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Sofia Helin as Iris, in “Fallen” (Sanningen). Photo: Carolina Romare. Courtesy of MHz Choice

Regular readers will recognize the name Sofia Helin from previous Scandinavian crime series reviews, including the highly praised original incarnation of “The Bridge.” The ultra busy actress stars in “Fallen” (originally “Sanningen”) as yet another police detective, Iris, in a solid six-episode season procedural. In this vehicle, she’s carrying more emotional baggage than usual.

She arrives in Malmo to head up their cold-case unit, reeling from the unsolved murder of her boyfriend in Stockholm. She’s immediately greeted with the unearthing of an old corpse that might have been a teenager who’d disappeared 18 years earlier. That triggers reopening the previous investigation, which proceeds while awaiting forensic confirmation of the remains. Is it Benjamin, or someone else? Several old wounds are opened and potential suspects identified. Meanwhile, Iris tries to help with finding who murdered her beloved Christian,...

One of Banijay’s scripted centrepieces at the London TV Screenings, the Swedish crime drama “Fallen” (“Sanningen”), sees the first reunion of star actor Sofia Helin, writer Camilla Ahlgren, and Stockholm-based Filmlance International since the multi-season hit crime show “The Bridge” (2011-2018).

Their collaboration has paid off again as “Fallen” has wooed a first batch of global sellers – including MHz Choice for the U.S. and Canal+’s Polar+ for France – and more than 1.1 million combined viewers watched the first episode on Swedish commercial broadcaster TV4 last Christmas.

“This is 1/10of the Swedish population, which is astonishing these days, considering the series is based on an original idea,” said producer Anna Wallmark of Banijay-owned Filmlance.

Created by Ahlgren, who serves as head-writer, next to co-writers Martin Asphaug and Alex Haridi, the six-part series is, however, a very different type of noir to the cross-border iconic “The Bridge,” Lighter, more emotional.