The Tunnel (TV series)
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| Also known as | 'Tunnel' |
| Genre | Crime drama |
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| Opening theme | "The End of Time" – Charlotte Gainsbourg |
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| No. of seasons | 2 |
| No. of episodes | 18 (list of episodes) |
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| Producer(s) | Ruth Kenley-Letts |
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| Running time | 45 minutes approx |
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| Picture format | 16:9 (1080i HDTV) |
| Original release | 16 October 2013 – present |
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The Tunnel (French: Tunnel) is a British-French crime drama television series, adapted from the 2011 Danish/Swedish crime series The Bridge (Broen/Bron). The Tunnel began broadcast on 16 October 2013 on Sky Atlantic in the UK, and on 11 November 2013 on Canal+ in France. The series stars Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy as British and French police detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann, respectively. The plot follows the two detectives working together to find a serial killer who left the upper-half body of a French politician and the lower-half of a British prostitute in the Channel Tunnel, at the midpoint between France and the UK. They later learn that the killer – who comes to be nicknamed the "Truth Terrorist" – is on a moral crusade to highlight many social problems, terrorising both countries in the process. As the series progresses, the killer's true intention is revealed.
The Anglo-French adaption of The Bridge was announced as a joint project between Sky and Canal+ in January 2013. Ben Richards, the head writer of The Tunnel, worked with Hans Rosenfeldt, the creator of the original series. Due to the setting, the dialogue of the series is bilingual, a first for British and French television. With a budget of £15 million, filming took place between February and August 2013, and was shot on location in Kent, England and northern France. It was produced with both British and French crew members. The premieres on both Sky Atlantic and Canal+ received strong ratings for the respective channels, with an initial consolidated figure of almost 900,000 in the UK, and 1.3 million in France. Critical reception of the series has been generally positive, with Dillane and Poésy's acting being praised, as well as the plot's grittiness. The comparisons with The Bridge were also viewed favourably by some reviewers, though others criticised The Tunnel for being identical. The producers admit that the first episode is a copy of the original.
In February 2015, Sky announced that a second series of the show was set to air in early 2016. Titled The Tunnel: Sabotage, it would focus on the crash of an airliner into the English Channel. Stephen Dillane and Clémence Poésy would return as Karl Roebuck and Elise Wasserman. Consisting of eight episodes, it debuted on Sky Atlantic on Tuesday, 12 April 2016; although the video trailer on the series homepage indicated that it would start on 5 April, the debut was put back a week following the Brussels terrorist attacks on 22 March. The complete second series was made available on 12 April, via Sky's On Demand service. In the United States, the first series of The Tunnel was shown on many PBS stations from June through August 2016.
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