"The Undertaker": Third season coming in 2015
"Bestatter" fans can rejoice: Filming for the third season of the SRF crime series with actor Mike Müller in the title role will start in summer. The new episodes are to be broadcast at the beginning of 2015, as announced by Schweizer Fernsehen SRF on Wednesday.
On Tuesday (yesterday), mortician and former investigator Luc Condrad (Mike Müller) got involved in police work for the last time this year: The sixth and final episode of the second season was broadcast. In view of its great success, the SRF management has given the green light for the continuation, according to the press release. The six episodes achieved an average market share of 42.5 percent and 725,000 viewers
In addition to Mike Müller, the well-known leading actors will also be taking part in the next season, according to the press release: Barbara Terpoorten as Inspector Anna-Maria Giovanoli, Reto Stalder as mortician trainee Fabio Testi, Suly Röthlisberger as Erika Bürgisser, who looks after the funeral home, and Samuel Streiff as investigator Reto Doerig. Most of the filming for the third season will take place in Aargau. The third season will be "even more exciting and action-packed" than the second, Urs Fitze, Head of Fiction at SRF, is quoted as saying in the press release. (SDA)
