US ‘The Killing’ returns to Channel 4 next month
Channel 4 have announced that the second season of the US remake of The Killing will begin airing in the UK on the channel in May.
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Channel 4 have announced that the second season of the US remake of The Killing will begin airing in the UK on the channel in May.
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.
For British TV viewers, it must have felt like an aeon waiting for the return of cult hero Detective Inspector Sarah Lund.
UK viewers of the excellent Engrenages (AKA Spiral) may already have some idea of what to expect from another French cop show.
Following the huge success of the original cult Danish crime series Forbrydelsen, fans were rightly suspicious of Veena Sud’s American remake.
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.
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