Season four of the iconic series will premiere January 1st - simultaneously on DR, SVT, YLE, NRK. Johannes Bah Kuhnke and Thomas Gabrielsson are new cast members.

Bah Kunhke (Force Majeure, Black Widows) and Gabrielsson (The Last Kingdom, A Royal Affair) have joined newly cast Mikael Birkkjær (Borgen), while Sofie Helin and Thure Lindhardt reprise their roles as Saga Norén and Henrik Sabroe. Other familiar actors from previous seasons include Sarah Boberg, Rafael Pettersson and Marial Kulle.

The overarching theme of the closing season of the Swedish/Danish crime series The Bridge (Bron/Broen) is identity. According to the official log-line, the plots raise practical problems linked to false passports and ID, but in examining their own identities and those of the offenders and victims they encounter, the main characters invite viewers to ask similar existential questions.

Head-writers Hans Rosenfeldt and Camilla Ahlgren said they felt that there was one last thrilling story to tell about Saga Norén and Henrik Sabroe. “Set two years on from last series, Saga is coming to terms with the dire consequences of being accused of her mother’s murder, when a macabre crime seemingly linked to migration takes place. Meanwhile, Henrik continues his desperate search for his children."

The stellar creative team also comprises writers Nikolaj Scherfig, Veronica Zacco and Torleif Hoppe, concept director Henrik Georgsson, director Rumle Hammerich and cinematographers Carl Sundberg and Lars Reinholdt.

Sweden’s Filmlance International is producing with Denmark’s Nimbus Film. Co-production partners/distributors Lumiere in Benelux will launch the show in January and Germany’s ZDF in the spring 2018.

Meanwhile BBC has just announced that the series, that was BBC Four’s highest ever rating drama with over 1 million viewers in 2015, has been moved up to its mainstream channel BBC Two, for a premiere in 2018. Patrick Holland, Channel Controller of BBC Two said ‘The Bridge has helped redefine television drama in recent years and it is fitting that its final series will be showcased on BBC Two.”