An Anglo-French bilingual version, with working title The Tunnel, will be made by Sky Atlantic and Canal+. "We're absolutely thrilled to be working with Canal+ and Kudos Film and TV on this exceptional series. It is a four-lane facility comprising bridges, trestles, man-made islands, and tunnels under the main shipping channels for Hampton Roads harbor in the southeastern portion of Virginia in the United States. Move over Boris Bridge, if you want to get from Scotland to Northern Ireland and back, burrowing is the way to go. A body is found in the Eurotunnel, neatly laid across the border between France and England. ", Fabrice De La Patellière, director of French fiction for Canal+ said: "This partnership combines Franco-British talents both in the writing and production of the drama … our objective is to develop a major series that is undeniably original and unique. Westminstenders: The Tunnel or Bridge (1000 Posts) Add message | Report. But at the time, it was not considered practical. Jane Featherstone, producer of The Tunnel and adaptor of The Bridge, has just reproduced her previous British crime drama Broadchurch for US audiences, under the new name Gracepoint. The Bridge of the Horns is a proposed bridge that will … When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK and France, presumably under the sea, detectives Karl Roebuck and Elise Wassermann are sent to investigate. The Tunnel vs The Bridge: The ethics of TV remakes. It sticks to the basics of the story, establishing Elise and Karl’s relationship as well as the far-reaching criminal plan of the villain. Crime fans hoping for an unlikely meeting of their favourite British and French detectives – DCI John Luther and Engrenage's Captain Laure Berthaud perhaps? We can call it a bridge, we can call it a tunnel, we can call it a strawberry blancmange and it remains the same. The Tunnel's journey into the mind of a politically motivated serial killer will really build on Sky Atlantic's ambition to be the home of world class storytelling. The Bridge (Danish: Broen Danish pronunciation: ; Swedish: Bron Swedish pronunciation: ) is a Nordic noir crime television series created and written by Hans Rosenfeldt.A joint creative and financed production between Sweden's Sveriges Television and Denmark's Danmarks Radio, it has been shown in more than 100 countries. As with all remakes, some fans have debated how well or badly the new show adheres to the original, whether or not it should have adhered to the original, and whether The Tunnel should have been made at all. French and British police team up to find the murderer, who soon anonymously proclaims that he’s a ‘truth terrorist’, and proceeds to murder or threaten people in service of his political ideals. When The Bridge premiered on BBC4 last spring, it outrated the channel's hugely discussed Danish crime thriller The Killing, with detectives Saga Noren and Martin Rhode fast capturing the imagination of UK viewers. Another week closer to complete meltdown. This doesn’t mean that The Bridge wasn’t interesting:on the contrary, the series was fascinating precisely because it demonstrated the differences and similarities between Scandinavian culture and the West. Stand at the entrance to the tunnel and see the treacle-like bitumen oozing through gaps in the walls. Completed in 1843, the Thames Tunnel was the first tunnel underwater anywhere in the world. The Tunnel riffs off of British and Franco mutual distrust and grudging respect. What is often missing from these debates is discussion around who profits from remakes. We watched The Tunnel afterwards but turned it off after a couple of minutes when we realised the English bloke was limping because of a vasectomy and had a nightmare an which is exactly how the bridge started. The Tunnel Sunday at 10:30 p.m., WGBH 2 “The Bridge,” which had two seasons on FX, has a cult of viewers who still grieve its cancellation in 2014. The Bridge. The Tunnel, the working title for a new 10-part Anglo-French co-production based on The Bridge format, is expected on screen later this year, with production on the Sky Atlantic and … TV series are remade all the time (think Kath & Kim, The Office and Shameless in the US) and in most cases, the writers and/or producers of the original are involved in the production of the remake. The Tunnel’s debut is well paced and a gripping hour.This may seem like a silly thing to say about a programme based on another recent programme, but it is The Bridge.Karl may be a … Both female detectives are young, blonde, and extremely asocial; both male detectives are charming, middle-aged philanderers (thankfully, though, there’s no romance between the detectives). If you do normally watch Euro crime, then The Tunnel probably sounds both riveting and suspiciously familiar. Two body halves, two victims, two detectives, a truth terrorist and loads of dead people. Admittedly, the view will not be quite so amazing. The American version of The Bridge shifted characters and added subplots (Emily Rios young journo was a particular treat), but the first episode of The Tunnel does not seem to care for any of those subversions just yet. It will never convey people from one side of it to the other. Even much of the dialogue is the same, and the first episode of The Tunnel seems to mirror The Bridge almost shot for shot, though the series’ plots diverge a little as they progress. "The state and future of the European Union has never been more part of the public conversation," said Anne Mensah, head of drama at Sky. Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant produced the US remake of The Office, for example – a venture that turned out to be extremely lucrative, since the US version ran for nine seasons. Stephan Dillane as DCI Karl Roebuck is terrific, brilliant and flawed, selfish and driven to justice. Nor the homewares quite so stylish. Watch Bridge and Tunnel Season 1 — Episode 6 (February 28,2021) — Full Episode Online. The attraction is open on Wednesdays during the summer as part of the Coalport China Museum site tour and visitors can view the Victorian curiosity from the entrance accompanied by a guide. She is also working on a PhD on gender in Cormac McCarthy's fiction. Join the KYD mailing list for great new reads every week, plus the latest news on events, giveaways, special offers and more. Boris Johnson now wants to press ahead with a tunnel to link the British mainland with Northern Ireland rather than a bridge, the Scottish Secretary has … The Tunnel, Sky Atlantic. Stretching from Hong Kong to Macao’s port and beyond to Zhuhai’s port, the HZMB ranks in the top 10 world’s longest bridges and runs for 42km, making it the longest bridge-and-tunnel sea crossing in the world. Punchbowl AM John Bresnahan, … The Zhuhai Link Road takes the HZMB’s length to a total of 55km. It carries trains as well as providing a shuttle service for … Since Chairman DeFazio is apparently eager to start working on an infrastructure package, with congressionally directed spending as a big part of it (as Punchbowl reports below), why does Speaker Pelosi and Leader Schumer insist on including their not-pandemic-related tunnel and bridge pet projects in what they claim is a bill for COVID?