Toplining the June 2024 slate on MHz Choice is the highly-anticipated fourth season of Babylon Berlin, the first time it will be shown in North America.
Coming to MHz Choice in June are the new Finnish satire series Stop Nyqvist, a new season of Italian detective drama Fosca Innocenti, more seasons of Danish and Finnish cop dramas Unit One and Bordertown, the addition of Danish crime drama The Eagle, another English-dubbed season of French crime drama Spiral, and the never-before-seen-in-North America fourth season of German mystery-crime drama Babylon Berlin.
Bordertown: Season 3 (Sorjonen) (Finland)
In the third and final season of this award-winning mystery-crime drama series, detective Kari Sorjonen (Ville Virtanen, The Truth Will Out, Rebecka Martinsson) faces a personal tragedy and juggles concerns about his family’s future with a spate of new crimes, including those committed by an adversary who’s been studying Kari’s past cases.
Costarring Matleena Kuusniemi (Maria Kallio), Anu Sinisalo (Arctic Circle), Ilkka Villi (Invisible Heroes), and Matti Laine (Look of a Killer), Bordertown: Season 3 begins streaming Tuesday, June 4.
The Eagle: Season 1 (Ørnen: En krimi-odyssé) (Denmark)
Written by Mai Brostrøm (Modus) and Peter Thorsboe (Unit One), this terrific Scandi crime drama series revolves around Hallgrim Hallgrimsson (Jens Albinus, Borgen, Deutschland 83), a half-Icelandic, half-Danish detective known as “The Eagle” (Ørnen), owing to his keen insight and abilities to assess situations and take quick actions. He is at once a confident and competent cop, a charismatic lady’s man, and a tormented soul racked by flashbacks of past traumas and held captive by surreal visions and interactions with persons living and dead who both guide and taunt him.
Hallgrim is chosen to be the chief investigator of a new Danish law enforcement unit tasked with bringing cross-border network criminals to justice, such as those that traffic drugs, weapons, humans and human organs, and engage in fraud, extortion, and terrorism. The formidable Thea Nellemann (Ghita Nørby, Unit One) is the unit head who oversees operations and the investigations that Hallgrim and his elite team conduct, including prosecutor/legal expert Marie Wied (Marina Bouras, Love & Anarchy), white-collar crime investigator Villy Frandsen (Steen Stig Lommer, The New Nurses), street-savvy detective Nazim Talawi (Janus Nabil Bakrawi, The Killing), tech whiz Michael Kristensen (David Owe, Seaside Hotel), and forensic technician Ditte Hansen (Susan Olsen, When the Dust Settles).
Similar to Odysseus, the hero of Greek mythology, Hallgrim has no home to speak of (he lives in a hotel), although he tries to physically and symbolically return “home.” These attempts are thwarted by an unwillingness to confront the darkness within him and by the crimes that he is called on to solve in Denmark, the other Scandinavian countries, and across Europe. Whether or not he is aware of his likeness to the mythical hero, he still gives each case a code name based on mythological characters from Homer’s The Odyssey and The Iliad.
The Eagle: Season 1 begins streaming Tuesday, June 4.
Unit One: Season 2 (Rejseholdet) (Denmark)
This awesome cop drama returns with seven episodes in which the mobile Unit One team tackles new cases across Denmark, including the kidnapping of a 9-year-old boy from Troense; death threats against a lawyer and his family in Næstved; the murder of a factory owner in Silkeborg; the death of a woman from a suspicious house fire in Kulhuse; the murders of a Turkish mother and son in Odense; and the discovery of a boy’s dead body in a forest near Hellebæk.
The Unit One team includes unit commander Ingrid Dahl (Charlotte Fich, Prisoner), interrogation lead Allan Fischer (Mads Mikkelsen, Hannibal), crime scene specialist Thomas La Cour (Lars Brygmann, Dicte), generalist cop Jens Peter “IP” Sørensen (Waage Sandø, Follow the Money), and reports officer Gaby Levin (Trine Pallesen, The Killing), along with senior police official Ulf Thomsen (Erik Wedersøe, The Kingdom) and Unit One driver Johnny Olsen (Lars Bom, The Sommerdahl Murders).
Unit One: Season 2 begins streaming Tuesday, June 11.
Fosca Innocenti: Season 2 (Italy)
Vanessa Incontrada (Captain Maria) returns as vice police chief Fosca Innocenti in the new season of this crime drama, which finds Fosca and her all-female team of detectives solving crimes in the charming Tuscan city of Arezzo. (Video is from Season 1)
Costars include Francesco Arca (The Promised Life), Desirèe Noferini (Paradise), Cecilia Dazzi (La porta rossa), Giorgia Trasselli (Signora Volpe), Francesco Leone (Che Dio ci aiuti), Claudio Bigagli (The New Pope), and Irene Ferri (Sisters).
Fosca Innocenti: Season 2 premieres Tuesday, June 18.
Spiral: Season 6 (Engrenages) (France) (English dub)
In this season of the gritty, International Emmy® Award-winning crime drama, Laure (Caroline Proust, Notre-Dame) returns to work earlier than expected, starting a complex new investigation with Gilou (Thierry Godard, Germinal) and Tintin (Fred Bianconi, Chronicles of the Sun) after a human torso is discovered in a pile of garbage in Paris’s 20th arrondissement. It isn’t the only corpse they’ll come across.
Meanwhile, Joséphine (Audrey Fleurot, A French Village) is still mourning, but nonetheless tempted by a high-profile criminal trial, which means collaborating with police attorney Eric Edelman (Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Kabul Kitchen). And Judge Roban (Philippe Duclos, The Art of Crime) faces a health crisis.
The English-dubbed version of Spiral: Season 6 begins streaming Tuesday, June 18. (Rescheduled from April)
Stop Nyqvist (Pysäyttäkää Nyqvist) (Finland)
In this dark, quirky, and hard-hitting satire, Aleksis Nyqvist (Antti Tuomas Heikkinen, Kotka 10, Syke), an unassuming office assistant at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, is inadvertently thrust into Finland’s national affairs — as head of the Finnish secret service. After accidentally provoking a political security crisis that has Helsinki swarming with secret agents, serial killers, and incompetent bureaucrats hell-bent on starting World War III, it’s up to Nyqvist to save the day and stop the world from exploding into flames!
Costars in the eight-episode series include Marc Gassot (Arctic Circle), Sonja Kuittinen (Shadow Lines), Jarkko Pajunen (Arctic Circle), and Minna Suuronen (Bordertown).
Stop Nyqvist premieres Tuesday, June 18.
Babylon Berlin: Season 4 (Germany)
Based on the novel Goldstein, the third title in Volker Kutscher’s best-selling “Gereon Rath Mysteries” book series, the fourth season of Babylon Berlin traverses grand exhibition fights in the boxing clubs of the Berlin underworld, and all-out dancing marathons in the Moka Efti and the catacombs of the Red Castle. Gereon Rath’s (Volker Bruch, Generation War) investigations lead him into the realm of boxing — and, politically speaking, uncomfortably close to Hitler’s SA. The Nazis’ march to power is in full swing, but there are still some on the side of the rule of law.
Meanwhile, gangster Abraham Goldstein (Mark Ivanir, Litvinenko) has returned home from America to find a stolen jewel that once belonged to his father. The search leads him from his Jewish relatives in the Scheunenviertel to the premises of the Nyssen family. Rather incidentally, Goldstein sparks a gang war during the course of which the fabric of the underworld changes from the ground up. And Commissioner Rath has no idea that the pact with the devil will rekindle the fight against his inner demons. The journey into the night has only just begun…
Costars include Liv Lisa Fries (Freud’s Last Session), Lars Eidinger (All the Light We Cannot See), Fritzi Haberlandt (Deutschland 86/89), Benno Fürmann (Biohackers), Hannah Herzsprung (Dogs of Berlin), and Hanno Koffler (Pagan Peak), amongst others.
Babylon Berlin: Season 4 premieres Tuesday, June 25.
All of the above titles are set to premiere/begin streaming in the US and Canada on MHz Choice and its digital channels, including MHz Choice on Prime Channels, starting on the dates shown above. (Scheduling changes can occur at any time and without prior notice.)
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“Gereon Rath Mysteries” novels by Volker Kutscher
