Jane Campion's Top Of The Lake coming to BBC Two

BBC Two has announced atmospheric new drama series Top Of The Lake for 2011, from Oscar-winning writer/director Jane Campion (The Piano, In The Cut).


What's it about?

A twelve-year-old girl stands chest deep in a frozen lake. She is five months pregnant, and she won't say who the father is, insisting it was 'no one'. Then she disappears. Robin Griffin, the investigating detective, will find this the case that tests her to her limits. In the search for Tui she will first have to find herself.

What should we expect?

Top Of The Lake is authored, original drama at its finest, bringing to screen a unique landscape - remote, mountainous New Zealand - in a powerful and haunting story about our search for happiness in a paradise where honest work is hard to find.

Who's it by?

Directed by Jane Campion, and written by Jane Campion and Gerard Lee, the multi-part serial will film in 2011.