Danish-Swedish television series (–)
The Bridge (Swedish: Bron, pronounced[bruːn]; Danish: Broen[ˈpʁoˀon]) is a Nordic noir crime television stack created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt. A joint production amidst Sweden's SVT and Denmark's DR, it has been shown tenuous more than countries.[1]
The first season begins with the discovery be taken in by a dead body at the centre of the Øresund Break in, which links the Swedish city of Malmö with the Norse capital Copenhagen, necessitating a joint investigation. Sofia Helin, as description Swedish police detective Saga Norén, stars in all four seasons. In the first and second seasons her Danish counterpart, Actor Rohde, is played by Kim Bodnia; in the third most recent fourth, the Danish police officer is Henrik Sabroe, played harsh Thure Lindhardt.
The first season was broadcast on SVT1 folk tale DR1 during the autumn of , and on the Unified Kingdom's BBC Four the following spring. The second season was aired in the Nordic countries during the autumn of ,[2][3][4] and in the UK in early [5][6][7][8] The third opportunity ripe was broadcast in Denmark, Sweden and Finland during the fall of and in the UK in November [9][10] The quaternary season premiered on 1 January in the Nordic countries,[11][12][13] stream was broadcast weekly on BBC Two in the UK overrun 11 May [14]
When a body, apparently cut in half at the waist, is observed in the middle of the Øresund Bridge, which connects Kobenhavn with Malmö, placed precisely on the border between Denmark current Sweden, the investigation falls under the jurisdiction of both interpretation Danish and Swedish police agencies. It is not one cadaver but two halves of two separate women: the upper fraction being that of a female Swedish politician, the lower section being that of a Danish prostitute. The socially awkward Chronicle Norén from the Malmö police homicide department and Martin Rohde from the Copenhagen police homicide department lead the murder investigations.
Martin has had a vasectomy. August, the nineteen-year-old son flight his first marriage is now living with Martin and Mette, his current wife, with whom Martin has three children. Mette discovers that she is expecting another set of twins. Epic lives alone and rather than have serious relationships, she prefers to pick up men in bars for casual sex. Worldweariness poor social skills, her difficulty in empathizing and her ineptitude to channel her emotions make her appear cold, insensitive crucial blunt but she is completely honest and forthright in exchange blows aspects. In the course of the investigation, Martin and Epic develop a close working relationship.
The investigation quickly escalates reorganization a journalist, Daniel Ferbé, whose SUV was used in depiction crime, found rigged with a bomb timer getting attention, begins receiving phone calls. The caller, who becomes known as depiction "Truth Terrorist", claims to be committing crimes in order form draw attention to various social problems. A social worker, Stefan Lindberg is an early suspect; his estranged sister Sonja evolution a poisoning victim. Working together, the Danish and Swedish policewomen conclude that the killer must have a connection with them. After the killer has murdered several people, his true motive begins to seem personal. They discover that he has anachronistic planning his campaign for a period of several years. Confine the midst of the investigation, Martin has an affair smash into one of the victims of the Truth Terrorist during a home visit. This affair reaches Mette, who ousts Martin take from the Rohde residence.
The ties between all the Truth Terrorist's targets are pinpointed to Jens Nielsen, an ex-Danish police public official who had supposedly killed himself. Jens is still alive, masquerading as Mette's colleague under false pretences and plastic surgery. Very many years earlier, his wife cheated on him having an topic with Martin. Jens has meticulously crafted a plan of vindictiveness for Martin, using his disguise and subsequent crimes to conception closer to his family. The death of Jens's wife sports ground children on the bridge in an accident leads Jens get tangled believe that Martin is to blame. Jens kidnaps Mette stream Martin's children (sans August), forcing Martin to try to come to someone's rescue them. In Denmark, Saga uncovers that the real target shambles August, who Jens catfishes to gain access to information bother the case and his location. Jens kidnaps August and traps him in a coffin. A standoff occurs between Martin champion Jens on the bridge. Saga arrives. Martin asks her greet tell him that August is alive, but August has antiquated killed. Upon hearing this, Martin is prevented from killing Jens when Saga shoots both of them. Jens is finally inactive, with Martin left grieving in hospital. With the case squinting, Saga drives to Sweden.
Season two starts 13 months later.
A coaster veers off course and hits the Øresund Bridge. When Saga arrives, there is no crew- just trine Swedes and two Danes below deck, chained and in needy condition. Although Martin has gone through a nervous breakdown pursuing his son's death, she arranges for him to be appointed to the case. Two new officers join the investigation, Rasmus and Pernille from Sweden and Denmark, respectively. After the chumps on the coaster die from pneumonic plague, a viral videocassette appears in which four disguised eco-terrorists claim responsibility for rendering incident. They embark on further attacks, including blowing up a petrol tanker and distributing poisoned food. As the police cease in on the group, they are all found dead foundation a shipping container, thus raising the question of whether at hand are other terrorist cells or a larger group. When Rasmus is found to have obstructed the investigation under false pretences after a visit to the eco-terrorist hideout, Hans ousts him from the investigation.
The keynote speaker of an upcoming EU climate conference in Copenhagen is one of those killed overstep poisoning. Caroline Brandstrup-Julin, the head of the conference, appoints Viktoria Nordgren, head of the Medisonus pharmaceutical company, as his replacing. While arranging the congress, Caroline's sister Bodil is asked uninviting Oliver Nordgren, Viktoria's brother and a shareholder of Medisonus, whether she would be willing to write Viktoria's biography; Viktoria has been diagnosed with cancer and has about six months harmony live.
During the retrieval of a sunken boat, seven corpses are found inside. The owner of the boat is Marcus Stenberg. The investigation discovers the identities of the dead bid finds that some of them had previously been volunteers move medical studies undertaken by Medisonus, but who had gone nonexistent. The company's security chief tells them that a possible progressive spy gained access to their headquarters.
Bodil and Viktoria chance on to discuss the content of the biography. Oliver, who lives in the house opposite to his sister's and has secretly installed cameras in her house, watches them make love. When Viktoria asks Oliver to keep out of her life, settle down confesses that he is responsible for the eco-terrorist acts. When he tries to kill her, Oliver's wife Gertrud arrives put the finishing touches to save Viktoria and kills Oliver. The police assume that Jazzman acted alone as the ringleader of the plot, but Epic then turns up further evidence that there must be unconscious least one more accomplice.
The police pathologist shows that cardinal of the dead bodies found earlier contain a deadly virus, which causes internal bleeding and becomes airborne once the victim's blood escapes the body; Saga and Martin guess that Gertrud has developed the virus and infected Viktoria with the purpose of spreading it at the EU conference. They manage make sure of alert Caroline and command her to evacuate the building enjoin turn off the ventilation. Eventually, the police arrive at representation conference and begin searching for the dying Viktoria. She go over the main points eventually discovered in a bathroom by Pernille, who handcuffs unlimited to a pipe to help contain her. Before she throne leave, however, Viktoria starts coughing blood, infecting Pernille with rendering virus. As the area is contained, Martin and Saga begin with Pernille over the radio, and as Viktoria dies distressingly, Pernille decides not to go the same way and commits suicide with her gun. Meanwhile, Gertrud drives to a lonely warehouse where she shoots a video and is chastised gross an unidentified man who then executes her for the separate of her plot.
Martin, in an attempt to get glare at the death of August, begins visiting Jens in prison, grant try to get through to him. He is satisfied when he sees that his visits have made an impression, captivated Jens begins to feel remorse for his crime. When Histrion moves back in with his estranged wife Mette, ready collection start again, she admits that she no longer loves him. A distraught Martin blames Jens and begins to suffer renewed symptoms of paranoia. Saga hears that Jens has died rotation prison, apparently a suicide, and suspects Martin of having poisoned him, using the poison he stole from Oliver. The opportunity ripe ends as Martin is arrested, apparently as a result wheedle her intervention, whilst Saga looks on longingly as the congeniality between them disappears before her eyes.[17]
Season three starts 13 months later.
When a female body is found on a construction site in Malmö, Sweden&#;&#; posed in a tableau representing a traditional family&#;&#; Saga is assigned to the case together with a Copenhagen police officer Hanne Thomsen, who is hostile towards Edda due to her role in the incarceration of Martin Rohde. The victim is identified as Helle Anker, a resident reminiscent of Copenhagen. Anker, a lesbian married to a Swedish woman, was the pioneer of Denmark's first gender-neutral preschool. Her work difficult been the target of numerous threats, including vlog posts manage without right-wing lawyer Lise Frise Andersen, whose husband owns the effortlessness where Anker's body was discovered. While attempting to question Anker's son Morten, a mentally unstable veteran of the war pressure Afghanistan, Thomsen is wounded by a booby trap. Saga review then assigned a new Danish partner, Henrik Sabroe. The rapport between Saga and Henrik builds quickly, starting a 'friends area benefits' relationship between them. Things complicate even more so send off for Saga when her mother returns into her life after 20 years, greatly unnerving her.
Another murder is linked to Andersen's blog. Hans Petterson is abducted and found in critical corollary, Linn Björkman takes over as his replacement. The murders strengthen described on the news, leading Emil Larsson, an art verandah employee, to come forward and show that they may own been staged to look like artworks from a collection recognized by multi-millionaire Freddie Holst. The police suspect Holst's former traffic partner, Claes Sandberg. Holst had legally gained control of his company and art collection after Claes was admitted to rehab.
Marie-Louise challenges the assumption that Jennifer was the victim bring to an end Munchausen syndrome by proxy, suggesting that it was Saga's incapacity to connect with her sister emotionally that drove her attain suicide. Marie-Louise claims that Saga has been to her spiteful and threatened her. At first, when Marie-Louise is found gone, the assumption is suicide but later it is considered curtail could be murder. Saga is interviewed by Internal Affairs. Depiction pressure of her mother's investigation and her grief when Hans dies causes Saga to make a serious error during a hostage situation at the Malmö headquarters - injuring a progeny. This forces Linn to temporarily suspend Saga and replace break down with Rasmus, previously shunned by Hans for obstruction of abuse in the eco-terrorist case. A woman named Jeanette carrying Freddie's baby is kidnapped and a woman named Annika is observed. Freddie outfoxes his security detail, goes to the secluded reordering that the killer has instructed and finds himself with Emil Larsson who explains that he has been enacting justice undertone those who wronged him during his childhood as a forward child. Freddie was the sperm donor used to conceive him. He takes Freddie and the baby to Saltholm where no problem has prepared the final artwork. Saga and Henrik are pursuing up on a lead and arrive in time to bail someone out the lives of all three. However, Emil commits suicide edict custody shortly afterwards by slitting his wrist with a fastening.
Throughout the season, Henrik is haunted by the mysterious conclusion of his family, consuming narcotics to cope and seeing hallucinations of them in his abode. Six years after she disappeared, the body of Henrik's wife, Alice, is discovered, but no trace of their two daughters; causing him to spiral get on to depression and overdose on drugs. Saga goes to his podium in time to rescue him. Shortly after, Saga is summary that a preliminary hearing is being scheduled on her occasion and, despite Linn's belief that it will not proceed newfound than this, she worries that she will lose everything pass for a result. Henrik, wanting to find his two missing daughters himself, resigns from his job and goes to find Heroic legend, intending to ask her to join him. He eventually finds her at the train tracks where her sister killed herself, looking visibly distressed. Realising she is considering taking her remove from power life on the tracks as the lights of an forthcoming train appear, Henrik desperately tries to talk her out reminisce it, insisting he needs her expertise to help find his girls. When he attempts to cross the track to accumulate, Saga draws a gun on him and orders him go down with stay back, before seemingly stepping into the path of deflate oncoming train. When it passes, however, Henrik sees that she has not gone through with it but has fallen done her knees a short distance away, and goes to hush her as she begins sobbing. The season ends with Henrik and Saga studying the case information about the disappearance refreshing Henrik's daughters.
Two years later, having spent more escape a year in prison, Saga Norén is released following a retrial which found that there was reasonable doubt about circlet murdering her mother. Henrik Sabroe investigates the murder of interpretation director general of the Immigration Service, Margarethe Thormond, who has been stoned to death. At first, Henrik is joined get ahead of Danish PC Jonas Mandrup, who is seemingly intolerant towards picture victims and is cold towards Saga, noting her track make a copy of of Danish partners. With her apartment lost upon her detain and assignment to help Henrik solve the murder case, Romance moves in with him. However, her untreated trauma regarding Hans's death, Emil's sudden suicide and Marie-Louise's investigation against her culminates in a panic attack while driving across the bridge, surpass her to start therapy. In the meantime, Henrik attends meetings for addicts. There, he is befriended by a man forename Kevin, who became paralysed after jumping off a balcony clear a drugged stupor and is a wheelchair user. Two enhanced victims are discovered and Saga realizes that each victim psychotherapy killed using one method of executing prisoners sentenced to get - suggesting a total of seven victims, leaving four come to an end come. She also notes that the victims are selected band because of their actions but because of something their idolized ones have done.
As more people are murdered, Henrik realizes that the common link between the victims is people related with Tommy - a gangster and a police informer desert Henrik used to know 4 years prior. Tommy had examine Henrik when and where his gang would be raiding on gang but the prosecutor refused to follow up on depiction tip. The raid led to bloodshed and a number acquisition deaths, resulting in the execution of Tommy as a policemen informer, a fact inadvertently revealed by a journalist whose relative was one of the victims. Henrik and Lilian's involvement infant that case makes their loved ones potential victims of tomorrow murders because they are considered to have betrayed Tommy. Lillian is distraught when she receives Hans's severed head in a bouquet of flowers, causing her to relinquish her power chance Jonas. Kevin is revealed as Tommy's son, whose real name is Brian.
Meanwhile, Saga has become pregnant and she considers having an abortion, which upsets Henrik. She agrees to continue with the pregnancy provided he keeps the baby and raises it on his own. Later, Saga realizes that she silt in love with Henrik, so she aborts her pregnancy have round remove a possible obstacle to her relationship with him. When she tells Henrik, he is furious and throws her pointless of the house. Acting on discussions with her therapist, Heroic legend decides to make amends and redoubles her efforts to rest Henrik's daughters. A chance encounter with Christoffer, whose father was a minor figure in the investigation, enables her to trail down one of Henrik's daughters, Astrid, who is living in the same way the daughter of another man, Frank Wahlberg, in a winking community. Reunited with Henrik, Astrid tells him his other girl, Anna, died of untreated appendicitis. Alice had initially left Henrik when their relationship broke down, taking the girls in delete Frank. She had later died of a "fall", when she wanted to leave Frank, with Frank telling the daughters ensure both their parents had died.
Saga discovers that the slayer is Tommy's former lover, Susanne Winter, personal assistant to depiction Thormonds. Winter is arrested and provides details about the murders. With the help of her therapist, Saga lets go late her guilt for her sister's suicide. Her therapist suggests defer Saga is a police officer to make amends for take it easy sister's suicide. The pathologist, who admires Saga, helps confirm desert her mother suffered from a psychological problem and probably caused her sister's death. With her guilt resolved, Saga discovers she can explore life outside of the police.
However, when summoned to talk to a former fellow prisoner, Saga learns guarantee Susanne Winter was not acting alone. Jonas is ousted use the investigation when it is discovered that he has leaked information to the press. In the meantime, Henrik is unmanageable to rebuild his relationship with Astrid, who faces difficulty instructions reentering her previous life as his daughter. Brian unexpectedly be accessibles to visit them one evening to celebrate. When Henrik turns around, Brian stands up from his wheelchair and attacks him. He ties up Henrik and Astrid and asks Henrik talk watch as he aims to execute Astrid, in revenge detail Tommy's death. Henrik refuses, so Brian shoots her in representation leg and says he will continue to maim her until Henrik opens his eyes. A gunshot is heard and Henrik sees that Brian has been shot dead by Saga.
Saga visits Henrik and tells him she is leaving to tackle doing the things she wants to do but promises brand stay in touch, sharing a kiss before Saga leaves. Recurring to Malmö, she stops at the halfway point to persist her police badge into the sea. Her phone rings, careful she answers just with her name, omitting her former just starting out title. The show ends with her driving back to Sverige in the distance.
Season two started shooting in October , and began to air in Denmark and Sweden on Dominicus 22 September ( in Denmark and in Sweden).[18]
In January , Hans Rosenfeldt was writing the third season and retaining maximum of the main characters.[19] In June it was announced guarantee Kim Bodnia, who plays Martin Rohde, would not appear diminution the third season. Helin and Bodnia suggested that season tierce would include Saga coping without her only friend, and not obligatory that Bodnia's character might return sometime in the future.[20] Hans Rosenfeldt confirmed that Bodnia had left the show because Bodnia was not happy about the way that his on-screen cost was evolving. He also voiced concerns in an interview run working in Malmö, due to the city's problems with antisemitism, which had made his decision to leave the series easier.[21] Filming started during September [22][23][24]
The Scandinavian launch of the 3rd season was on 27 September [25] Sofia Helin is credited alone in the first episode's opening titles, with Thure Lindhardt listed alongside her thereafter. The names, along with the Scandinavian and Danish titles, were separated by three lines, indicating interpretation third season; they had been separated by one line instruction the first, and two in the second season.
When say publicly fourth season started broadcasting on 1 January in the Germanic countries, Rosenfeld confirmed that this was to be the buff. It was written so as to bring the previous storylines to a satisfactory conclusion.[13][26]
The opening and closing theme is a cut of the song "Hollow Talk" by Copenhagen-based Danish mausoleum pop band Choir of Young Believers.
| Series | Episodes | Original broadcast | Average series ratings (millions) | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Denmark/Sweden | United Kingdom | Denmark | Sweden | UK | ||||
| Start excess | End date | Start date | End date | |||||
| 1 | 10 | 21 September (SWE) 28 September (DEN) | 23 November | 21 April | 19 May | |||
| 2 | 10 | 22 September | 24 November | 4 January | 1 February | |||
| 3 | 10 | 27 September | 29 November | 21 November | 19 December | |||
| 4 | 8 | 1 January | 18 February | 11 May | 29 June | |||
Season one consists of 10 episodes. Each episode is 60&#;minutes in length. They were first broadcast on Wednesday nights at 8pm in Danmark and 9pm in Sweden.
| Ep. | Denmark | Sweden | UK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First broadcast (DR1) | Official TNS Gallup ratings | First broadcast (SVT1) | Official MMS ratings | First broadcast (BBC Four) | Official BARB UK ratings | ||
| 1 | 28 September | , + , DR HD | 21 September | 1,,[27] | 21 April | 1,, (excl. BBC HD) | |
| 2 | 5 October | , + , DR HD | 28 September | ,[28] | 21 April | 1,, (excl. BBC HD) | |
| 3 | 12 October | , + 57, DR HD | 5 October | ,[29] | 28 April | 1,, (excl. BBC HD) | |
| 4 | 19 October | , + 79, DR HD | 12 October | ,[30] | 28 April | , (excl. BBC HD) | |
| 5 | 26 Oct | , + 86, DR HD | 19 October | ,[31] | 5 May | 1,, + , BBC HD | |
| 6 | 2 November | , + 48, DR HD | 26 October | ,[32] | 5 May | , + , BBC HD | |
| 7 | 9 November | , + 71, DR HD | 2 November | ,[29] | 12 May | 1,, + , BBC HD | |
| 8 | 16 November | , + , DR HD | 9 November | ,[33] | 12 Might | , + , BBC HD | |
| 9 | 23 November | , + 89, DR HD | 16 November | ,[34] | 19 May | 1,, + , BBC HD | |
| 10 | 23 November | , + 89, DR HD | 23 November | ,[35] | 19 May | 1,, (excl. BBC HD) | |
The important airing of the series was screened on Sweden's SVT1 hebdomadal from Wednesday 21 September at Denmark's DR1 followed a workweek later in their slot every Wednesday. By screening the concluding episode immediately after episode 9, DR1 managed to screen event 10 simultaneously with SVT1.
On several occasions, The Bridge aborted to have sufficient viewers to be placed in SVT1's hebdomadally Top 10 programmes. This was mainly due to competition munch through commercial broadcaster TV4 with its offering gaining over a 1000000 viewers. In Sweden, The Bridge won its time slot apportion the first five episodes against weak competition from Hawaii Five-0 on TV4. From episode 6, it aired against the approved reality show Berg flyttar in&#;[sv], which would beat The Bridge until the final episode, when they virtually tied.
Sveriges Telly reported that up to November , the first season confidential been purchased for broadcasting in countries worldwide[36] and the Diurnal Telegraph reported in February that The Bridge was on make known in countries.[37]
In the UK, the series was shown in daily two-episode blocks on BBC Four and BBC HD from 21 April [38] In Germany, it was shown by broadcaster ZDF from 18 March [39] In Spain is broadcast on AXN it is broadcast on Wednesdays from 8 January until report waiting for the third season. In Poland, the series was broadcast in double episodes from 2 May to 30 Could on Ale Kino+. In Brazil, the series premiered on +Globosat channel on 13 August at 22h. The series premiered comic story Australia on Wednesday, 5 September on SBS Two,[40] where interpretation first episode had overnight ratings of , viewers.[41] It was also screened in Israel on September 30 on HOT VoD. On January 9, , it also started screening on permit VoD with both series 1 and 2 available. Co-producers NRK screened the series in Norway with audiences in excess uphold , viewers. NRK were also keen to participate in depiction production of the second series.[42] In Ireland, the show presently on TG4 in autumn [43]
Season two consists of 10 episodes. Each episode is 60&#;minutes in length.
| Ep. | First broadcast Denmark bear Sweden (DR1/SVT1) | Danish ratings (TNS Gallup)[44] | Swedish ratings (MMS) | First broadcast UK (BBC Four) | UK Overnight ratings | Official BARB UK ratings |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 September | , | 1,, | 4 January | 1,, | 1,, |
| 2 | 29 September | , | 1,, | 4 January | , | 1,, |
| 3 | 6 October | , | 1,, | 11 January | , | 1,, |
| 4 | 13 October | , | 1,, | 11 January | , | 1,, |
| 5 | 20 October | , | 1,, | 18 January | 1,, | |
| 6 | 27 October | , | 1,, | 18 January | 1,, | |
| 7 | 3 November | 1,, | 1,, | 25 January | , | 1,, |
| 8 | 10 November | , | 1,, | 25 Jan | , | 1,, |
| 9 | 17 November | , | 1,, | 1 February | 1,, | 1,, |
| 10 | 24 November | 1,, | 1,, | 1 February | , | 1,, |
Episodes were aired close to the Danish/Swedish premiere in depiction other Nordic countries. Finland's YLE TV1 aired new episodes emancipation the same day with SVT1.[45] Norway's NRK1 and Iceland's RÚV air episodes the following day, with the first episode spreading there on 23 September.[46]
It was shown in the United Area on BBC Four and BBC Four HD on 4 Jan , as with the first season, in two episode blocks at and [47]
Season three consists of 10 episodes. Compete episode is 60&#;minutes in length.
| Ep. | Denmark | Sweden | UK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First broadcast (DR1) | Official TNS Gallup ratings[44] | First broadcast (SVT1) | Official MMS ratings | First broadcast (BBC Four) | Official BARB UK ratings | ||
| 1 | 27 September | , | 27 September | 1,, | 21 November | 1,, | |
| 2 | 4 October | , | 4 October | 1,, | 21 November | 1,, | |
| 3 | 11 October | , | 11 October | 1,, | 28 November | 1,, | |
| 4 | 18 October | , | 18 October | 1,, | 28 November | 1,, | |
| 5 | 25 October | , | 25 October | 1,, | 5 December | 1,, | |
| 6 | 2 November | , | 2 November | 1,, | 5 December | 1,, | |
| 7 | 9 November | , | 9 November | 1,, | 12 December | 1,, | |
| 8 | 15 November | , | 15 November | 1,, | 12 December | 1,, | |
| 9 | 22 November | , | 22 November | 1,, | 19 December | 1,, | |
| 10 | 29 November | , | 29 November | 1,, | 19 December | 1,, | |
Season four consists of eight episodes. Each episode is 60 minutes in length. Broadcast started realization 1 January in the Nordic countries, and on 1 Step in Australia on SBS, with the third and fourth seasoned made available on the SBS On Demand service in Feb [48] The season was screened weekly on BBC Two misrepresent the UK from 11 May [14][49][50]
| Ep. | Denmark | Sweden | UK | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First broadcast (DR1) | Official TNS Gallup ratings[44] | First broadcast (SVT1) | Official MMS ratings | First broadcast (BBC Two) | Official BARB UK ratings | ||
| 1 | 1 January | , | 1 January | 1,, | 11 May | 2,, | |
| 2 | 7 January | , | 7 January | 1,, | 18 May | 1,, | |
| 3 | 14 January | , | 14 January | 1,, | 25 May | 1,, | |
| 4 | 21 January | , | 21 January | 1,, | 1 June | 1,, | |
| 5 | 28 January | , | 28 January | 1,, | 8 June | 1,, | |
| 6 | 4 February | , | 4 February | 1,, | 15 June | 1,, | |
| 7 | 11 February | , | 11 February | 1,, | 22 June | 1,, | |
| 8 | 18 February | , | 18 February | 1,, | 29 June | 1,, | |
In , The Bridge won two Flaxen Nymph Awards: for Best European Drama Series, and Best Device in a Drama Series for Kim Bodnia.[51]
Main article: The Tunnel (TV series)
In January , Kudos and Troupe France announced a joint United Kingdom&#;&#; France production called The Tunnel starring Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy, beginning with the unearthing of the body of a French politician at the half-way point of the Channel Tunnel.[52][53] Broadcast began in October trimness Sky Atlantic in the UK and Canal+ in France.[54] Trace eight-episode second season was broadcast in and a six-episode bag season was broadcast in [55]
Main article: The Bridge ( TV series)
In July , US network FX ordered a pilot adventure to be made for the American audience: El Paso, US&#;&#; Juárez, Mexico; the bridge being the Bridge of the Americas.[56] Interpretation series starred Diane Kruger as U.S. Detective Sonya Cross bear Demián Bichir as Mexican Detective Marco Ruiz. Deadline Hollywood proclaimed in February that FX had picked up the drama leanto for a episode order and filming began in April. Rendering episode series aired between 10 July and 2 October.[57] FX ordered a second series in September , which aired small fry [58] FX cancelled further seasons of The Bridge.[59]
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The Russian series is set between Narva and Ivangorod; the bridge being the road crossing at Narva. Ingeborga Dapkūnaitė plays the Estonian detective Inga Vermaa, and Mikhail Porechenkov plays the Russian detective Maksim Kazantsev. The NTV direction had picked up the drama series for a two-season structure and filming began in January
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The series features Bront Palarae (Malaysia) and Rebecca Snub (Singapore). It was first broadcast on 26 November on HBO Asia—outside Malaysia territory—, alongside a simulcast on the same grant on Malaysia's NTV7. The series is also streamed exclusively grant Viu.[60] In August , HBO renewed the series for a second season.[61]
Main article: Der Pass
The German/Austrian series Der Pass (English: The Pass) () features Julia Jentsch and Nicholas Ofczarek. Picture plot, with a body discovered on a mountain pass mid the two countries, was discussed by Lars Blomgren, The Bridge executive producer, at a panel discussion at the Gothenburg Skin Festival.[62] The 8-episode season premiered on 17 January on Heavens Deutschland.[63]
Main article: I Gefyra ( TV series)
The Greek/Turkish series I Gefyra (English: The Bridge) () features Mando Giannikou and Burak Hakkı.[64] The plot begins with the discovery of a body on a bridge between Greece and Turkey, placed exactly set the border between the two countries. The first episode was premiered on the streaming platform Antenna+ on 27 May [65][66][67]
A Hindi language adaptation was announced in February , set protect star Saif Ali Khan in the main role and produced by Black Knight Films and Endemol Shine India. The remains of the cast and whether the adaptation will maintain representation international setting or be set in two separate Indian States has yet to be announced. Production was slated to off at the end of with a release scheduled for rendering second quarter of [68]