MTG Reboots Those Who Kill as Viaplay Original

MTG Studios has set the psychological crime drama Those Who Kill, based on a successful Danish series, as its next original.

In the series, a detective and a psychologist faced with a series of shocking killings in Denmark struggle to figure out not whodunnit, but why. Those Who Kill is slated to launch exclusively on MTG’s Nordic video streaming service Viaplay and on MTG’s TV channel TV3 in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in early 2019.

The drama stars Kenneth M. Christensen (The Legacy) and Natalie Madueño (Follow the Money). The eight-part series is directed by Carsten Myllerup (Black Widows) and is written by Ina Bruhn (Dicte), Per Daumiller (Below the Surface) and Tine Krull Petersen (Dicte).

The first season garnered more than 1 million viewers per episode when shown on Denmark’s TV2 in 2011. Miso Film, the production company behind season one, returns to produce the new series. Those Who Kill will be distributed worldwide by FremantleMedia International.

Jakob Mejlhede, MTG’s executive VP and head of programming and content development, daid: “Season one of this fantastic format held an entire country spellbound. The refresh of Those Who Kill will be an even more unsettling, unrelenting and unmissable experience, as we continue to extend Viaplay’s position as the leading streaming service in the Nordic region.”