Go abroad, one show at a time.
Original-language international series will continue to lead Saturday evening programming on BBC Four, as the BBC’s arts and alternative-to-mainstream entertainment channel will be bringing more Euro TV dramas to UK viewers.
Ça alors! Fans of original-language international mystery and drama programs, you can now get your Euro TV on whenever you like with the brand new MHz International Mystery On Demand service. Chouette!
Well, here’s something you don’t see every day: a Euro TV drama series about empowerment and healing. The one I’m referring to is from Spain: Frágiles.
There is no shortage of characters with personal issues in Nordic noir programs, and some certainly have more than others. One that I am intrigued with, and would like to see more of, is the titular lead in the Swedish
Fans of the Arne Dahl television series, it’s time to do a happy dance, because the Swedish hit is currently filming a new season and will return to telly in 2015.
Corpse discovered, check. Troubled detective, check. Nordic noir, not so much. In the Sweden of The Sandhamn Murders (Morden I Sandhamn), the sky is sunny and blue and the waters of the archipelago are warm and inviting while killers are
Chouette! It’s a muti-cultural crime drama weekend here in the US. And across the pond, the Italians are coming, the Italians are coming!
The long-awaited DVD for The Eagle: A Crime Odyssey (Ørnen: En Krimi-Odyssé), Season 1 — the 2005 International Emmy® winner for Best Drama — was finally released yesterday in the US, and it’s such a hit already that Amazon has
Of the ten “Intercrime” novels written by Arne Dahl, five have been adapted into ten television episodes that make for fifteen hours of viewing. Intense, gripping viewing.
A series that I wish would have continued for many more years is coming to a close. (Sigh.) The two episodes that comprise the fourth and final season of the Danish crime drama, Unit One, otherwise known as Rejseholdet, screen
Fans of the “Kurt Wallander” mystery novels are in for a treat: Henning Mankell’s never-published short story, An Event in Autumn, will be available in print in a few weeks.
When the term Nordic Noir comes up, “action-packed” isn’t usually one of the top five or even ten descriptors. Unless you’ve seen the braksucce (smash hit) Swedish crime drama, Johan Falk.