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Lots of news about Engrenages/Spiral season 4 as well as some teaser trailers

3 July 2012 Rob Buckley 4 Comments

The cast of Spiral at the press conference last month

Lots of news on the Engrenages/Spiral front. First up, it’s going to start airing on Canal+ in September – and yay for us – only a few weeks after on BBC4 in the UK.

Secondly, there’s going to be a web spin-off, Inside Engrenages, that will air seven days before the fourth season that will be from the viewpoint of a reporter embedded with the police.

Thirdly, for lovers of French television, there’s the news that Nicolas Briançon from Maison close is going to be in the new series. I have no idea who he is, mind, but here’s a picture of him:

Nicolas Briançon

Jérôme Huguet is also in it – he looks like this:

Jérôme Huguet

Also confirmed are Judith Chemla, Bruno Debrandt (Commissaire Brémont) and, as Chloe correctly pointed out, (spoiler alert) Samir Boitard aka Samy from season 2 is back.

Lastly, after the jump, you can watch a set of three teaser trailers for the fourth season. They’re in French, obviously. I’m not sure whether they’re supposed to tie into the embedded reporter thing or not, but they all seem to have the regular cast being a bit annoyed that we viewers are watching them.

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Thursday’s “Wonder Woman gets a writer, Samuel L Jackson joins Robocop and France gets six new HD channels” news

7 June 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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  • Trailer for That’s My Boy, with Adam Sandler, Leighton Meester, Susan Sarandon et al
  • Trailer for Robert Zemeckis’s Flight, with Denzel Washington, Kelly Reilly, Don Cheadle et al
  • Teaser trailer for Django Unchained

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Engrenages/Spiral finishes filming on the fourth season (video)

22 May 2012 Rob Buckley 7 Comments

BBC4/Canal+ favourite Spiral (aka Engrenages) has just finished filming its fourth season. Here’s a little behind-the-scenes video with some of the cast and crew about what’s going to happen – in French, obviously. No big revelations, I don’t think (we already knew it was going to be about the extreme left wing, terrorists, etc) but it’s nice to see them all again – and to know the next season is approaching fast. I’m guessing a 2013 airing in the UK, but you never know.

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Friday’s “NBC and ABC’s renewals, Cougar Town moves and NBC and CBC’s new series” news

11 May 2012 Rob Buckley Post a comment

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Canadian TV

  • CBC unveils 2012-3 season, including Cracked and Titanic: Blood and Steel, as well as the return of Arctic Air

UK/French TV

  • France’s Canal+ and Sky Atlantic to remake Sweden and Denmark’s The Bridge
  • Sky Arts orders Psychobitches, with Catherine Tate, Rebecca Front and Sharon Horgan, as well as a full series of Nixon’s the One with Harry Shearer, while Sky Living commissions The Spa by Derren Litten and Gates with Sue Johnston and Joanna Page
  • Next series of Top Gear postponed until 2013

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US TV pilots

  • Luther creator to write NBC’s Republic of Pirates
  • NBC orders Do No Harm and Infamous

How much more Scandinavian content is there to remake?

10 May 2012 Rob Buckley 1 Comment

The Bridge

So today’s news brings us not one but two Scandinavian crime remakes. First, we have the US’s Lifetime channel remaking Denmark’s Lulu and Leon, which sees a woman take over her husband’s criminal empire when he is put behind bars.

We also now have Sky Atlantic co-producing a remake [subscription required] with Kudos and France’s Canal+ of Sweden and Denmark’s The Bridge. Presumably it’s going to be The Chunnel/Le tunnel sous la Manche) and have exciting cultural clashes in both French and English between the reserved, rules-bound English detective and the more rules-free, salt of the earth French detective (Jean-Hugues Anglade from Canal+’s Braquo gets my vote).

There’s already quite a platter of English-language remakes of Scandinavian shows now, particularly in the US, what with The Killing already on its second season on AMC, Those Who Kill being remade by A&E, NBC remaking Borgen and so on.

Is there much left? Does anyone know? Any predictions on what the next remake will be, those who know?