She accompanies her replacement, Jan Meyer, in an enquiry into the disappearance of a nineteen year old woman, Nanna Birk Larsen.
As the series opens, Lund is on the verge of leaving Copenhagen to join the Swedish police force and be with her fiancé and son.
The main protagonist of the programme was Detective Inspector and knitwear aficionado, Sarah Lund. At twenty fifty-five minute episodes, the show didn’t bombard its audience at a relentless pace but took its time hooking them in and then turned the screw ever tighter. The Killing was shown in double bills over ten Saturday nights and gave viewers something that was rarely available on television. The impact of The Killing can perhaps be measured in that it is one of the few Scandinavian exports that has so far been picked up for its own US remake. Shown in its native Denmark in 2007, the show struck a huge chord with BBC4 viewers when it made its debut on the channel in the spring of 2011.
Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.If there was one show which stood at the pinnacle of this invasion then is was Forbrydelsen. Directly translated as “The Crime” but known to us in the UK as The Killing. The original series, which stars Sofia Helin and “Pusher” star Kim Bodnia, will be back for a second season in 2013.Įarlier this month, A&E announced plans for a Scandinavian remake - it’s making a pilot based on the Danish crime series “Those Who Kill.”
The pilot’s slated to being production in the fall. “The Bridge” will follow Sonya North, an American cop, and Marco Ruiz, the Mexican detective with whom she’s paired in the investigation, and, given the setting, will presumably involve drug cartels in some way. “Cold Case” creator Meredith Stiehm and Elwood Reid, a co-executive producer on “Hawaii Five-O” and “Undercovers,” will oversee the adaptation, which will be set in El Paso/Juarez on the border between the U.S. “ The Bridge” is based on the 2011 Danish/Swedish series “Bron,” about a murder investigation following the discovery of a dead body on the bridge connecting Denmark and Sweden. Meanwhile, FX announced this weekend that it was ordering a pilot for a Scandinavian crime remake of its own. AMC is incredibly proud of the show and is fortunate to have worked with such a talented team on this project, from showrunner Veena Sud and our terrific partners at Fox Television Studios to the talented, dedicated crew and exceptional cast. While AMC kept open the possibility of bringing back Sarah Linden (Mireille Enos) and Stephen Holder (Joel Kinnaman) to solve another crime, they’ve now announced the drama won’t be returning for another round.Īfter much deliberation, we’ve come to the difficult decision not to renew “The Killing” for a third season. After a promising start, the always atmospheric but relentlessly gloomy and contrivance-filled adaptation of the hit Danish television series muddled through its central mystery for two seasons before finally revealing who killed Seattle teenager Rosie Larsen on June 17th. It’s not with immense regret that we read AMC’s announcement that the network was not going to bring back “ The Killing” for a third season.