News

A scene from the Danish crime drama miniseries “Fatal Crossing.” Courtesy of MHz Choice

If you’re in the mood for a dark, slow-moving Danish crime drama miniseries, “Fatal Crossing” (originally “Pigerne fra Englandsbåden”) might fill the bill. Nora (Marie Sando Jondal) is a Danish journalist working for a major London paper. The story opens with her being suspended for boinking the tycoon she was profiling, who wound up being arrested for fraud. Tail between her legs she shuffles back to her hometown in North Zealand and moves in with her dad to escape the flak in England. That attempted withdrawal is dinged when someone anonymously stuffs her mailbox with photos from the unsolved disappearance of two teen girls in 1984 from a ferry to England. It was a big deal at the time, and still casts a pall over the community. As she starts probing that case, another young girl goes missing.

REinvent International Sales has picked up “Fatal Crossing,” a crime series based on Lone Theils’s bestselling debut novel was published in 20 countries.

The eight-episode series is produced by Shuuto Arctic, the banner behind “Outlier” and “Catch and Release,” two popular Nordic crime series. The Scandinavian cast is led by Marie Sandø (“The Marco Effect”), alongside Jesper Paasch (“The Rain”), Anna Stokholm (“The New Nurses”), Siir Tilif (“Those Who Kill”) and Viktor Hjelmsø (“Boys”).

Created and written by Arne Berggren and Kristine Berg, who previously teamed on “Catch and Release” and “Outlier,” “Fatal Crossing” spans two different periods in time, the 1980’s and present time.

The story of “Fatal Crossing” revolves around Nora Sand (Sandø), a journalist working as a foreign correspondent for a Danish newspaper who spends most of her time in London. She’s at the peak of her career when she’s accused of having had an...