Belgian crime fiction

Belgian crime show The Twelve returns to More4

25 April, 2024

The second season of the Belgian crime drama The Twelve is coming to the UK with a case entitled The Cinderella Murder. A young woman stands accused of killing her step-mother, but beside her in the dock is her father – and 12 jurors must…

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Hidden Assets season 2 comes to BBC Four

By crimefictionlover

29 November, 2023

Last January, the crime show Hidden Assets was a surprise hit when it aired on BBC Four in the UK. Jointly made by Irish and Belgian production companies, it linked a criminal assets recovery investigator in Shannon with missing diamonds and a bombing in Antwerp,…

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Floodland brings Flemish crime fiction to our screens

By Paul Burke

15 May, 2021

Floodland is a Belgium-Netherlands co-production set in modern day Flanders-Zeeland, the borderland region between the two countries either side of the Scheldt river. It’s a blackly comic police drama that draws heavily on the clash of cultures between city, cosmopolitan liberal values and an out-of-touch…

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Hotel Beau Séjour - new Belgian crime show on Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

24 September, 2019

Ready to binge on something eccentric and different from Belgium… other than chocolate, that is? From 11pm on Sunday 29 September you’ll have that opportunity as Channel 4’s foreign crime streaming service Walter Presents launches Hotel Beau Séjour. This high concept programme brings together crime…

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Return to Hiroshima by Bob Van Laerhoven

By MarinaSofia

7 August, 2018

Translated by Brian Doyle — Belgian TV crime series have made a huge leap forward in recent years, with Salamander and Tabula Rasa being the most recent ones to hit the UK screens. Belgian crime fiction, however, has been more opaque to English-speaking audiences and is…

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Code 37 coming soon to the UK's More4

By crimefictionlover

4 August, 2018

She’s got blonde hair, brown eyes, a six-shooter on her hip and she roars around town in a big black Merc. Some might even say that Hannah Maes, played by Veerle Baetens, looks like she shot the sheriff. But instead her gang of subordinates in…

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Tabula Rasa - unforgettable crime show from Belgium

By crimefictionlover

30 April, 2018

Brussels is taking over. No, not a slogan from Donald Farage or Nigel Trump. It’s just that with the likes of Salamander, 13 Commandments and The Out-laws, Belgian crime shows are on the up. The latest to arrive is Tabula Rasa, which airs on Channel…

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Belgian crime show Salamander returns

By crimefictionlover

3 April, 2018

Do you remember the Belgian crime show Salamander, in which detective Paul Gerardi was drawn into unravelling a conspiracy following the robbery of some safety deposit boxes? The Flemish production had British viewers entranced when it was shown on BBC Four in 2014, attracting over…

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Belgian crime show The Twelve returns to More4

Hidden Assets season 2 comes to BBC Four

Floodland brings Flemish crime fiction to our screens

Hotel Beau Séjour - new Belgian crime show on Walter Presents

Return to Hiroshima by Bob Van Laerhoven

Code 37 coming soon to the UK's More4

Tabula Rasa - unforgettable crime show from Belgium

Belgian crime show Salamander returns

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