From the makers of The Killing, Danish drama The Legacy (Arvingerne) will begin in the UK on Sky Arts later this month.

Created by Swedish actor-turned-director Pernilla August and writer Maya Ilsøe’s, The Legacy tells the story of four siblings trying to cope with their mother’s death.

The ten-part first season starts at 10pm on Wednesday 26 November on Sky Arts.

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Renowned, eccentric Danish artist Veronika Grønnegaard (Kirsten Oleson) is dying of cancer. Along with her art, she’ll leave behind a huge country mansion and an eclectic family consisting of four adult children. Gro (Trine Dyrholm), the eldest daughter works with her mother.

The middle sons are Frederik (Carsten Bjørnlund), who has cut off contact with his mother, and Emil (Mikkel Boe Følsgaard), who only contacts his mother when he needs money. And finally then there is Signe (Marie Bach Hansen), the youngest daughter, who Veronkia gave up for adoption when she was born. Signe has no idea that she is Veronika’s daughter until she is contacted by her and immediately discovers the truth about her biological family.

What for the four siblings should have been a quick and painless division of Veronika’s estate marks the beginning of a journey into a web of secrets and lies which turns their lives upside down and forces them to look at both themselves and each other in an ominous new light.

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