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SATURDAY, December 1, 2018 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description Comprehensive international news updates every 30 minutes mixed with award winning special reports and exclusive magazine 10:00 PM AGATHA CHRISTIE'S CRIMINAL GAMES: WHY NOT programs. Distributed by France 24, broadcast in English. MARTIN? Avril comes across a man who is gravely injured after falling off a 9:00 PM FLEMMING: UNDER HER SPELL cliff and hears his last troubling words. Based on the novel Why After a life-size doll modeled on a female jazz singer is found buried Didn't They Ask Evans? Directed by Marc Angelo, 2013. (Repeats in a coffin, a military officer with mental issues becomes a person of 12/5 at 1:00am and 12/5 at 4:00am) interest. Directed by Zoltan Spirandelli, 2009. (Repeats 12/2 at 12:00am and 12/2 at 3:00am) 12:00 AM FOURTH MAN, THE: EPISODE 02 An intelligence tip helps the team uncover the identity of the fourth 10:00 PM FANTOMAS: THE STREETCAR PHANTOM Swedish accomplice. Directed by Kristian Petri, 2014. (Repeats 12/5 Fandor is not only mistaken for a king but framed for murder by at 3:00am) Fantômas, leaving Inspector Juve to prove his innocence. Directed by Claude Chabrol, 1980. (Repeats 12/2 at 1:00am and 12/2 at WEDNESDAY, December 5, 2018 4:00am) 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE 11:30 PM WALLANDER'S WORLD See December 1 description Detective is one of the most popular figures in modern Scandinavian crime fiction. This program traces the 9:00 PM DETECTIVES: DOUBLE LIVES character's development and appeal, through interviews with During a photography exhibition, the curator receives a mysterious author and actor Krister Henriksson, plus the phone call and collapses into a hallucinatory state, besieged by producers who brought his adventures to TV audiences around the visions. Unable to cope, she contacts Roche and Son to investigate. world. An MHz Networks original production. They discover the phone call came from someone in her husband's past, which he has taken great pains to hide. (Repeats 12/6 at 12:00 AM FLEMMING: UNDER HER SPELL 12:00am and 12/6 at 3:00am) See December 1 description (Repeats 12/2 at 3:00am) 10:00 PM DETECTIVES: THE HONEY TRAP SUNDAY, December 2, 2018 Roche and Son discover that a mole has infiltrated a major pharmaceutical client. Nora and Philippe come up with a plan to put 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE on a fake business seminar in Versailles, then observe and mingle See December 1 description with employees of the company to weed out the mole. Meanwhile, an eleven-year-old boy enlists the agency to help find his missing 11:00 PM THICKER THAN WATER: SEASON TWO, EPISODE 03 parents. (Repeats 12/6 at 1:00am and 12/6 at 4:00am) Oskar realizes he must end his relationship with Petra; Lasse receives an emergency call from Kim. Directed by Erik Leijonborg, 11:00 PM INSPECTOR MANARA 2016. (Repeats 12/3 at 2:00am and 12/3 at 5:00am) (Repeats 12/6 at 2:00am and 12/6 at 5:00am)

12:00 AM BECK 12:00 AM DETECTIVES: DOUBLE LIVES (Repeats 12/3 at 3:00am and 12/31 at 1:30am) See December 5 description (Repeats 12/6 at 3:00am)

MONDAY, December 3, 2018 THURSDAY, December 6, 2018

8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description See December 1 description

11:00 PM ANDREA CAMILLERI: THE WILD MAESTRO 10:00 PM OCTOPUS, THE (LA PIOVRA) SEASON 1: EPISODE 2 In a luminous documentary from RAI, actress Teresa Mannino When a transfer to Sicily for Michele Placido’s Inspector Corrado interviews Andrea Camilleri, author of the “Detective Cattani and his family puts him right in the middle of Cosa Nostra Montalbano” books, about his life, writing and the irascible involvement with a narcotics ring and a major bank scandal, can detective who captured the hearts of readers and viewers around death threats be far behind? And then the Mafia escalates… The the world. Directed by Claudio Canepari and Paolo Santolini, 2014. In first of 10 Octopus miniseries. Directed by , Italian with English subtitles. (Repeats 12/4 at 2:00am and 12/4 at 1984, color. In Italian with English subtitles. 5:00am) 11:00 PM GODLESS, THE: SPECTRE 12:00 AM NERO WOLFE Petty criminal Mitchell is about to be released from jail for good (Repeats 12/4 at 3:00am and 12/5 at 1:00pm) behavior. Directed by David Lammers, 2011. (Repeats 12/7 at 2:00am and 12/7 at 5:00am) TUESDAY, December 4, 2018 Dec 2018 Primetime Listings – 57.2

12:00 AM OCTOPUS, THE (LA PIOVRA) SEASON 1: EPISODE 1 Johan Falk infiltrates one of Sweden’s toughest criminal gangs When a transfer to Sicily for Michele Placido’s Inspector Corrado and discovers someone is plotting to acquire armor-piercing Cattani and his family puts him right in the middle of Cosa Nostra grenades -which could lead to war on the streets of Gothenburg. involvement with a narcotics ring and a major bank scandal, can Directed by Anders Nilsson, 2009. (Repeats 12/11 at 12:00am and death threats be far behind? And then the Mafia escalates… The 12/11 at 3:00am) first of 10 Octopus miniseries. Directed by Damiano Damiani, 1984, color. In Italian with English subtitles. (Repeats 12/7 at 10:35 PM A CONVERSATION WITH 3:00am) (Repeats 12/11 at 11:34pm and 12/19 at 5:30am)

FRIDAY, December 7, 2018 12:00 AM JOHAN FALK: BROTHERS IN ARMS See December 10 description (Repeats 12/11 at 3:00am) 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description TUESDAY, December 11, 2018

10:00 PM TATORT: BOROWSKI: BOROWSKI AND THE COOL DOG 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE Two seemingly unrelated cases bring Germany and Sweden together See December 1 description to catch a serial killer. Directed by Christian Alvart, 2011. (Repeats 12/8 at 1:00am and 12/8 at 4:00am) 10:00 PM AGATHA CHRISTIE'S CRIMINAL GAMES: MURDER AT THE KERMESSE 11:30 PM MONTALBANO: FROM PAGE TO SCREEN Chief Inspector Laurence is left temporarily blind after a gunfight, The cast and crew of "Detective Montalbano" discuss the process of but is determined to still solve the case of a drowned child. Based on adapting Andrea Camilleri's books for the TV audience. An MHz the Hercule Poirot novel Hallowe'en Party. Directed by Eric Woreth, Networks Original Production, 2013. In Italian with English subtitles. 2013. (Repeats 12/12 at 1:00am and 12/12 at 4:00am)

12:00 AM FLEMMING: SONG OF SONGS 11:34 PM A CONVERSATION WITH LUCA ZINGARETTI A father of three is found dead shortly after announcing a change in (Repeats 12/19 at 5:30am) his will to leave everything to his second wife. Directed by Zoltan Spirandelli, 2009. (Repeats 12/8 at 3:00am) WEDNESDAY, December 12, 2018

SATURDAY, December 8, 2018 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 9:00 PM DETECTIVES: ABOU'S SMILE When a mysterious man approaches the home of a suburban family 10:00 PM ANTI-DRUG SQUAD: SEASON TWO, EPISODE 01 and flees, their adopted son, Yared, is traumatized by the event. The Anti-Mafia squad learns that the Abates plan to take over Philippe and Nora are hired to investigate, and struggle to identify 's drug trade. Directed by Beniamino Catena, 2010. (Repeats the man and his relationship with Yared.. (Repeats 12/13 at 12:00am 12/9 at 1:00am and 12/9 at 4:00am) and 12/13 at 3:00am)

12:00 AM FLEMMING: SCORCHED EARTH 10:00 PM DETECTIVES: REINVESTIGATION Flemming is called to investigate a suspicious suicide, but soon Valentine, a former professor, was convicted for the murder of her uncovers something much worse. Directed by Zoltan Spirandelli, alleged lover. Her family, convinced of her innocence, hire Roche 2009. (Repeats 12/9 at 3:00am) and Son for a private investigation in order to successfully appeal the sentence. Meanwhile, a grandmother enlists the agency to look SUNDAY, December 9, 2018 into the frequent disappearances of her husband. (Repeats 12/13 at 1:00am and 12/13 at 4:00am) 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 11:00 PM INSPECTOR MANARA (Repeats 12/13 at 2:00am and 12/13 at 5:00am) 11:00 PM THICKER THAN WATER: SEASON TWO, EPISODE 04 Oskar fears the truth behind his father's disappearance will be 12:00 AM DETECTIVES: ABOU'S SMILE revealed. Directed by Erik Leijonborg, 2016. (Repeats 12/10 at See December 12 description (Repeats 12/13 at 3:00am) 2:00am and 12/10 at 5:00am) THURSDAY, December 13, 2018 12:00 AM BECK (Repeats 12/10 at 3:00am) 9:00 PM OCTOPUS, THE (LA PIOVRA) SEASON 1: EPISODE 3 When a transfer to Sicily for Michele Placido’s Inspector Corrado MONDAY, December 10, 2018 Cattani and his family puts him right in the middle of Cosa Nostra involvement with a narcotics ring and a major bank scandal, can 9:00 PM JOHAN FALK: BROTHERS IN ARMS death threats be far behind? And then the Mafia escalates… The first of 10 Octopus miniseries. Directed by Damiano Damiani, Dec 2018 Primetime Listings – 57.2

1984, color. In Italian with English subtitles. (Repeats 12/14 at team infiltrates the crime syndicate, composed of ex-KGB officers 12:00am and 12/14 at 3:00am) – and find themselves in a deadly trap. Directed by Richard Holm, 2009. (Repeats 12/18 at 12:00am and 12/18 at 3:00am) 11:00 PM GODLESS, THE: WEED Two friends who used to date have mixed the business of illegal 10:40 PM BRUNETTI: DONNA LEON INTERVIEW marijuana growing and their personal lives. Directed by Pieter Author Donna Leon talks about the Commissario Brunetti mysteries, Kuijpers, 2011. (Repeats 12/14 at 2:00am and 12/14 at 5:00am) Venice and more. In English. (Repeats 12/19 at 2:40am)

12:00 AM OCTOPUS, THE (LA PIOVRA) SEASON 1: EPISODE 3 11:00 PM SPRING TIDE: EPISODE 06 See December 13 description (Repeats 12/14 at 3:00am) Mette sends Abbas to Costa Rica to learn more about the mysterious Nils Wendt. Directed by Pontus Klänge, Niklas Ohlson, FRIDAY, December 14, 2018 Mattias Ohlsson, 2016. (Repeats 12/18 at 2:00am and 12/18 at 5:00am) 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 12:00 AM JOHAN FALK: NATIONAL TARGET See December 17 description (Repeats 12/18 at 3:00am) 10:00 PM TATORT: BOROWSKI: BOROWSKI AND THE SILENT GUEST A woman is found murdered in her home, but there are no traces of TUESDAY, December 18, 2018 an intruder. Directed by Christian Alvart, 2012. (Repeats 12/15 at 1:00am and 12/15 at 4:00am) 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 11:30 PM MAKING MONTALBANO: BEHIND THE SCENES WITH SICILY'S FAVORITE DETECTIVE 10:00 PM AGATHA CHRISTIE'S CRIMINAL GAMES: CARDS ON THE (Repeats 12/22 at 5:30am) TABLE Chief Inspector Laurence and Alice Avril are invited to a special 12:00 AM FLEMMING: STAGES OF LUST diner, involving unsolved crimes and a mysterious host. Based on After a young woman is strangled, robbed and left for dead, the Hercule Poirot novel. Directed by Eric Woreth, 2013. Flemming doubts that it was done by the most obvious suspect. Directed by Bernhard Stephan, 2011. (Repeats 12/15 at 3:00am) 12:00 AM ANTARCTICA (Repeats 12/19 at 3:00am) SATURDAY, December 15, 2018 WEDNESDAY, December 19, 2018 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 10:00 PM ANTI-DRUG SQUAD: SEASON TWO, EPISODE 02 Ivan holds back on providing information Claudia wants for proving 9:00 PM DETECTIVES: THE VANISHED Rosy's Mafia involvement. Directed by Beniamino Catena, 2010. When a man contacts Roche and Son to help him find his missing (Repeats 12/16 at 1:00am and 12/16 at 4:00am) girlfriend, Nora turns the case down, believing it to only be a lovers' quarrel. Philippe, however, still upset at the departure of his wife, SUNDAY, December 16, 2018 agrees to help. (Repeats 12/20 at 12:00am and 12/20 at 3:00am)

8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE 10:00 PM DETECTIVES: GALE WARNING See December 1 description When Juliette, a widow, spots another woman bearing the signet of her husband, she begins to suspect he didn't really die at sea ten 11:00 PM THICKER THAN WATER: SEASON TWO, EPISODE 05 years ago. She enlists Roche and Son to get to the bottom of this Oskar and Liv attempt to reconcile and Kim makes a terrible maritime mystery. (Repeats 12/20 at 4:00am) discovery. Directed by Erik Leijonborg, 2016. (Repeats 12/17 at 2:00am and 12/17 at 5:00am) 12:00 AM DETECTIVES: THE VANISHED See December 19 description (Repeats 12/20 at 3:00am) 12:00 AM BECK (Repeats 12/17 at 3:00am and 12/31 at 10:30pm) THURSDAY, December 20, 2018

MONDAY, December 17, 2018 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 10:00 PM OCTOPUS, THE (LA PIOVRA) SEASON 1: EPISODE 6 When a transfer to Sicily for Michele Placido’s Inspector Corrado 9:00 PM JOHAN FALK: NATIONAL TARGET Cattani and his family puts him right in the middle of Cosa Nostra During a seizure of Estonian amphetamines, GSI realize they're involvement with a narcotics ring and a major bank scandal, can dealing with the legendary Russian mafia boss "Mr. K". Johan Falk's death threats be far behind? And then the Mafia escalates… The Dec 2018 Primetime Listings – 57.2 first of 10 Octopus miniseries. Directed by Damiano Damiani, real killer? Directed by Pelle Seth, 1997, color. In Swedish with 1984, color. In Italian with English subtitles. English subtitles. (Repeats 12/25 at 4:30am)

12:00 AM OCTOPUS, THE (LA PIOVRA) SEASON 1: EPISODE 5 TUESDAY, December 25, 2018 When a transfer to Sicily for Michele Placido’s Inspector Corrado Cattani and his family puts him right in the middle of Cosa Nostra 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE involvement with a narcotics ring and a major bank scandal, can See December 1 description death threats be far behind? And then the Mafia escalates… The first of 10 Octopus miniseries. Directed by Damiano Damiani, 10:30 PM BECK: THE MONSTER 1984, color. In Italian with English subtitles. (Repeats 12/21 at Responding to an anonymous threat, the Stockholm bomb squad 3:00am) detonates a suspicious suitcase. Inside the tattered remains of the bag, they discover the body of an infant. Beck leads the FRIDAY, December 21, 2018 investigation to hunt down the man responsible for this grizzly set- up…a man the newspapers dub “The Monster―. Directed 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE by Harald Hamrell, 1997, color. In Swedish with English subtitles. See December 1 description (Repeats 12/26 at 4:30am)

10:00 PM TATORT: BOROWSKI: BOROWSKI AND THE FREE FALL WEDNESDAY, December 26, 2018 An author's suspicious death appears linked to one of Germany's most famous unsolved murder cases. Directed by Eoin Moore, 2012. 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE (Repeats 12/22 at 1:00am and 12/22 at 4:00am) See December 1 description

11:30 PM : FROM PAGE TO SCREEN 10:32 PM BECK: THE MAN WITH NO FACE A man is found stabbed to death. The man’s widow claims a 12:00 AM FLEMMING: THE HOUSE OF MY LIFE mysterious foreigner knocked on their door the day before the Flemming investigates a blackmailer who threatens to kill a family's murder, but is that the real story? Beck and his team are on the children for financial gain. Directed by Bernhard Stephan, 2011. case. Directed by Harald Hamrell. 2001, color. In Swedish with (Repeats 12/22 at 3:00am) English subtitles. (Repeats 12/27 at 4:32am)

SATURDAY, December 22, 2018 THURSDAY, December 27, 2018

8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description See December 1 description

10:00 PM ANTI-DRUG SQUAD: SEASON TWO, EPISODE 03 10:30 PM BECK: THE AD MAN Claudia stages a murder to protect a key witness in her case against Someone is targeting women through personal ads on public Rosy. Directed by Beniamino Catena, 2010. (Repeats 12/23 at noticeboards. At first, the case seems like a cinch for Martin Beck 1:00am and 12/23 at 4:00am) and his team – until their discover the perp’s motives are far more complex... Directed by Daniel Lind Lagerlöf. 2001, color. SUNDAY, December 23, 2018 In Swedish with English subtitles. (Repeats 12/28 at 4:30am)

8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE FRIDAY, December 28, 2018 See December 1 description 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE 11:00 PM THICKER THAN WATER: SEASON TWO, EPISODE 06 See December 1 description Jonna is in shock after recent events; Lasse and Oskar make plans to dispose of the evidence. Directed by Anders Engström, 2016. 10:30 PM BECK: THE UNCLAIMED GIRL (Repeats 12/24 at 2:00am and 12/24 at 5:00am) A five-year-old girl is found dead in an old root cellar. She has been dead for some time, but who has recently left food for her? With no 12:00 AM BECK child reported missing in the area, Beck and his team turn to the (Repeats 12/24 at 3:00am) past to uncover the mystery. Directed by Harald Hamrell, 2006. In Swedish with English subtitles. (Repeats 12/29 at 4:30am) MONDAY, December 24, 2018 SATURDAY, December 29, 2018 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description 10:30 PM BECK: THE MAN WITH ICONS An elderly woman is found murdered. The prime suspect is her 10:30 PM BECK: THE WEAK LINK husband, a deeply-religious man who collects icons - but is he the The parents of a young woman discover the body of their daughter, brutally murdered in a public park. A review of other reported Dec 2018 Primetime Listings – 57.2 rape attacks in Stockholm shows that there is a link between the crime scenes and the Blue metro line – but is that link enough for Beck and his team to find the killer? Directed by by Harald Hamrell, 2007. In Swedish with English subtitles. (Repeats 12/30 at 4:30am)

SUNDAY, December 30, 2018

8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description

10:30 PM BECK: BURIED ALIVE Martin is caught in a cat-and-mouse game with a killer who buries his victims in wooden boxes. Directed by Harald Hamrell, 2009. (Repeats 12/31 at 4:30am)

MONDAY, December 31, 2018

8:00 PM FRANCE 24 LIVE See December 1 description

10:30 PM BECK