"BBC Four in the spring of 2011. Although subtitled, it attracted more viewers than ""Mad Men"", scored audience appreciation figures of 94%, and has been described as ""the best series currently on TV"". The success has created an interest in all things Danish, and the female detective's Faroese jumper has been the subject of newspaper articles as well as becoming a sought after online item. As well as the UK, DR also sold the series to a number of other broadcasters worldwide, and ""The Killing"" was eventually shown in Australia, Austria, Belgium, Brazil, Germany, Japan, Russia and Spain with varying"
"Lund shoots him dead. As the police arrive at the scene, Lund walks away and removes the bullet-proof vest she had been wearing. ""Forbrydelsen III"", premiered on Danish television on 23 September 2012. It commenced on NRK1 in Norway on Monday 8 October 2012, with an audience of 436,000. Series 3 on BBC Four in the UK began on 17 November 2012 with 1.04 million viewers. This final ten-part series begins with the murder of a sailor. Sarah Lund's investigation turns to the financial and governmental communities during the global financial crisis. Lund is now a Chief Inspector but has"
"Sofie Gråbøl Sofie Gråbøl (; born 30 July 1968) is a Danish actress. She has starred in a number of films, with her breakthrough role in the 1986 Danish film ""Early Spring"", directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen, playing the lead role in the film version of Tove Ditlevsen's novel ""Barndommens gade"" when she was 17 years old. On television she has starred in ""Taxa"" and ""Nikolaj og Julie"". Gråbøl has become known in Denmark for playing emotional roles, but she achieved international fame as a detectivethe cool and distant lead character Inspector Sarah Lund in all three series of ""The Killing"""
"network AMC. Søren Sveistrup, series creator and head writer, worked closely with lead actress Sofie Gråbøl throughout the writing process to successfully develop the character of Detective Inspector Sarah Lund. Gråbøl, in particular, became eager to defend her character. Gråbøl had a history of playing emotionally demonstrative characters on Danish televisionshe had worked with Sveistrup before on the TV-series ""Nikolaj og Julie""he approached her direct to play the part of Sarah Lund before work on the script began. Despite her insistence that she wanted to play an ""isolated person [who is] unable to communicate"" Gråbøl initially found it difficult to"
"the character was to be emotionally isolated. At one point, the writers were considering having Lund have an affair with one of the suspects. She fought this plot line, explaining that Lund was a female Clint Eastwood and it was removed. It was originally intended that Sarah Lund should die but this was changed half way through the series. Gråbøl had become known in Denmark for playing emotional characters and the role of the cool and distant Lund was a stark departure. The series was a huge success in Denmark with over half the population watching. Although already well known"
"of her mother, she has worked continuously since then. She said, ""I thought it would be like a summer holiday job ...then one film led to another and suddenly I was an actor and I never really felt that I had made the decision ... I felt at home in the language of acting."""" Her breakthrough role was in the 1986 Danish film directed by Astrid Henning-Jensen, ""Early Spring"". Gråbøl is famous in Denmark with a wide body of work from comedy to Shakespeare. In 2007, Gråbøl portrayed the role of police Detective Sarah Lund obsessed with solving the sadistic"
"Inspector Sarah Lund is in her last day with the Copenhagen police force; about to move to Sweden to join her fiancé and transfer to the Swedish police. Everything changes when 19-year-old Nanna Birk Larsen is found raped and brutally murdered. Sarah heads the investigation and is teamed up with her replacement, Detective Inspector Jan Meyer. Troels Hartmann, politician, is in the midst of a hard-fought mayoral campaign when evidence links him to the murder. The girl's family and friends struggle to cope with their loss. Over a span of 20 days suspect upon suspect is sought out as violence"
"killing of a schoolgirl in the Danish television series ""The Killing"" (, literally ""The Crime""). Producers of the show envisioned breaking the clichés of female characters usually portrayed on television and film. Lund was to be a driven and relentless detective without her primary concern being for her physical appearance or sexuality. Gråbøl was involved early on in the development process of the series and had numerous discussions with writer and series creator Søren Sveistrup. Her input was integral to the creation of the character, from keeping the character's past a mystery to the choice of clothing and especially that"
"Sofia Helin and Thure Lindhardt as the two protagonists of the series. The names, along with the Swedish and Danish titles, were separated by three lines, indicating the third series (they had been separated by one line in the first, and two in the second series). When the fourth series started broadcasting on 1 January 2018 in the Nordic countries, Rosenfeld confirmed that this is the final series; it was written so as to bring the previous story-lines to satisfactory conclusion. The opening and closing theme is a cut of the song ""Hollow Talk"" by Copenhagen-based Danish chamber pop band"
"film ""Headhunters"" (Norwegian, ""Hodejegerne""), an action thriller based on the 2008 Jo Nesbø novel of the same name. Her subsequent roles have included the role of Sara in the short ""Sandslottet"" (2014), and as the character Tonje Sandvik in the drama series ""Frikjent"" (2015) alongside Tobias Santelmann. She appears as the murderous Johanne Rønningen in ""Black Widows"" (2016), a remake of the Finnish series ""Mustat Lesket"", currently in distribution by Acorn TV and is mentioned with regard to future roles in the James Bond movie franchise. , there was a report that Lund had contracted with the publisher Samlaget to"
"of 20 fifty-minutes episodes, which follow the police investigation into the murder of a young woman from its commencement on 3 November to its conclusion on 22 November. The first ten episodes were shown on DR1 each Sunday from early January to the middle of March 2007 and the intention was to show the remaining ten episodes in January–March 2008; however it was so popular in Denmark that in early March it was announced that the final ten episodes would be brought forward to the autumn of 2007; they were shown from late September to late November 2007. Detective Chief"
"for interviews and offers to work in Britain, most of which she had to decline due to her busy work schedule. However, she had a cameo in the BBC comedy ""Absolutely Fabulous"" playing her character Detective Lund. In the UK, Gråbøl was named Best Actress at the Crime Thriller Awards and the show won the 2011 BAFTA for Best International TV Show. The BAFTA was awarded to Gråbøl, creator and writer Søren Sveistrup, producer Piv Bernth and director Birger Larsen. In Britain the series had sub-titles but for the American audience it was remade. Commenting on the first series of"
"Rejseholdet Rejseholdet (; international title: Unit One) is a Danish television crime drama series, broadcast on DR1, that ran for four series from October 1, 2000 to January 1, 2004. The series, produced by Danmarks Radio, revolves around an elite mobile police task force that travel around Denmark, assisting each local police force solve serious crimes. The series starred Charlotte Fich as DCI Ingrid Dahl, an ambitious detective who is promoted to the role of unit commander seemingly on the basis of being female. The series co-starred Mads Mikkelsen and Lars Brygmann as Sergeants Allan Fischer and Thomas La Cour."
"in Denmark, Gråbøl now found herself stopped on the street as fans of the show wanted to know the secret of the killer. The series was then played throughout Europe. With the show's success, it played in back-to-back weekend installments in the UK on BBC4. With no promotion, the show became a word-of-mouth success and even topped ""Mad Men"" in the ratings. She had been a famous actress in Denmark for twenty five years when she suddenly, to her surprise, achieved cult status in Britain. Even the shape-concealing jumper (sweater) she wore in the show became iconic. She received requests"
"as per the original broadcast. The releases form part of Arrow Films' ""Nordic Noir"" strand of releases. The first series was released on January 21, 2013. The second series followed on May 27, 2013. The third series was released on January 6, 2014, followed by the fourth and final series on July 7, 2014. Rejseholdet Rejseholdet (; international title: Unit One) is a Danish television crime drama series, broadcast on DR1, that ran for four series from October 1, 2000 to January 1, 2004. The series, produced by Danmarks Radio, revolves around an elite mobile police task force that travel"
"were all made available on the TV4's subscription video on demand service TV4 Play Premium in June 2014. In October and November 2014, the six films were shown on TV4's DTTV service. On 11 December 2013, BBC Four announced it had bought the British broadcasting rights to ""Crimes of Passion"", with the series premiering on BBC Four on 30 August 2014. The films have been described as ""Mad Men"" meeting ""The Killing"". Set mainly in Bergslagen in the 1950s, the films follow Puck Ekstedt (Tuva Novotny), her boyfriend (and later husband) Einar Bure (Linus Wahlgren), nicknamed ""Eje"", and their friend,"
"2012, she has become famous outside Sweden as a result of the successful crime drama series, ""The Bridge"", in which she played Saga Norén, the homicide detective from Malmö.<ref name=""love/hate""></ref> In the UK, the series attracted more than a million viewers per episode and she has been called a role model for women with Asperger syndrome. She said she would appear in a fourth series. The fourth season began airing in Sweden and Denmark on 1 January 2018 and in May 2018 in the UK. In 2015, she starred in a Danish science fiction film called ""Fang Rung"" and acted"
"searches, the dismembered bodies have never been found. Lundin's father, Ole, was sentenced to four months in prison for theft of items owned by Pedersen. Peter Lundin was found not to be insane. He initially served his sentence in the Herstedvester prison in Albertslund near Copenhagen, but was later transferred to the new State Prison of East Jutland, near Horsens, then was sent back to Herstedvester prison. Following the program on TV 2 in 1994, many women contacted Lundin, and he married one of these, named Tina, while still serving in his US prison. On 29 September 2008, it was"
"to the original Danish series, executive producer Veena Sud explained, ""We're creating our own world. We are using the Danish series as a blueprint, but we are kind of diverging and creating our own world, our world of suspects and, potentially, ultimately who killed Rosie Larsen."" Sud describes the series as ""slow-burn storytelling in a sense that every moment that we don't have to prettify or gloss over or make something necessarily easy to digest, that we're able to go to all sorts of places that are honest, and dark, and beautiful and tragic, in a way that is how"
"Danish series, executive producer Veena Sud explained, ""We're creating our own world. We are using the Danish series as a blueprint, but we are kind of diverging and creating our own world, our world of suspects and, potentially, ultimately who killed Rosie Larsen."" Sud describes the series as ""slow-burn storytelling in a sense that every moment that we don't have to prettify or gloss over or make something necessarily easy to digest, that we're able to go to all sorts of places that are honest, and dark, and beautiful and tragic, in a way that is how a story should"
"photographer Daniel Rye, who lived as a hostage within the terrorist organisation of Islamic State in Syria for more than a year. In Germany and the Netherlands, the series is also known as ""Countdown Copenhagen"". On 2 April 2017, the series premiered in Denmark on Kanal 5, and was released on DVD in Germany on 19 October 2017. In the United Kingdom, BBC4 broadcast the first four episodes during March 2018. The BBC pulled the series from their schedule for 24 March only following the terrorist attack in Carcassonne and continued on 31 March. The team responsible for filming the"
"fri"" (2008), ""Hævnens gudinde"" (2009), ""Dødsengelen"" (2010), and ""De glemte piger"" (2011). Until 2008, Blædel's books were published in Denmark by Lindhardt and Ringhof. Since 2008, her publisher has been . Blædel's publications in other Scandinavian countries include: In May, 2013, Grand Central Publishing bought ""The Forgotten Girls"" and the next book in the Louise Rick series. She has been voted Most Popular Author in Denmark four times, received several prizes, Sara Blædel Sara Blædel (born 6 August 1964), is a Danish author. She is best known for her crime fiction novels featuring Louise Rick. Blædel founded the ""Sara B"""
"located in Copenhagen, Denmark. Generally the main story revolves around Casper (in later seasons referred to as by his full name, Casper Christensen) who is usually in trouble and tries to fix it with a lie, but always ends up getting caught. Issues of relationships and sex are often central to the show, and topics such as paedophilia and other taboos are touched upon often with a rich imagery (mainly by the Casper's boss Niels Buckingham). The show originated on a cable-channel targeting young adults (TV2 Zulu) and successfully made it to the parent, nationwide channel TV2 without any censoring."
"dubbed into German, in December 2015. The final series aired in the original English on BBC One in May 2016. Critics have written positively of the series, which has won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award (Best Actor for Branagh) and six British Academy Television Awards, including Best Drama Series. The series is based on Kurt Wallander (Branagh), a detective and police inspector in the small town of Ystad, Sweden. Branagh describes Wallander as ""an existentialist who is questioning what life is about and why he does what he does every day, and for whom acts of violence never become normal."
"by DR, the Danish public broadcaster which had previously produced ""The Killing"". The series stars Sidse Babett Knudsen as Birgitte Nyborg Christensen; Birgitte Hjort Sørensen as Katrine Fønsmark, a TV1 news anchor; Pilou Asbæk as Kasper Juul, a spin doctor; Søren Malling as Torben Friis, news editor for TV1; Mikael Birkkjær as Birgitte's husband, Phillip; and Benedikte Hansen as Hanne Holm, a journalist. Three series, each comprising ten episodes, have been made. The first series was shown in Denmark in the autumn of 2010, the second in the autumn of 2011, and the third beginning 1 January 2013. In the"
"The Bridge (2011 TV series) The Bridge (; ) is a Scandinavian noir crime television series created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt. A joint creative and financed production between Sweden's Sveriges Television and Denmark's DR, it has been shown in more than 100 countries. The first series begins with the discovery of a dead body exactly on the centre of the Øresund Bridge, which links Malmö with Copenhagen, necessitating a joint investigation. Sofia Helin, as the Swedish police detective Saga Norén, stars in all four series. In the first and second, her Danish counterpart, Martin Rohde, is played by Kim"
"strike the right balance for the emotionally-distant Lund and then realised that the only people she knew, who were like the character, were men. As a result, she began ""acting like a man"" until the character took shape. During filming of the first series Sveistrup also refused to reveal the identity of the murderer or even specific plot points to members of the cast, including Sofie Gråbøl. The actors would receive the scripts only on an episode-by-episode basis just moments before shooting was scheduled to begin. Only Gråbøl was told that she was not the killer. The first series consists"
"murder and reveals secrets about the Larsen family as well as a possible conspiracy within the campaign race and the Seattle police department. The Larsen murder case gets closed with the discovery of those involved in it. A year after the Rosie Larsen case, Stephen Holder searches for a runaway girl and uncovers a string of murders connected to one of Sarah Linden's previous murder investigations. Linden, no longer a detective, must return to both a career and a case she had put behind her. The fourth season features detectives Sarah Linden and Stephen Holder handling the fallout of their"
"Bodnia, and in the third and fourth Thure Lindhardt plays Henrik Sabroe. The first series was broadcast on the Swedish SVT1 and Danish DR1 during the autumn of 2011, and on the United Kingdom's BBC Four the following spring. The second series aired in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland during the autumn of 2013, and in the UK in early 2014. The third series was broadcast in Denmark, Sweden and Finland during the autumn of 2015 and in the UK in November 2015. The fourth series premiered on 1 January 2018 in the Nordic countries and was broadcast weekly"
"series and titled ""The Killing: Book One"" was published by Macmillan in 2012. The book was written by British author David Hewson. This was followed by ""The Killing: Book Two"" in January 2013, and ""The Killing: Book Three"" in February 2014. The Killing (Danish TV series) The Killing () is a Danish police procedural drama television series created by and produced by DR in co-production with ZDF Enterprises. It was first broadcast on the Danish national television channel DR1 on 7 January 2007, and has since been transmitted in many other countries worldwide. The series is set in Copenhagen and"
"series was filmed on location in various parts of northern Europe, from Berlin (Germany) and Copenhagen (Denmark) to Stockholm (Sweden), Oslo (Norway) and other locations including Iceland. The series is named after the lead character, a half-Icelandic half-Danish police officer named Hallgrim Ørn Hallgrimsson, nicknamed ""Ørnen"" (the eagle). In the first episode, a new international criminal investigative unit is being formed under Thea Nellemann (Ghita Nørby), and Hallgrimsson (Jens Albinus) is persuaded to take the job as the lead investigator for the unit. He puts together a small investigation team that are experts in their respective fields. Their cases cross"
"Sara Blædel Sara Blædel (born 6 August 1964), is a Danish author. She is best known for her crime fiction novels featuring Louise Rick. Blædel founded the ""Sara B"" crime fiction publishing company in 1993, and in 1995 she started to work as a journalist. She is the daughter of journalist Leif Blædel and actress Annegrethe Nissen. She was born in Copenhagen and grew up in Hvalsø Denmark. Her novels have been published in 31 countries. Blædel's first novel was ""Grønt støv"", first published in Denmark in 2004, followed by ""Kald mig prinsesse"" (2005), ""Kun ét liv"" (2007), ""Aldrig mere"
"to track down serial killers and relentlessly seeks the truth behind the disappearance of her brother that she thinks is linked to his stepfather, Judge Howard Burgess. In January 2012, the A&E television channel announced that it had bought the rights to develop a U.S. version of the Danish series, ""Those Who Kill"". A pilot episode began filming in Pittsburgh in December 2012, produced by Fox 21 and written by Glen Morgan, with Chloë Sevigny starring as Pittsburgh Police homicide detective Catherine Jensen, and James D'Arcy as forensic psychologist Thomas Schaeffer. In April 2013, A&E announced that it had greenlit"