David Farnor | On 02, Sep 2020

“OK, nice and simple, let me tell you what happened.” That’s the sound of Kit Harington sitting in the hot seat for the return of Netflix’s Criminal.

The series, which debuted last year, takes place in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost. The stripped down, cat-and-mouse drama focuses on the mental conflict between the police and the suspect in question. But the show was also bigger than that, conceived as an anthology of 12 unique stories set in four different countries – France, Spain, Germany and the UK – with a local cast and crew for each.

Season 1’s guest stars included David Tennant and Hayley Atwell, as well as regulars Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby and Nicholas Pinnock. Now, with Ingleby and Kelly returning for Season 2, Netflix has confirmed the guest stars who will be interrogated across four new episodes: Kit Harington, Kunal Nayyar, Sharon Horgan and Sophie Okonedo.

Every suspect has their story. Whose will you believe? Find out on 16th September when Season 2 premieres. Here’s the trailer:

 

First look: Netflix’s Criminal returns for Season 2 this September

20th August 2020

Netflix’s Criminal is returning this September for a second season.

The series, which debuted last year, takes place in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost. The stripped down, cat-and-mouse drama focuses on the mental conflict between the police and the suspect in question. But the show was also bigger than, conceived as an anthology of 12 unique stories set in four different countries – France, Spain, Germany and the UK – with a local cast and crew for each.

Season 1’s guest stars included David Tennant and Hayley Atwell, as well as regulars Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby and Nicholas Pinnock. Now, Netflix has confirmed that the show will be back on our screens next month for four new episodes with four new suspects.

The guest stars will be announced shortly, but we’ve got our first look at the series’ return, with new pictures confirming that Ingleby and Kelly will both be back as Tony Myerscough and Natalie Jobbs, alongside Shubham Saraf as Kyle Petit, Rochenda Sandall as Vanessa Warren, Aymen Hamdouchi as Jamie Reiss.. Season 2 will premiere on 16th September. Here are the images:

 

Watch: New trailers unleashed for Netflix’s Criminal

4th September 2019

Psychological games abound between detectives and suspects in Netflix’s ambitious new crime drama, Criminal, and a new trailer gives us a first look at the scale of the international show.

The series takes place in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost. The stripped down, cat-and-mouse drama will focus on the intense mental conflict between the police officer and the suspect in question. But Netflix is thinking bigger than that: the procedural series is an anthology of 12 unique stories set in four different countries – France, Spain, Germany and the UK – with a local cast and crew for each.

In the UK, the cast includes David Tennant and Hayley Atwell, as well as Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby and Nicholas Pinnock. Jim Field Smith will helm all three UK episodes, with Oliver Hirschbiegel directing the German instalments, Frederic Mermoud helming the French episodes and Mariano Barroso aboard to direct the Spanish entries.

It’s only fitting, then, that Netflix should drop new trailers for each of the international episodes. The series premieres on Friday 20th September. Read on below for the teasers:

UK

Cast: Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Nicholas Pinnock, Mark Stanley, Rochenda Sandall Shubham Saraf

Guest stars: David Tennant, Hayley Atwell

France

Cast: Margot Bancilhon, Laurent Lucas, Stéphane Jobert, Anne Azoulay, Mhamed Arezki

Guest stars: Nathalie Baye, Jérémie Renier, Sara Giraudeau

Germany

Cast: Eva Meckbach, Sylvester Groth, Florence Kasumba, Christian Kuchenbuch and Jonathan Berlin

Guest stars: Peter Kurth, Christian Berkel, Deniz Arora, Nina Hoss

Spain

Cast: Emma Suárez, Álvaro Cervantes. Jorge Bosch, José Ángel Egido, Nuria Mencía, Daniel Chamorro

Guest stars: Carmen Machi, Inma Cuesta, Eduard Fernández

 

Netflix’s Criminal gets release date and new images

17th June 2019

Netflix has announced the release date of its unique new series Criminal, and unveiled a host of new images to boot.

The procedural crime drama comprises 12 stories set in 4 different countries: France, Spain, Germany and the UK. It takes place exclusively within the confines of a police interview suite. This stripped down, cat-and-mouse drama focuses on the intense mental conflict between detectives and suspects.

In the UK, the regular cast includes Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Nicholas Pinnock, Mark Stanley, Rochenda Sandall and Shubham Saraf, with guest stars for the episodes including David Tennant, Hayley Atwell, Youssef Kerkour, and Clare-Hope Ashitey.
 
The episodes are in local language, written and directed by talent from their respective countries. Jim Field Smith will helm all three UK episodes, with Oliver Hirschbiegel directing the German instalments, Frederic Mermoud helming the French episodes and Mariano Barroso aboard to direct the Spanish entries.

George Kay (Killing Eve, The Hour) and Jim Field Smith (Endeavour, The Wrong Mans) are the series creators and showrunners. All 12 episodes were filmed at Netflix’s production hub at Ciudad de la Tele in Madrid.
 
The series premieres on Netflix on 20th September. Here are some new photos of the cast in action:
 

 

First look: David Tennant and Hayley Atwell in Netflix’s Criminal

10th August 2019

Netflix is thinking global with its new original series, Criminal, which brings together 12 crime stories from four countries into one seres – and we’ve got our first look at David Tennant and Hayley Atwell in the show’s UK segments.

The procedural anthology takes place exclusively within the confines of a police interview suite, a stripped down, cat-and-mouse drama that focuses on the intense mental conflict between detectives and suspects in France, Spain, Germany and the UK.

Each country will produce three 45-minute episodes in their local language, written and directed by homegrown talent.

UK

David Tennant, Hayley Atwell, Youssef Kerkour, and Clare-Hope Ashitey will star in the UK episodes, with regular cast members including Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, Nicholas Pinnock, Mark Stanley, Rochenda Sandall and Shubham Saraf.

Behind the camera are George Kay (Writer, Co-Creator & Executive Producer) and Jim Field Smith (Director, Co-Creator & Executive Producer).

France

Nathalie Baye, Jérémie Renier and Sara Giraudeau will guest star, with the regular ensemble including Margot Bancilhon, Laurent Lucas, Stéphane Jobert, Anne Azoulay and Mhamed Arezki.

Behind the camera are Frederic Mermoud (Writer, Director & Co Executive Producer) (Spiral, The Returned), Antonin Martin-Hilbert (Writer) (Nina, Black Spot) and Mathieu Missoffe (writer) (Black Spot, Profilage).

Germany

Peter Kurth, Christian Berkel, Deniz Arora and Nina Hoss will guest star, with regulars including Eva Meckbach, Sylvester Groth, Florence Kasumba, Christian Kuchenbuch and Jonathan Berlin.

Behind the camera are Oliver Hirschbiegel (Director & Co Executive Producer) (Four Blocks, Downfall), Bernd Lange (Writer) (Das Verschwinden) and Sebastian Heeg (Co-Writer) (Blaumacher).

Spain

Carmen Machi, Inma Cuesta, Eduard Fernández, Emma Suárez and Álvaro Cervantes will guest star, alongside regulars Jorge Bosch, José Ángel Egido, Nuria Mencía, Daniel Chamorro, María Morales, Javi Coll and Milo Taboada.

Behind the camera are Mariano Barroso (Director & Co Executive Producer) (El día de mañana, Todas las mujeres, Éxtasis), Alejandro Hernández (Writer) (El autor, El día de mañana) and Manuel Martín Cuenca (Writer) (El autor, Caníbal).

Here’s the first teaser for the series, which will be released on Netflix this autumn:

 

Oliver Hirschbiegel and George Kay team up for international Netflix procedural Criminal

29th November 2018

Netflix is thinking international for its new police procedural drama, Criminal.

The series has a unique premise: it takes place exclusively within the confines of a police interview suite. This stripped down, cat-and-mouse format will focus on the intense mental conflict between the police officer and the suspect in question.

But more revolutionary than that is that the series will comprise multiple stories set in four different countries: France, Spain, Germany and the UK. An Idiotlamp Production for Netflix, the episodes will all be in their local language, written and directed by talent from their respective countries, with George Kay (Killing Eve, The Hour) and Jim Field Smith (Endeavour, The Wrong Mans) as overall showrunners. Three 45-minute episodes will be set in each country, creating a total of 12.

In the UK, George Kay (Writer, Co-Creator & Executive Producer) and Jim Field Smith (Director, Co-Creator & Executive Producer) will be at the helm. In France, Frederic Mermoud Spiral, The Returned) will write, direct and co-exec-produce, alongside writers Antonin Martin-Hilbert (Nina, Black Spot) and Mathieu Missoffe (Black Spot, Profilage). Behind the camera in Germany will be director and co-EP Oliver Hirschbiegel (Four Blocks, Downfall), and writers Bernd Lange (Das Verschwinden) and Sebastian Heeg (Blaumacher). And, in Spain, Mariano Barroso (El día de mañana, Todas las mujeres, Éxtasis) is director and co-EP, with Alejandro Hernández (El autor, El día de mañana) and Manuel Martín Cuenca )El autor, Caníbal) on scripting duties.

All 12 episodes of Criminal will film at Netflix’s production hub at Ciudad de la Tele in Madrid.

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