The third and final season of DR'cult series The Killing (Forbrydelsen) had an excellent premiere on DR1 last Sunday, as 1.6 million Danes (60 percent of viewers) tuned in to watch the Danish crime series. Sarah Lund's new investigations also received rave reviews, with some critics comparing the show's nailing- bite plot with the very first series aired five years ago on DR.
"We are so excited at DR Fiction that the premiere of The Killing III went so well," said Piv Bernth, producer of the show and Head of DR Drama. "It's the final ten episodes of the trilogy and it is always difficult to make number three, especially after the success of the first two seasons. This third season is more ambitious in every way - in the visuality, the storytelling, the suspense. Obviously, the audience liked it - and that's great! Now we hope that they will stay with the series and follow the story all the way to the end."
In this final installment written again by Søren Sveistrup, with Mikkel Serup as concept director, the economic gloom, political and financial imbroglios so familiar to viewers around the world take centre stage, as well as the crime plot and its interlocked family drama that was so successfully developed in the first season.
Actress Sofie Gråbøl (pictured - wearing a sexy V neck sweater this time) is back in the shoes of Sarah Lund. Among the many new faces is Nikolaj Lie Kaas who plays Mathias Borch, an old flame from the police academy now a senior member of a national security branch.
The Killing III was produced by DR with support from Nordisk Film & TV Fond. ZDF Enterprises handles world sale and will introduce to series to world buyers at MIPCOM.
The series will air on BBC4 in November. Read reviews in the British newspapers The Guardian and The Telegraph.