ORF AND ZDF CO-PRODUCE CRIME SERIES "SOKO LINZ"

Public Broadcasters ORF (Austria) and ZDF (Germany) started shooting its new coproduction “Soko Linz", a crime series that reunites a team of special investigators in the city of Linz, Austria’s industrial capital of steel.

Produced by Gebhardt Productions, “Soko Linz" is run as a police cooperation center that is deployed in the border triangle of Austria, Germany and the Czech Republic and also counts on the Austrian-German friendship in terms of personnel

Preparations for this new crime series edition are already in full swing in Linz and the surrounding area - the main filming location being a former tobacco factory and a total of 13 episodes is scheduled to air in 2022. ORF-Enterprise will handle the global distribution of the series.

Meanwhile, international audiences can look forward to the 20th and final season of the best-selling ratings hit “Soko Kitzbuehel” - set in the picturesque Austrian Alps - that is coming later this year. The series has lately been sold to Sky (Germany), Canal+ (France), RSI, RTS and SRF (Switzerland), Viacom (Italy), FTV Prima (Czech Republic), and LRT (Lithuania).