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The Blue Rose

The Blue Rose is a New Zealand crime drama television series, which was created by Rachel Lang and James Griffin and produced by South Pacific Pictures. It stars Antonia Prebble as Jane and Siobhan Marshall as Linda. Marshall and Prebble had previously worked together on Outrageous Fortune.

The Blue Rose

  • Mark Beesley
  • Simon Bennett
  • Michael Duignan
  • John Laing

Karl Steven

English

1

  • John Barnett
  • Rachel Lang
  • Chris Bailey

Chris Bailey

Marty Smith

43–45 minutes

TV3

4 February (2013-02-04) –
29 April 2013 (2013-04-29)

The series aired in New Zealand on TV3 from 4 February to 29 April 2013, at 8:30 p.m. for three episodes; it then moved to 9:30 p.m. for three episodes, and then moved again to 9:40 p.m. for five episodes, before moving to 9:45 p.m. on Mondays for the remaining two episodes.

Production[edit]

Funding for the series was approved by NZ On Air in December 2011.[1] The show was cancelled in December 2013, by a radio announcement on Radio New Zealand by TV3 programming boss Mark Caulton.[2]

Plot[edit]

Jane is a humble office temp who takes on a new post at an inner city law firm and soon realises she's not just filling in for a secretary with the flu – she's sitting in a dead woman's chair.


The deceased woman is Rose, whose best friend Linda is convinced that she was murdered despite police reports to the contrary. Linda quickly enlists Jane in her quest to find the truth and together they recruit the IT guy and the lady from payroll and form the Society of the Blue Rose.


With some help from friends on the lowlier rungs of other businesses, the quartet fight high-stakes crimes and shadowy corporate skulduggery to uncover the truth about Rose. They are united in purpose – and tattoos – to seek out further injustices. But proving guilt is always harder than suspecting it.

as Jane March – A Temp P.A. to Simon at Mosely & Loveridge

Antonia Prebble

as Linda Frame – Rose's best friend and godmother to her daughter Nina; manages a courier firm

Siobhan Marshall

Matt Minto as Simon Frost – Jane's boss and Senior Partner at Mosely & Loveridge

Rajeev Varma as Ganesh Nishad – An I.T. manager at Mosely & Loveridge

as Sonya Whitwell – An accountant who used to work at Mosely & Loveridge

Jenny Ludlam

Number includes additional viewers from a 9:30 p.m. rebroadcast airing the same night on TV3 Plus 1.

a

Each episode title is named after a song by .

The Smiths

Broadcast[edit]

In Australia, the show premiered on Gem on 26 November 2013.

Official website

Production website

at IMDb

The Blue Rose

at South Pacific Pictures

The Blue Rose