
DCI Banks(2011)
A thrilling drama based on the novels by Peter Robinson. Stephen Tompkinson and Andrea Lowe star as the tenacious and stubborn Chief Inspector Alan Banks and the feisty and headstrong Detective Sergeant Annie Cabbot.


This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.

Kenneth Branagh
Kurt Wallander

Jeany Spark
Linda Wallander
Wallander is a drama, crime, mystery series that first aired in 2008 exploring themes of based on novel or book, sweden, scandinavia, police, police detective, murder investigation. Created by Henning Mankell, it stars Kenneth Branagh, Jeany Spark. This drama follows Inspector Kurt Wallander – a middle-aged everyman – as he struggles against a rising tide of violence in the apparently sleepy backwaters in and around Ystad in Skane, southern Sweden. Based on the international best-selling books by Henning Mankell.
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