The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

About The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency

The adventures of Mma Ramotswe, a Motswana woman who starts Botswana's first female-owned detective agency.

BBC One's The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency is a comedy, crime, and mystery series. Its one season of 6 episodes was broadcast from March 2009 to April 2009.

The series is filed under female detective, detective agency, south africa, and botswana. It is adapted from a novel. Jill Scott appears as Mma Precious Ramotswe, Anika Noni Rose as Grace Makutsi, Lucian Msamati as JLB Matekoni, and Desmond Dube as BK.

Production companies include Film Afrika, Mirage Enterprises, and The Weinstein Company. In the United States it streams on HBO Max and HBO Max Amazon Channel.

The Haunting of Hill House, Charmed, and True Blood make useful companions to The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency, all filed under sibling relationship, female protagonist, and dark comedy. It carries a TV-PG rating.