks his teeth” into the case, he finds himself caught in a whirlwind of bizarre events, family trouble and mid-life struggles.
The ensemble cast includes Peter Van den Begin (Tabula Rasa), Elise Schaap (Undercover & Amsterdam Empire), Marjan De Schutter (Geldwolven), Emilie De Roo (Beau Séjour), Ward Kerremans (Soil) and Jesse Bo Gebruers (At Night We Fly).
Gozin, who created and wrote Caviar's series Tabula Rasa and Clan, previously worked together with Baer and Finkel on the remake of Clan, Bad Sisters, for Apple and ABC Signature Studios. Bad Sisters received three BAFTA Awards, including Best Drama Series, several Irish Film and TV Awards, a Peabody as well as four Emmy Nominations.
Dead End (Dood Spoor) is produced by Lompvis for Caviar, PlayMedia & Streamz and received the support from the Media Fund of the Flanders Audiovisual Fund (VAF) of the Flemish minister of Media, Screen Flanders, BNP Paribas Fortis Film Finance & Caviar Film Financing. The series will be released in 2025 on Play Media & Streamz in Belgium. The international rights are distributed by Caviar.
Malin-Sarah Gozin
Malin-Sarah Gozin is an acclaimed Belgian television showrunner and creator. Her work has drawn international attention for its innovative storytelling and distinctive tone, as well as its genre-bending and blending approach. Malin-Sarah created the heralded series Clan, a dark-comedy thriller about four sisters who plot to murder their brother-in-law. The show was one of Belgium’s most successful television series, garnering multiple awards inside and outside Belgium and was later adapted to the international hit series Bad Sisters. Following Clan, she created Connie & Clyde, a two season comedy series featuring a woman who heads a matchmaking service while struggling with her own catastrophic marriage. Her subsequent signature drama was Tabula Rasa, a psychological thriller about a young woman who suffers from amnesia and who holds the key to a missing person’s case. Tabula Rasa enjoyed an impressive international festival tour and was broadcast in several territories, and appeared on Netflix.
Malin-Sarah is an Executive Producer and co-writer of the entire premiere season of Professor T, which launched on ITV, Britbox and PBS to great success. She also Executive Produced F*** You Very Very Much, which premiered on the Belgian streaming platform Streamz and aired on SBS’ Play4. She executive produced both critically acclaimed seasons of Bad Sisters for Apple TV+, based on her original series Clan, which received three BAFTA Awards, several Irish Film and TV Awards, a Peabody as well as four Emmy Nominations.
Brett Baer & Dave Finkel
Emmy Award-winning producer and writer Brett Baer began his career performing in the Groundlings’ Sunday Company and the ACME Comedy Theatre, where he met his longtime writing and producing partner, Dave Finkel. Emmy Award-winning producer and writer Dave Finkel is a Los Angeles native first made his way to the ACME Comedy Theater. There, he met his writing and producing partner, Brett Baer. Brett, Dave and Sharon Horgan adapted the successful Belgian format entitled Clan as Bad Sisters for Apple and ABC Signature Studios. Brett and Dave served as showrunners for all seven seasons of New Girl, from pilot to finale. The pair started their writing careers on Steven Spielberg’s animated programs Animaniacs and Pinky and The Brain, for which they received a Daytime Emmy Award nomination. In 2007, they won their first Emmy (along with a Writers Guild Award) serving as Co-Executive Producers on the comedy series 30 ROCK. Dave and Brett are currently Executive Producers on Brothers starring Matthew McConaughey and Woody Harrelson for Skydance and Apple TV+. In addition, the team is developing a series based on the iconic and beloved film GALAXY QUEST for Paramount.
About Caviar
Caviar is an Academy Award-nominated entertainment company with offices in Los Angeles, Brussels, London, Paris, and Amsterdam. Credits include the two-time Oscar winning film from Darius Marder, Sound of Metal, starring Riz Ahmed; the Sundance docu-feature Jawline; Chloé Zhao’s sophomore feature The Rider; The Diary of a Teenage Girl from writer/director Marielle Heller; Adil & Bilall’s latest film Rebel; and Riley Keough and Gina Gammell’s directorial debut feature, War Pony. On the television side, Caviar won its first Emmy for Executive Producing the hit non-scripted cheerleader series for Netflix, Cheer; produced the AppleTV+ series Bad Sisters alongside Merman Films; and developed and produced the Peacock series Paul T. Goldman alongside Point Grey. Recently their critically acclaimed series Moresnet was released in Belgium and Caviar wrapped shooting Jody Hills’ Famous starring Zac Efron as well as Joey Powers’ Love Language starring Chloë Grace Moretz, Anthony Ramos and Manny Jacinto.
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