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Norway's Valkyrien comes to Walter Presents

26 July, 2017

Over the past couple of years, Channel 4’s overseas crime drama unit Walter Presents has discovered an array of hit shows from around the world and brought them to English-speaking audiences with subtitles. Walter’s latest must-watch Nordic noir programme that’ll have you hooked is Valkyrien,…

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Top of the Lake season 2 - China Girl

By crimefictionlover

16 July, 2017

The antipodean crime drama Top of the Lake returns to British screens on Thursday 27 July, with the action shifting from New Zealand’s South Island to Bondi Beach in Australia. The surf might be up, but detective Robin Griffin – played by Elizabeth Moss –…

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The Forgotten Girls: French crime drama coming to Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

29 June, 2017

She’s running through the woods. She’s been caught, and falls to the forest floor. Now he’s dragging her through the undergrowth… And now her clothes are being neatly folded by a pair of sickly white hands, and a statuette of Christ is laid upon her…

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Merciless: Killer crime TV from Brazil

By crimefictionlover

12 June, 2017

A multi-award winning programme in Brazil, Merciless is arriving on Channel 4 care of the Walter Presents label on Sunday 18 June at 10:15pm. After the airing of episode one, you’ll be able to stream all 13 one-hour shows as a box set on All4/Walter…

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Black Widow - new Netherlands noir on Walter Presents

By crimefictionlover

4 May, 2017

The Low Countries are sometimes overlooked in the world of crime fiction, but that is changing fast. The Belgian TV shows Salamander and The Out-Laws have made their way onto UK screens in recent years, and the Dutch programmes Framed and The Swingers have brought two very different…

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Death by aircon - Fargo season 3

By crimefictionlover

25 April, 2017

The best things come in threes, don’t they? This month we’ve had Bosch season 3 launch on Amazon, Hinterland season 3 on BBC and the iPlayer, and the 10-episode third season of Fargo has just launched in the United States. Created by Noah Hawley, and…

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The best new crime shows from around the world

By crimefictionlover

24 April, 2017

TV industry expert and author Dennis Broe reports from Series Mania, held last week in France The new buzz phrase in the television industry is ‘peak TV’. It’s based on the idea that between 2002 and today, the number of TV series has nearly tripled…

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The sinister side of Wales - Hinterland series 3

By crimefictionlover

29 March, 2017

Forget about the streets of London or Glasgow’s roughest estates. Forget Norway and Iceland too. New York and LA are not where it’s at. The most engaging crime drama in April will emanate from the eerily remote setting of West Wales. On 5 April, BBC One Wales will…

Crime Fiction Lover

Norway's Valkyrien comes to Walter Presents

Top of the Lake season 2 - China Girl

The Forgotten Girls: French crime drama coming to Walter Presents

Merciless: Killer crime TV from Brazil

Black Widow - new Netherlands noir on Walter Presents

Death by aircon - Fargo season 3

The best new crime shows from around the world

The sinister side of Wales - Hinterland series 3

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