British TV goes Danish Drama Mad

[Bob The Skutter]

After The Killing was a big hit for BBC Four and now Borgen has amassed a big following it appears we're going to be flooded with Danish drama.
BBC have confirmed the second series of Borgen will air before the end of the year, and the third of The Killing will be shown, and now enters ITV with the proposition of Those Who Kill...

Those Who Kill - ITV3, in the coming weeks
It’s set in Copenhagen, co-stars Lars Mikkelsen, who played mayoral candidate Troels Hartmann in The Killing, and features another dedicated female detective, Inspector Katrina Ries Jensen, played by Laura Bach.
But where The Killing follows a single murder investigation throughout a series, Those Who Kill (or Den som Draeber as they say in Denmark) focuses on the psychology of multiple serial killers, and has been compared to British shows such as Criminal Minds and Wire in the Blood.
Based on the books by bestselling crime author Elsebeth Egholm, the first series of Those Who Kill drew a record audience share when it aired on Danish channel TV2

Add to that BBC Four have The Bridge and Sebastian Bergman coming up, too.

The Bridge - BBC4, spring
Danish and Swedish cops Martin Rohde (Kim Bodnia) and Saga Norén (Sofia Helin) must work together after a grizzly discovery on the Oresund Bridge, which links the two countries.
What's at first thought to be a single body turns out to consist of two different victims, one a Swedish politician, the other a Danish prostitute.
Sebastian Bergman - BBC4, 2012
Rolf Lassgård – known to many as the original, Swedish Wallander – stars as another troubled detective, Sebastian Bergman, politically incorrect, abrasive and still battling grief over the loss of both his wife and daughter in the Thailand tsunami.
Two 90 minute dramas focus on the murder of a 15-year-old boy, and a copycat serial perpetrator who appears to be basing his crimes on those of a killer Bergman himself put behind bars.

It's nice to see a bit more foreign language television airing. I'm currently watching Borgen and really enjoying it. Should try out The Killing, too, I suppose.

 

[Nociod]

BBC also just bought "Lilyhamer"

Lilyhammer, a Norwegian comic drama starring The Sopranos' Steven Van Zandt, is the latest Scandinavian import to be bought by BBC4, currently on a high after critical acclaim and healthy audiences for a string of Danish and Swedish series.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2012/feb/05/lilyhammer-series-borgen-bbc4-zandt

The series is also sold to the US, and will be available on Netflix Streaming starting next week (or soon anyways).

Don't know if non-Norwegians are going to appreciate the humour, and the Norwegian actors aren't that good, but it gave me a few laughs anyways

 

[Bob The Skutter]

Bloody hell. BBC Four will have no British Drama left but will be packed with foreign language stuff.

 

[That Weirdo In The Corner]

The BBC should show us the very best of foreign language programmes, it is what a public service broadcaster should do.

Yes, The BBC should be majority British produced content, but are subtitles that hard.