Over One Million Brits Watch The Killing III

When Sarah Lund first entered UK homes in January 2011, 392,000 people welcomed her. Nine months later, as The Killing fever gradually spread across the UK, 815,000 Brits turned on their TV sets for the premiere of Season 2. Today, Inspector Lund and her famous sweater have a million fans in the UK (including the Duchess of Cornwall - wife of Prince Charles - who visited The Killing's set last March) and the series is passionately debated in the UK media such as The Guardian that went as far as preparing UK viewers for Season 3 by offering them crash courses in Danish with a linguist from the University College of London.  "We are so excited about the British figures for Season 3," said producer and Head of Drama at DR Fiktion Piv Bernth. "What a start! We cross our fingers and hope that they will last till the end."

For BBC4 controller Richard Klein, foreign language European drama have become popular on UK TV ‘because it offers a Saturday night drama that is intelligent and complex, but not so taxing it feels like hard work,"  he told the UK newspaper The Guardian. "Most of this drama has got pretty mainstream appeal, it just happens to be in Swedish or Danish. One of the reasons they work is because they're quite soapy - there's a lot of domestic goings on, as well as the police and procedural stuff. You're drawn into the domestic lives of the people and see the long-term consequences of events."

At home, the third season of the nail-biting crime series registered its best ratings last Sunday with 1,773,000 viewers on DR1 and a quality rate of 4.5 (out of 5). This Sunday will be the last time Danes have rendez-vous with the iconic female detective created by Søren Sveistrup and masterly interpreted by Sofie Gråbøl.

The Killing III - supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond- is currently airing on NRK and will premiere on SVT early 2013.