French dramas ‘Maison Close’ and ‘HARD’ to air on Sky Arts
Sky Arts has added two controversial French TV series to its strand of foreign drama imports.
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Sky Arts has added two controversial French TV series to its strand of foreign drama imports.
With the echoes of Homeland still resonating in the ears, it’s hard to approach Prisoners of War with an entirely open mind.
‘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.
Sky Arts has acquired foreign language drama Prisoners of War, on which the hit American drama series Homeland is based.
This second round of classy Scandinavian drama is almost as good as the sublime first outing for the fragile yet fearless Detective Inspector Sara Lund.
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.
Danish crime drama The Killing and French police series Spiral will both return to BBC Four later this year, the channel has announced.