Endor Productions' hit Vienna Blood series commissioned for a third season

UK outfit Endor Productions and MR Film’s popular period crime drama series Vienna Blood has been commissioned for a third season and is set to start shooting in the Austrian capital from March.

The series, set in 1900s Vienna, has been commissioned by ORF (Austria) and ZDF (Germany) and acquired by BBC Two and PBS.

Produced by award-winning production company Endor Productions (Deep State, Anansi Boys), a Red Arrow Studios company, and MR Film in Austria (Maximilian, Das Sacher), the new episodes will again be adapted by acclaimed screenwriter Steve Thompson (Jericho, Sherlock, Deep State, Leonardo), based on the bestselling novels by Frank Tallis.

The series will be directed by Academy Award® and Emmy® nominee Robert Dornhelm (Anne Frank: The Whole Story), the lead director of the first two series of Vienna Blood.

The producers of Vienna Blood are Jez Swimer for Endor; Oliver Auspitz and Andreas Kamm for MR Film; commissioning editors are Klaus Lintschinger for ORF and Wolfgang Feindt for ZDF; executive producers are Steve Thompson; Hilary Bevan Jones and Carlo Dusi for Endor, and Rodrigo Herrera Ibarguengoytia for Red Arrow Studios International. The Hungarian service producers are Esther Turan and Viki Trepper of Moviebar Productions.

Jez Swimer, Producer, Endor Productions, said: “Vienna Blood’s fabulous combination of mystery, crime, the odd couple pairing of Matthew Beard’s psychiatrist Max Liebermann and Juergen Maurer’s Inspector Rheinhardt, and sumptuous 1907 Vienna has captivated viewers around the world. We are excited to deliver to deliver a new series of compelling stories to its growing global fanbase.”

Oliver Auspitz and Andreas Kamm of MR Film added:
“We are delighted that we will soon start shooting our third season of Vienna Blood, thanks to the trust and the support of commissioning broadcasters ORF and ZDF, and all our other funding partners, including Red Arrow Studios International, BBC2 and PBS. Steve Thompson has written three great new scripts and we are looking forward to continuing to meet the high expectations of our growing audience worldwide.”

Global distribution will be handled by Red Arrow Studios International.