26 November 2018 (2018-11-26) – 10 October 2022 (2022-10-10)
The Crimson Rivers (French:Les Rivières pourpres) is a French-language crime thriller television series created byJean-Christophe Grangé and follows Grangé's 1998 novelBlood Red Rivers and its2000 film adaptation. It has been broadcast inRomandy since 6 September 2018 onRTS 1, in Belgium and France, from 26 November 2018 to 10 October 2022 onFrance 2,[1][2] and in Germany since 5 November 2018 onZDF.
Following the events in Guernon[1], Commissioner Pierre Niemans (Olivier Marchal) is transferred to head the Central Office Against Crimes of Blood (OCCS). He teams up with a former and best student Camille Delaunay (Erika Sainte). The commissioner regards her as his daughter. Together they will crack the most difficult cases.
Olivier Marchal: Commissioner Pierre Niemans (seasons 1–4), a legend of the French police, despite certain tensions with his hierarchy and his sometimes dubious respect for protocol. Without a wife or a child, Niemans gives body and soul to his investigations and never gives up, always pushing his own limits. But beneath his rigid cop looks hides a generous, deeply good man who has spent his life tracking down the evil side of man.
Erika Sainte: Lieutenant Camille Delaunay (seasons 1–4), is Niemans' female counterpart, who is a lieutenant and his best student at the police academy and treats her as the daughter he never had, and she crosses paths with him during investigations that seals into an elite tandem. Beneath her energetic traits, she is meticulous and fierce. Her love and admiration for Niemans make her a staunch ally, who doesn't hesitate to risk her life for the one who taught her everything.
In July 2017,Olivier Marchal was chosen to play the character of commissioner Pierre Niemans.[6] Grangé originally wantedJean Reno in the series, but "everyone considered that he was too old for the role" as he explained in an interview, in November 2018.[7]
The actressErika Sainte is chosen by the author for the role of Lieutenant Camille Delaunay, after spotting her in the seriesBaron Noir.[8]
Filming began in November 2017 inNamur Province,Walloon Brabant and inBrussels, Belgium.[9] The religious site visible in many scenes is the former Abbey of Marche-les-Dames.
"The Children's Crusade" was shot partly in theCharleroi region. The Collège du Christ-Roi[10] in Ottignies serves as the backdrop for the Saint Vincent Institute.
The Province of Namur serves as the backdrop for "The Last Hunt": the Château Bayard (inÉghezée) as well as a modernist villa[11] from 1927, in a 4 hectares (430,000 ft2) wooded park in Blaimont (inHastière), located a few kilometres from the French border andDinant.
In "Songs of Darkness", some scenes were shot at the hotel "Les trois 3 clés" inGembloux. The CBR building inWatermael-Boitsfort, a building by Belgian architect Constantin Brodzki, inaugurated in the early 1970s, was selected for the scenes of the police station.
The shooting of "Lune noire" took place inPicardy, partly inAult-Onival,[12] its cliffs, the esplanade under the storm, and the former Derloche-Cantevelle locksmith factory which transformed into a gendarmerie, and mainly inHesdin –Pas-de-Calais in the villa Debruyne,[13] also called “Château Dalle”, bequeathed in 2016 with its 7,000 square metres (75,000 ft2) park to the town of Hesdin.
For "XXY", the shooting took place inVresse-sur-Semois, Belgium, in August 2020.[14]
Filming of the first two episodes of Kovenkore began on February 16, 2022, for a duration of 45 days inBelgium in theProvince of Namur, notably inViroinval, at the Olloy-sur-Viroin cemetery.[15][16][17]
Filming of the next two episodes took place from April 25, 2022 to May 26, 2022 inAquitaine, particularly around theArcachon Bay.[18]
Filming of the fifth and sixth episodes took place from May 30, 2022 to June 28, 2022 inGironde, notably inBordeaux.[19]
In the United Kingdom, it aired onMore4 on 11 January 2019 as part ofWalter Presents.[20] The second season aired on 20 August 2021.[21]
In Australia, it was released onSBS' on-demand serviceSBS On Demand on the 26 December 2019;[22] it aired on the main channel on 14 April 2021.[23] Season 2 was released in March 2020 in the streaming service;[24] and later aired on television on 6 December of the following year in SBS.[25]
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