Wallander (British TV series)

Wallander
Opening titles
Genre	Crime
Based on	Kurt Wallander novels by Henning Mankell
Screenplay by	Richard Cottan Peter Harness Richard McBrien
Directed by	Philip Martin Niall MacCormick Benjamin Caron
Starring	Kenneth Branagh
Opening theme	"Nostalgia" by Emily Barker
Composers	Martin Phipps Vince Pope
Country of origin	United Kingdom Sweden
Original language	English
No. of series	4
No. of episodes	12 (list of episodes) Preview warning: Page using Template:Infobox television with "list_episodes" parameter using self-link. See Infobox instructions and MOS:INFOBOXPURPOSE.
Production
Executive producers	Francis Hopkinson Anne Mensah Rebecca Eaton Hans-Wolfgang Jurgen Anni Faurby Ole Søndberg Kenneth Branagh Andy Harries
Producers	Daniel Ahlqvist Simon Moseley Sanne Wohlenberg
Production locations	Ystad, Sweden Skåne, Sweden
Cinematography	Anthony Dod Mantle Jan Jonaeus Igor Martinovic Lukas Strebel
Editors	Tony Cranstoun Kristina Hetherington Tim Porter
Running time	89 minutes
Production companies	Left Bank Pictures Yellow Bird TKBC
Original release
Network	BBC One BBC HD (2008–10)
Release	30 November 2008 (2008-11-30) – 5 June 2016 (2016-06-05)
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Wallander is a British television series broadcast from 2008 to 2016. It was adapted from a Swedish series based on the Swedish novelist Henning Mankell's Kurt Wallander novels and starring Kenneth Branagh as the eponymous police inspector. It was the first time the Wallander novels had been adapted into an English-language production. Yellow Bird, a production company formed by Mankell, began negotiations with British companies to produce the adaptations in 2006. In 2007 Branagh met Mankell to discuss playing the role. Contracts were signed and work began on the films, adapted from the novels Sidetracked, Firewall and One Step Behind, in January 2008. Emmy-award-winning director Philip Martin was hired as lead director. Martin worked with cinematographer Anthony Dod Mantle to establish a visual style for the series.

The first three-episode series, produced by Yellow Bird, Left Bank Pictures and TKBC for BBC Scotland, was broadcast on BBC One in November and December 2008. The second series was filmed from July to October 2009 and was broadcast in January 2010.^[1] The third series was filmed in the summer of 2011 in Ystad, Scania, Sweden and Riga, Latvia,^[2] and aired in July 2012.^[3] The fourth and final series was shot from October 2014 to January 2015 and premiered on German TV, dubbed into German, in December 2015. The final series aired in the original English on BBC One in May 2016. Critics have written positively of the series, which has won a Broadcasting Press Guild Award (Best Actor for Branagh) and six British Academy Television Awards, including Best Drama Series.