MHz Choice is closing out the year with several brand-new Euro TV series and new seasons of viewer favorites, plus more English-dubbed content.
The holiday season is upon us, so let’s eat, drink, make merry, and watch some fab Euro TV in December on MHz Choice, which will be bringing us new shows from Belgium, France, Italy, and Sweden, and well as new seasons of fan-favorite series from Austria, France, and Norway.
In addition, MHz Choice will be debuting a South African true-crime documentary called Stella Murders. Read about it here.
Details about the Euro TV premieres are below.
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NEW EURO TV SERIES & SEASONS
Alice Nevers: Season 11 (France)
Marine Delterme (Coco Chanel) and Jean-Michel Tinivelli (Murder in Tahiti) return as criminal prosecutor Alice Nevers and her personal and professional partner, police captain Fred Marquand, in a new season of this crime drama, derived from the long-running series Le juge est une femme. (Video is from Season 10)
Alice Nevers: Season 11 premieres Tuesday, December 2.
Marion (France)
Inspired by the “Edwige Marion” crime novels by Danielle Thiery, this cop drama series follows Commander Edwige Marion (Louise Monot, All This I Will Give to You, Murder in Saint Malo), who relocates from Lyon to Paris with her adopted daughter to join the police’s railway brigade. Her team covers the Gare du Nord, where she must navigate the dark underbelly of the railway and tackle its most brutal criminal cases with her own uncompromising style, all while striving to be both a good mother and a good cop.
(The trailer is in French. To read English subtitles, turn on closed captions (CC) and, under settings, change the language to “French (auto generated >> English.”))
Marion premieres Tuesday, December 9.
“Edwige Marion” novels by Danielle Thiery (French edition)
State of Happiness: Season 3 (Lykkeland) (Norway)
In the third and final season of this award-winning period drama, Anna (Anne Regine Ellingsæter), now a widowed mother and tech millionaire, wants more challenges, so she leaves her secure position at the Oil Directorate to join a start-up called Komponent, led by the charismatic engineer, Sture (Herman Flesvig, Beforeigners). Her brother, Rein (Ole Christoffer Ertvaag, Home for Christmas), an offshore worker who’s spiraling into radicalization, joins her in the venture. But financial struggles lead to tension between the siblings, when Rein suggests selling their family farm to fund the company.
Meanwhile, the glittering life of multi-restaurant operator Toril (Malene Wadel) begins to shatter under the weight of her addiction to alcohol and drugs. And her husband, Christian (Paal Herman Ims, Troll), heir to the Nymans’ diving company, is forced to confront the deadly cost of his family’s success.
State of Happiness: Season 3 premieres Tuesday, December 9.
Pacific Criminal: Season 3 (O.P.J.) (France)
In the third season of this crime drama, Commander Clarissa Hoarau (Yaëlle Trules, Cut) and her team of officers are called to a distillery, the lagoon, sugarcane fields, and other crime scenes on Réunion Island, where they investigate the on-air murder of an influencer, the discovery of a dead body in an elderly woman’s freezer, and the death of a surfer, amongst other cases. (Video is from Season 2)
Costarring Antoine Stip (Tandem), Nathan Dellemme (Spiral), and Marielle Karabeu, Pacific Criminal: Season 3 premieres Tuesday, December 16.
Stranded (Vite sospese) (Italy)
Set in the Vanoi Valley, this mystery drama stars Alessandro Preziosi (Detective De Luca, Masantonio, The Lying Life of Adults) as Giovanni Lo Bianco, a widowed financial broker who, along with his children, Riccardo (Federico Russo, Don Matteo) and Elena (Giulia Patrignani, Paradise), takes a vacation at a luxury hotel at an exclusive ski resort in Trentino during the holiday season. But on Christmas Eve, an avalanche engulfs the valley. With communications disrupted and power lines downed, everyone here is left completely isolated and cut off from the rest of the world. Amongst them are assorted characters, from untrustworthy authorities and resort staff who are prepared to do anything, to participants in a witness protection program… and a murderer.
(The trailer is in Italian. To read English subtitles, turn on closed captions (CC) and, under settings, change the language to “Italian (auto generated >> English.”))
Costarring Rike Schmid (Maltese), Marco Rossetti (No Place Like Home), Aurora Ruffino (Medici), Caterina Shulha (The King), and Eugenio Franceschini (Màkari), Stranded premieres Tuesday, December 16.
Good People (Des gens bien) (France-Belgium)
This dark comedy thriller is about good people caught in a spiral. There’s 30-something Belgian couple Tom (Lucas Meister, The Break), a policeman, and Linda (Bérangère McNeese, HIP – High Intellectual Potential), a beautician, who, facing bankruptcy, embark on a get-rich-quick scam, only to have it go up in flames. Another is Philippe (Michaël Abiteboul, The Returned), a French gendarme with whom Linda had an affair. He investigates Tom’s car accident and soon becomes suspicious that it was actually a cover-up for murder, but no one believes him.
(The trailer is in French. To read English subtitles, turn on closed captions (CC) and, under settings, change the language to “French (auto generated >> English.”))
Costarring Dominique Pinon (Cassandre), Peter Van den Begin (Pandora), and India Hair (Captain Marleau), amongst others, Good People premieres Tuesday, December 23.
Tandem: Season 8 (France)
Closing out this popular mystery series is this two-part movie event, in which very-in-love ex-spouses and detective colleagues Léa (Astrid Veillon, Perfect Murders) and Paul (Stéphane Blancafort, Innocent) go on a family vacation far from Montpellier and the police station, intending to make the most of this time together. But when they discover an arm along a hiking trail, they are compelled to investigate.
It doesn’t take long for them to realize that the limb is connected to a body found in the marshes of the Thau Lagoon. Analysis reveals that the body is that of Ludivine Camus, a former friend of Léa and Paul’s ex-girlfriend, who died twenty-eight years ago. Someone intentionally put her arm on their path, but why? To uncover the truth and solve this case, Léa and Paul will have to reach well back into their past and reopen the investigation into Ludivine’s death, which was classified as a suicide at the time.
(The trailer is in French. To read English subtitles, turn on closed captions (CC) and, under settings, change the language to “French (auto generated >> English.”))
The cast of the series finale includes François-Dominique Blin (All This I Will Give to You), Titouan Laporte (Magellan), Sarah-Cheyenne Santoni (Master Crimes), Patrick Descamps (Cassandre), Nelly Lawson (The Art of Crime), Alban Casterman (The Traveller), and Isabelle Tanakil (Cassandre), amongst others.
Tandem: Season 8 premieres Tuesday, December 23.
Backwoods Crime: Season 3 (Austria)
This “ORF Landkrimi” murder mystery anthology series returns with more feature-length episodes set in different parts of Austria. (Trailer is from Season 2)
Backwoods Crime: Season 3 premieres Tuesday, December 30.
Blackwater (Händelser vid vatten) (Sweden)
Based on Kerstin Ekman’s internationally best-selling novel Blackwater, this period mystery-crime drama is set across two time periods. On a midsummer evening in 1973, two tourists are found murdered in a tent near the small, isolated town of Blackwater in northern Sweden. Two decades later, the crimes remain unsolved, leading to yet another murder…
Starring Pernilla August (Young Royals, The Legacy), Rolf Lassgård (A Man Called Ove, Wallander), Alba August (The Rain, The Sandhamn Murders), and Asta Kamma August (The New Nurses, The Kingdom), amongst others, Blackwater premieres Tuesday, December 30.
ENGLISH-DUBBED VERSIONS OF EURO TV SERIES
Arctic Circle: Season 4 (Ivalo) (Finland) — English dub
In the opener of the fourth season of this hit Nordic noir crime drama, Police Chief Nina Kautsalo (Iina Kuustonen, Syke, Roba) investigates a major incident that turns out to be the largest mass murder in Finnish criminal history. As she continues her inquiries, evidence points to the gruesome crime being connected to a rare comet shining in the sky… and to a religious sect in Ivalo… (Video is subtitled, not dubbed.)
Returning cast members include Kari Ketonen (Idiomatic), Pihla Viitala (Deadwind), Venla Ronkainen, Mikko Leppilampi (Freezing Embrace), Janne Kataja (Swingers), Elena Leeve (Maria Kallio), and Mikko Nousiainen (Enemy of the People).
New cast members include Frank Bourk (His Dark Materials), Charlotta Bradley (The Dry), Kati Outinen (Peacemaker), Matti Onnismaa (Helsinki Crimes), Ilkka Villi (Reindeer Mafia), Santeri Kinnunen (Bordertown), Arttu Kapulainen (Deadwind), Jonna Järnefelt (Shadow Lines), and Ella Lymi (The Paradise).
The English-dubbed version of Arctic Circle: Season 4 premieres Tuesday, December 2.
Arctic Circle: Seasons 1-3 DVD
Deadly Tropics: Season 5 (Tropiques criminels) (France)
This fun, female-driven police dramedy mystery series follows detectives Mélissa Sainte-Rose (Sonia Rolland, Murder in the Somme) and Gaëlle Crivelli (Béatrice de la Boulaye, The Returned) as they investigate crimes in sun-drenched Martinique. (Video is subtitled, not dubbed.)
The English-dubbed version of Deadly Tropics: Season 5 premieres Tuesday, December 16.
State of Happiness: Season 3 (Lykkeland) (Norway) — English dub
See description above. The English-dubbed version of State of Happiness: Season 3 premieres Tuesday, December 30.
Unless otherwise noted, all of the above programs are shown in their original language(s) with English subtitles and will premiere in the US and Canada on MHz Choice and its digital channels, including MHz Choice on Prime Video Channels, starting on the dates shown above. (Note that scheduling changes can occur at any time and without prior notice.)
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