Drama News & New Dramas
New Camilla Lackberg series will begin filming in August
Variety reports that “Shadow of Guilt,” based on Lackberg’s “Fjällbacka Murders” characters, is entering production with a broadcast planned for 2027. The six-part series has been picked up for global distribution by Reinvent Yellow as part of the New8 pubcasters alliance: Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Belgium, Germany and the Netherlands.
Season 2 of Black Sands debuts in May on the Viaplay streaming service
The second and final season of this Icelandic crime thriller finds the survivors of the Black Sands tragedy haunted by the revelation that one of them was a serial killer. Aldís Amah Hamilton returns as the Reykjavik police detective whose first case involves the death of a tourist near her hometown.
Production begins in June for new France 2 crime drama
La Petite, a four-part crime drama commissioned by France 2, will begin filming next month in northern France. Pauline Parigot will star as a detective investigating a murder in the region. Northern France. The series follows two families in a provincial town whose children were raised with the expectation of becoming a couple—a future the young woman ultimately rejects, triggering a devastating sequence of events.
