The new season of Canal+/BBC4’s Engrenages/Spiral begins on 3 September in France – no word yet from BBC4 on when it will air it, I’m afraid, but with 11 episodes of Inspector Montalbano left on Saturdays, I don’t imagine it’ll be for a a while yet. So to tide you over and get you all unfairly excited, here’s the first couple of minutes of the new season. In French obviously. Sorry, non-French speakers.
Don’t forget you can also play Inside Engrenages over on the Canal+ web site. And there are lovely pictures of Audrey Fleurot and Grégory Fitoussi there, as well as of other cast members and plot-relevant moments from the new season, too.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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