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Genre | Crime thriller |
Created by | Jeppe Gjervig Gram |
Written by | Anders August, Jannik Taj Mosholt, Jeppe Gjervig Gram |
Directed by | Per Fly |
Starring | Nikolaj Lie Kaas Thomas Bo Larsen Natalie Madueño Esben Smed |
Theme music composer | Tobias Wilner |
Country of origin | Denmark |
Original language(s) | Danish, English, Swedish, French |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 20 |
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Executive producer(s) | Piv Bernth |
Producer(s) | Anders Toft Andersen |
Running time | 58 min |
Production company(s) | Danmarks Radio (DR) |
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Original network | DR1 |
Picture format | 2.20:1 |
Follow the Money (Danish: Bedrag) is a Danish financial crime thriller that has run for two seasons and been shown in several other countries.
The original series, set in the renewable energy business in Denmark, was first broadcast in Denmark in January 2016 in ten episodes; it has dialogue in Danish, English and Swedish. It was broadcast subtitled in the UK on BBC Four from March 2016 under the title Follow the Money. In Finland, the first episode was broadcast on 12 April 2016 on Yle Fem, subtitled in Swedish and Finnish. In The Netherlands, the first episode was broadcast on 7 March 2016 on VARA, under the title Follow the Money, subtitled in Dutch. In Belgium, Canvas has broadcast the series under the title Follow the Money in pairs of two episodes with Dutch subtitles between 12 March 2016 and 9 April 2016. It premiered in Canada on CBC on 18 June 2016. It has also been shown on SBS in Australia, concluding in June 2016. It premiered in Portugal on RTP2 on 7 December 2016.
The second season of the show was broadcast in October–November 2016; this series continues the stories of most of the characters from the first series, but the main focus is on a bank practising P2P lending and their attempted takeover by a bank whose chair, Knud Christensen, was behind the fraud case investigated in the first season. It was screened in the UK on BBC Four from 4 March 2017.