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Meet TV's new Inspector Morse ... he's grumpy, a big drinker and, oh yes, he's Swedish
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STEP aside, Rebus and Morse. The actor Kenneth Branagh, perennial
darling of the English stage, is bringing a grumpy, diabetic, hard-
drinking Swedish detective to the small screen.
BBC Scotland's drama department will oversee production of a GBP
6 million TV series based on the best-selling Inspector Wallander
novels by Sweden's Henning Mankell.
Branagh, dubbed a leading "luvvie" of the British acting world,
first found fame in 1989 as a Shakespearean actor in his film of
Henr...
