BBC Four has confirmed plans to air the new seasons of French police thriller Spiral and Scandinavian crime drama The Bridge. Spiral‘s fifth season begins airing in France this autumn and will take Laure Berthaud and her team into the world of organised crime where none will remain unscathed by the brutality of the investigation. … >
‘You’re the sleaziest bastards I’ve ever met,’ a member of the disciplinary committee tells Eddy, Roxanne and Walter. Absolutely right – and it’s magnifique to have them back.
UK viewers of the excellent Engrenages (AKA Spiral) may already have some idea of what to expect from another French cop show.
European police procedurals are very much in vogue at the moment following the surprise success of Denmark’s The Killing, but where this Paris-set series suffers somewhat from a surfeit of characters and plot lines.
There are only a few reasons why television remakes are commissioned, but the ways in which they can fail are as plentiful as there are fans to castigate a production company for daring to make such horrendous sows’ ears out of the silk purse originals.
Broadcast rights for the first two seasons of Fox’s version of Danish hit crime drama The Killing have been secured by Channel 4.
After six scintillating Saturdays’ worth of murder, mayhem and malheur, French crime drama Spiral concludes with a double-bill that untangles the criss-crossing cat’s cradle of storylines and brings the series to a grim but gripping conclusion.
In the concluding double-bill of the bleak, bloody and brilliant French crime drama, Captain Laure Berthaud and her team are closing in on Ronaldo Fuentes; but will Vincent Brémont and his Crime Squad help or hinder the CID’s progress?
‘Three years in Seine-Saint-Denis would make any policeman corrupt,’ says Crime Squad Superintendent Brémont (Bruno Debrant) in this week’s double-episode of police drama Spiral, but it’s highly unlikely it takes anyone in the French justice system that long.
Despite a profound inability to work together without breaking the law, making horrendous cock-ups or screaming at each other, Captain Laure Berthaud (Caroline Proust) and her CID team finally start making some progress in their pursuit of the titular killer this week.