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Some Engrenages (Spiral) season three news, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage

25 February 2010 Rob Buckley Post a comment

Spiral series 3 on L'Hebdo Séries

Seeing as French TV networks don’t appear to have discovered the concept of embedded videos yet, you’re all going to have to mosey on down to CanalPlus’s web site to view the latest edition of L’Hebdo Séries, which – as well as giving you more old clips of current and old US TV shows and movies than you could ever to see even in the US – gives us a little two minute behind-the-scenes look at season three of Engrenages (what BBC4 calls Spiral).

It doesn’t tell us much that we didn’t already know – assuming my French is up to snuff – except that the third season will start in the Spring on Canal+ (no word yet from the BBC press office and BBC4, unsurprisingly). But it’s nice to see that at least on the cops side, most of the previous season’s characters are still intact. No sign of Sammy mind.

BTW, did anyone else think that having Grégory Fitoussi play the Baron in GI Joe was just the most jarring bit of casting, ever.

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Some Engrenages (Spiral) season three news, interviews and behind-the-scenes footage

25 February 2010 Rob Buckley 8 Comments

Spiral series 3 on L'Hebdo Séries

Seeing as French TV networks don’t appear to have discovered the concept of embedded videos yet, you’re all going to have to mosey on down to CanalPlus’s web site to view the latest edition of L’Hebdo Séries, which – as well as giving you more old clips of current and old US TV shows and movies than you could ever to see even in the US – gives us a little two minute behind-the-scenes look at season three of Engrenages (what BBC4 calls Spiral).

It doesn’t tell us much that we didn’t already know – assuming my French is up to snuff – except that the third season will start in the Spring on Canal+ (no word yet from the BBC press office and BBC4, unsurprisingly). But it’s nice to see that at least on the cops side, most of the previous season’s characters are still intact. No sign of Sammy mind.

BTW, did anyone else think that having Grégory Fitoussi play the Baron in GI Joe was just the most jarring bit of casting, ever.

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Spiral (Engrenages) – season three. What’s happening?

11 November 2009 Rob Buckley 10 Comments

Well, after a bit of investigation, I’ve tracked down what’s happening with season three of Engrenages (Spiral), which has just finished its BBC4 run.

So season three is going to be 12 episodes long and it’s been shot in and around Paris (particularly the 19th arrondissement, and inside the Palais de Justice and the Hôtel Dieu) in two blocks: 25th June to the 2nd October this year was the first block, with the second block running from 12th October to the 29th January next year.

As for the plot, it’s going to “delve into the deranged mind” of a serial killer, the Butcher of Villette, who kills and mutilates young girls. The show will look at the difficulty of dealing with a high-profile media crime, where even the slightest mistake can have terrible consequences (I’m translating here, in case you couldn’t guess).

Interestingly, the BBC is assisting with the show, at least financially, so that should mean BBC4 should be picking up the third season at some point. As for who’s coming back from the cast, we have Caroline Proust (Laure), Audrey Fleurot (Karlsson), Grégory Fitoussi (Clement), Philippe Duclos (Roban), Thierry Godard (Gilou) and Fred Bianconi (Fromentin), at least. No word on Samy, I’m afraid.

I’ve dropped a line to the Beeb about air dates and whether they’re going to show it and I’ll let you know if/when they get back to me.