Thomas Jane will star as Detective Ted Conkaffey in the Australian-set crime series 'Troppo'. 'Stateless' director Jocelyn Moorhouse will helm the eight-part series, which ABC, Screen Australia, and AGC Studios are financing. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation has given the greenlight to Troppo, a new Oz-set crime series starring Thomas Jane ( The Expanse). Stateless, has come on board to helm the eight-part series. Yolanda Ramke (Netflix’s Cargo) is writing the show based on Candice Fox’s bestselling novel Crimson Lake, the first in Fox's Detective Ted Conkaffey series. Jane will play Detective Conkaffey, an ex-cop accused of a disturbing crime who tries to find a safe haven in the outback of Far North Queensland. Instead, he again becomes entangled in a local private investigations agency and, together with his new partner Amanda Pharrell, sets out to solve a mysterious death.