| 02 February 2021
Showing clearly the continued popularity of Scandie noir among English-speaking audiences, Banijay Rights has announced that just as the Swedish crime thriller is to return for a second season, Bäckström has been picked up by AMC Networks in the UK, Canada and US for its streaming service, Acorn TV.
Produced by Yellow Bird for C More and TV4 in co-production with Film i Väst and ARD Degeto, the crime drama series centres around detective Evert Backstrom, a man famous for having solved 99% of all cases he has taken on. Series 1 (6 x 45’) is based on Leif GW Persson’s novel, Can You Die Twice?. When a bullet ridden skull is found in the Swedish archipelago, DNA-results confirm it belongs to a victim of Thailand’s 2004 tsunami. Bäckström is faced with an inexplicable mystery that even he could not have imagined.