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Coverstory NEW CRIME DRAMA Sadly, the dream sours quickly when the dog discovers a skeleton Wallander in Wallander's backyard, under Sunday, eaci HD,9pm some blackberry bushes. 'You might say it's cosmically funny, the In his role as all-round disaster- idea of a body ending up in his magnet Kurt Wallander, Kenneth garden to ruin his dream: says the Branagh has seen plenty of 51-year-old, with a dark chuckle. reasons to explain the Swedish 'Wallander is a comparatively detective's famously morose rational man, but even he starts to demeanour, from divorce and think: "Is it fate? Is somebody up alcoholism to his father's battle there pointing their finger at me with Alzheimer's disease and his and saying, 'You'll never be own multiple meltdowns, not to happy?'" I mean, it's not just a mention the frequent grisly and terrible event; it's literally in his violent scenes he experiences own back garden.' doing the day job. It's not the only nasty surprise in But even Branagh was shocked store. The mysterious death of a by the woes that befall Wallander young woman on a ferry prompts in the new third series of the hit another murder inquiry, and Swedish thriller, which starts on detective Ann-Britt Hoglund BBC 1 this week. 'I remember (Sarah Smart) is attacked during getting the draft of the first the investigation following an episode,' says the freshly knighted error of judgement by her actor as we meet to discuss the colleague. 'I can't tell you what it latest three- part run. He recalls costs her, but Wallander's breaking how, after finishing it, he shook of the rules has a terrible price: another generation ofWallanders: 'Previously, I'd been in a little his head and groaned: 'This is the Branagh hints. 'So he carries this Branagh explains. house on my own, which was a bleakest thing I've everread ...' guilt into episode two.' Surprisingly, both films also pretty isolated experience: he And yet everything starts off so If this sounds too gloomy, don't feature romance for the gloomy reveals. 'I wanted to be able to walk well, as in the worry. The series detective. 'The law of averages says down to the edge of the water and first episode, An 'I think Wallander will brighten up that some women fancy Wallander,' feel the wind on roy face, to sort of Event in Autumn, a bit, Branagh Branagh laughs. 'I think he would blow this man right out of my hair.' Wallander is in a would like to have promises, partly like to have more sex but, essentially, In London, Branagh's mood was good place. He because he's a romantic. So, in part, this further lifted last month when he has moved to the more sex but, Wallander isn't series is about Wallander, in the face was awarded a knighthood in the countryside with facing such of unbelievably bad luck, trying to Queen's Birthday Honours List. 'I his girlfriend, essentially, ghastly personal pursue romantic adventures.' came back to the house, and there Vanja, her son issues in the Branagh says he is getting better was a very large envelope which and a friendly he's a romantic' subsequent two at living with his miserable alter said Cabinet Office all over it: he pooch, police' episodes. The ego. During series one' and two, he says. 'I wondered whether it was an work has taken a backseat in his second, The Dogs of Riga, is an distanced himself by watching incredibly overdue parking fine life and he is off the booze ... espionage drama in which the comedies or 'visiting flower shows'. that I wasn't aware of.' Branagh says he even had to murder of two mafia members For the new run, he rented a seaside Branagh's busy schedule means scribble the word 'smile' on his leads him to Latvia. The third, villa near Ystad in Sweden, where it may be some time before he script to remind himself to lighten Before the Frost, sees the return of the show is filmed, with his wife, revisits Wallander, the longest- up. 'We begin with the possibility Wallander's daughter Linda (Jeany art director Lindsay Brunnock. running character he has played of some sunshine,' he admits. Spark) when a childhood friend of on screen. His next project is a film 'Wallander's starting a new life. hers goes missing. 'It is about the version of Wallander creator He's got the dog, the girlfriend great business of getting on with Henning Mankell's novel Italian and the kid, and he's even smiling. life, his relationship with his Shoes, set on a Swedish island and. He's trying, as it were, to get home.' daughter and the possibility of starring Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench. However, Mankell insists that there will be a fourth run of the The Wallander effect series. 'I know Ken is keen to Dark, subtitled, foreign author Henning Mankell's That success has continue,' he says, adding that, dramas becoming Wallander novels. also seen actors from although the next run is likely to must-see TV? Four years The BBC followed that in Scandinavia crossing feature the final Wallander novel, ago, you would have put 2009 with the Swedish over to British TV, from The Troubled Man, it wouldn't more money on ABBA version of Wallander, Sofie Grabol (Sarah Lund) In MankeWs view, they necessarily spell the end for reforming. But that was starring Krister Henriksson, popping up in the Ab Fab owe a huge debt to both Branagh's take on the character. before Kenneth Branagh and viewers have since Christmas special to her Branagh and the BBe. 'It 'Without mentioning the names, helped turn UK viewers on gobbled up Danish The Killing co-star Soren was a revolution the BBC I think there are stories I wrote to Scandinavian crime offerings TheKilling, Borgen Mailing (Jan Meyer) playing started,' he says. 'And Ken some 15 years ago that it might drama in 2008, when he and Those Who Kill, aswell an undercover cop in a has been the locomotive, if interest him to do,' he says, starred in the first British asthe Swedish-Danish forthcoming episode of you like, dragging all the smiling. For Branagh, it appears adaptation of Swedish co-production TheBridge. Branagh's Wallander. wagons behind him.' Wallander's on-screen trials and tribulations aren't over quite yet •.. BBC7HD,9pm Kenneth Branagh's Swedish sleuth finds his latest case close to home when he discovers a skeleton buried in his garden Wallander CRIME DRAMA BBCT HD, 9pm The first of three new investigations featuring Kenneth Branagh as author Henning MankeWsgloomy Swedish detective. See feature, page 4.