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‘Three Pines’ Showrunner Behind TV Series About “Emotional Con Woman” Samantha Azzopardi Based On Hit RTÉ Podcast
A Samantha Azzopardi TV show based on 'Finding Samantha' RTE podcast is coming from 'Three Pines' Showrunner Emilia di Girolamo
Emilia di GirolamoKeeper Pictures EXCLUSIVE: Could the scarcely believable story of fraudster Samantha Azzopardi, who created more than 100 false identities, become the next big podcast to screen adaptation? She was behind Prime Video’s buzzy Three Pines starring Alfred Molina, which was axed after one season, and also wrote and executive produced Deceit for Channel 4, based on the controversial honeytrap at the heart of the investigation into the 1992 murder of Rachel Nickell, along with being head writer and showrunner on Sky’s The Tunnel: Vengeance. Di Girolamo said: “Samantha Azzopardi embodies a new breed of ’emotional con woman’ trading in attention and sympathy and her story sits perfectly within our cultural fascination with complex female criminals.
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