The Bridge is brilliant. 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 Canal+ collaboration due to commence shortly. 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. This dramedy series set in 1980 revolves around a group of recent college grads setting out to pursue their dreams in Manhattan while still clinging to the familiarity of their working-class Long Island home town. If you don’t normally watch European detective shows, this storyline could fall anywhere on the scale from unremarkable to mildly interesting. 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. Admittedly, the view will not be quite so amazing. What is often missing from these debates is discussion around who profits from remakes. Since then tunnels and tunnel construction have come a long way. 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? Two body halves, two victims, two detectives, a truth terrorist and loads of dead people. Apparently negotiations are in the black hole of the EU tunnel or should that be on the back of the fantasy of the Boris Bridge? The Bridge of the Horns is a proposed bridge that will … And that’s because it’s both. The Tunnel is a French/British remake of Danish/Swedish TV series The Bridge, which began in 2011 and opened with the discovery of a body laid across the Sweden/Denmark border in the middle of the Øresund Bridge. The tunnel concept for crossing the Duwamish River is not new. 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 similarities don’t stop there. It will never convey people from one side of it to the other. She is also working on a PhD on gender in Cormac McCarthy's fiction. Move over Boris Bridge, if you want to get from Scotland to Northern Ireland and back, burrowing is the way to go. In fact it was discussed after the previous West Seattle Bridge was put out of commission by the freighter impact in 1978. A body is found in the Eurotunnel, neatly laid across the border between France and England. TV review: The Tunnel: Vengeance, Sky Atlantic (22 Nov 2017) Third and final series for the French-English remake of Nordic noir The Bridge If the first episode gets you hooked in, and you can’t wait … Adapted by an Anglo-French team led by Spooks, Party Animals and Outcasts writer Ben Richards, and made by Kudos and Shine France Films, The Tunnel is set against the backdrop of Europe in crisis, with the killer using elaborate methods to highlight the moral bankruptcy of modern society. 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. When police attempt to move the body, it splits in two with the top half in France and lower half in England, and DNA tests soon discover that each half belongs to a different victim. Join the KYD mailing list for great new reads every week, plus the latest news on events, giveaways, special offers and more. As with the Scandinavian original, the police are forced into an uneasy international alliance after a shocking crime scene discovery. It’s all available on Sky Box Sets. Julia Tulloh Harper is a writer in Melbourne. Brunel patented the tunnelling shield, a revolutionary advance in tunnelling technology, in January 1818. Completed in 1843, the Thames Tunnel was the first tunnel underwater anywhere in the world. We can’t talk about ‘originality’ without acknowledging that producers often willingly sell and adapt their own work. 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. TELEVISION (TV), in some cases abbreviated to tele or television, is … (I watched it years ago but didn't remember the same plot when watching the bridge). The Tunnel, Sky Atlantic. The Hampton Roads Bridge–Tunnel (HRBT) is a 3.5-mile (5.6 km)-long Hampton Roads crossing for Interstate 64 and U.S. Route 60. Its premise – a body found on a border – is a rich starting point for exploring themes around international relations and homicide policy. 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. Simply choose your political context of choice, add star power that will attract the desired audience (The Tunnel stars Stephen Dillane, better known as Stannis Baratheon, and Clémence Poésy, who you may know as Fleur Delacour), and you’ve got a series almost guaranteed to attract attention. 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. The Scandi noir that redefined TV drama.