On Sunday, April 9, 2023, France 3 invites the public to discover its new British detective series called Annika from 9:10 p.m. Over the course of the six episodes that make up Season 1, viewers follow Commander Annika Strandhead, a brilliant Norwegian-born investigator who returns to her hometown of Glasgow to lead a maritime crime unit tasked with solving unexplained murders. on the coast of Scotland.
“Anika” will land on France 3
Intuitive and instinctive, Anika has a weakness for literary, historical and Scandinavian sagas. A passion that is far from being shared by his team, but which is very useful in solving the investigation.
As she juggles her professional and personal life as a single mother, Anika turns viewers into her confidants, sharing her observations on the world in front of the camera and with a heavy dose of irony.
During Annika’s first investigation, it became the new commander. She begins to investigate the death of a man pulled from the river by a fisherman. The victim had a harpoon stuck in his skull. Very quickly, police suspicion fell on the victim’s cousin, Finlay Morris. But why would he kill the one he thought was his father?
A heroine who speaks to the public
At the same time, our hero must also provide for the education of his daughter, Morgan, who is entering a new high school. Through her, Annika also questions her role as a parent and, as a single mother, compares herself to the wife of the novel’s main character, Captain Ahab. Moby-DickWritten by Herman Melville…
In the credits of the series we meet the actors Nicola Walker (Commander Annika Strandhead), Jamie Sives (Captain Michael McAndrews), Cathy Leung (Lieutenant Blair Ferguson), Kejelli Roach (Captain Tyrone Clarke), Kate Dickey (Division Commander Diane Oban). ) or even Sylvie Furno (Morgan Strandhed).
Based on its success across the channel, the fiction has already been renewed in August 2022 and will therefore have a second season soon. Will Annika get the same welcome in France?
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