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 ...

"Do you have time in this world to have a character change in an episodic drama where people don't give up on him too soon? And we'll find out. I'm hoping we have the time. We're gambling on it." By ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

VANCOUVER, BRITISH COLUMBIA: The rain is letting up as "Backstrom" crew members unload lights, cables, cameras and other gear from trucks parked on a busy street in a rundown part of Vancouver, B.C.

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 ...

On Backstrom Season 1 Episode 1 we met Everett Backstrom, an overweight, offensive detective who struggles with his self-destructive tendencies and is just one member of an eccentric team of ...