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Why not? (August 2012)

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TH
Thinker
dvboy posted:
It's not just Scandinavian drama on BBC4. They have already shown three series of the brilliant Spiral which is French and Inspector Montalbano from Italy since 2008. I believe they have a German drama to show soon.


Great, I had missed that. ITV3 has been showing Those Who Kill, another Danish crime series. This is progressing nicely.

BBC Four will start showing a good Norwegian comedy drama called "Lilyhammer" next Tuesday. It stars Steve Van Zandt as a mobster who gets relocated to Lillehammer and starts a new life. Highly recommended.
DV
dvboy
Missed the one on ITV3 - last place I'd expect to see it.
NG
noggin Founding member
dvboy posted:
Missed the one on ITV3 - last place I'd expect to see it.


Yep - think they were jumping on the bandwagon - but a good thing even so. "Den som dręber" aka "Those Who Kill" was a bit more 'commercial' and a bit less 'angsty' in places. I watched it on DVD before it aired in the UK and still enjoyed it.

Slightly strange in that I know of the lead actor - Jakob Cedergren - from the Swedish crime drama called 'The Sandhamn Murders' - where he acted in Swedish not Danish (It was a ratings smash for TV4 - and luckily they're now shooting more of them). He's a Swedish-born Dane - who speaks both languages fluently. (That's more unusual than you might think - as because of the mutual intelligibility between Swedish, Danish and Norwegian, most people don't need to learn another of the languages - they just 'understand enough' not to need to)

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