{"id":294007,"date":"2026-02-12T10:18:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:18:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294007\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T10:18:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T10:18:07","slug":"kidman-lee-curtis-lead-new-crime-thriller-scarpetta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/294007\/","title":{"rendered":"Kidman, Lee Curtis lead new crime thriller Scarpetta"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new crime thriller series will feature an all-star cast including Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis and Bobby Cannavale.<\/p>\n<p>Prime Video has unveiled the official trailer for Scarpetta, which is based on American crime writer Patricia Cornwell&#8217;s bestselling Kay Scarpetta novels.<\/p>\n<p>The books have sold more than 120 million copies worldwide since the character\u2019s debut in 1990.<\/p>\n<p>The series will premiere on 11 March, and stars Kidman as medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, while Curtis plays her sister, Dorothy Farinelli.<\/p>\n<p>Cannavale stars as Detective Pete Marino, while Simon Baker is FBI profiler Benton Wesley and Ariana DeBose is Scarpetta\u2019s tech-savvy niece Lucy Farinelli Watson.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Scarepette_Poster\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0023e216-614.jpg\"\/><br \/>\nThe series will premiere on 11 March<\/p>\n<p>The series features a dual narrative, which explores Scarpetta\u2019s journey from her beginnings as a chief medical examiner in the late 1990s to her present-day return to her hometown, where she resumes her former position while investigating a grisly murder.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With skilled hands and an unnerving eye, this unrelenting medical examiner is determined to serve as the voice of the victims, unmask a serial killer, and prove that her career-making case from 28 years prior isn\u2019t also her undoing,&#8221; producers said.<\/p>\n<p>Rosy McEwen, Amanda Righetti, Jake Cannavale (Bobby Cannavale\u2019s son) and Hunter Parrish, portray the past versions of Kidman, Curtis, Cannavale and Baker\u2019s characters respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Source: Press Association<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new crime thriller series will feature an all-star cast including Nicole Kidman, Jamie Lee Curtis and Bobby&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294008,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[93,61,60,270],"class_list":{"0":"post-294007","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-movies"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294007"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294007\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}