After a two-and-and-a-half-year journey at different networks with different writers, the drama adaptation of Leif G.W. Persson’s best-selling Backstrom series of books is finally heading to the ...

It seems like every other day now we hear about another pilot getting picked up for the fall TV season. Some of them sound great. Some of them ... eh, not so much. But the recent announcement that ...

Kristoffer Polaha is to appear opposite 24's Dennis Haysbert in new TV pilot Backstrom. The crime drama - penned by Bones exec Hart Hanson - follows overweight, uncouth detective Everett Backstrom.

Backstrom, based on the Swedish book series by Leif G. W. Persson, is a dark comedy-drama set in the criminally infested underbelly of Portland, Org. The show follows a fearless detective and his ...

When a new show’s ordered to pilot but not to series, the gut thought by most is there must be something wrong with the show itself - something that must be so clear to the people in charge that ...