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It's grim down south

Fans of the Scandicrime series, The Killing, waited with baited breath to find out whether Series Two could possibly be as good as Series One.

No-one was disappointed. Some fans think that the second one was even better than the first, and that was a tall order with expectations running so high. The Killing makes such compulsive viewing that the very thought of Saturday nights without it seemed positively disturbing, so news that there will be a Series Three comes as an enormous relief. Although one wonders if The Killing can possibly keep up the high standard of its predecessors. The trouble being that any formula becomes tired unless the director and scriptwriters find a creative way of breathing new life into it.