Midsomer Murders visits Denmark for its 100th episode, The Killings of Copenhagen

7 February 2014 Rob Buckley Nordic TV, UK TV 8 Comments

The Killers of Copenhagen

It’s so easy to get caught up in the excitement of ‘Nordic Noir’ and its popularity over here, it’s easy to overlook another question: what TV of ours is popular in Scandinavia?

ITV’s Midsomer Murders, it turns out. Yes, that everyday story of a quiet English village, the population of which gets culled every episode in the most extraordinary ways, is ‘big over there’, at least in Denmark. So in acknowledgement of that fact, for the programme’s 100th episode, Midsomer Murders is leaving England and indeed Britain for the first time and heading over to Denmark.

Given the popularity of Nordic Noir over here, though, it seems appropriate that a few familiar faces from Danish TV would pop up in this episode. So watch this lovely trailer for the aptly titled The Killings of Copenhagen and see if you can spot a whole bunch of faces familiar from Nordic Noir shows, including Ann Eleonora Jørgensen from The Killing and Birgitte Hjort Sørensen from Borgen. In case you’re wondering, in the UK, it’ll air on ITV1 on February 12th at 8pm.

For even more info, Broadcast has a nice behind-the-scenes write-up of the episode.

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    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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