HinterlandY Gwyll in the original Welsh-language version is a Welshnoir police detective drama series broadcast on S4C in the Welsh language. The main character, DCI Tom Mathias, is played by Richard Harrington. On 27 November 2013, a second series was announced by S4C. The English-language version, with brief passages of Welsh dialogue, aired on BBC One Wales. When it was shown on the BBC in 2014, it was the first BBC television drama with dialogue in both English and Welsh. A third series of the show began filming in January 2016 and debuted on S4C on 30 October. The programme is set in Aberystwyth, Ceredigion, Wales, and the three series were filmed in and around the town, often in rural locations.
Production
The series reflects the commitment made in April 2013 by the Director of BBC Cymru Wales, Rhodri Talfan Davies, to show more Welsh language, life, and culture on the mainstream BBC channels. On a tight budgetfunds that took two and a half years to raisethe total production cost was £4.2 million. The programme-makers received £215,000 in repayable business funding from the Welsh Government, and the first series was mainly filmed in Aberystwyth and the surrounding county of Ceredigion on the west coast of Wales, over a 124‑day period in 2013. The show was filmed in both Welsh and English, with the location-based production offices contained within the former Ceredigion Council offices Swyddfa'r Sir, which also acts as the external scene of the show's police station. Each scene is filmed twice, in the English and Welsh languages, apart from a few scenes where Welsh with subtitles is used for the English version. The Welsh version was broadcast on S4C in October 2013, with the bilingual version broadcast on BBC One Wales in January 2014 and on BBC Four later that year. The broadcaster that produced The Killing, Danmarks Radio, acquired the rights in 2012 to broadcast the show in Denmark, before filming had commenced.
Belgium: the Flemish public broadcasting organization VRT started airing the Welsh-language version on 14 July 2014.
Denmark: DR broadcast the bilingual version, with the title "Mord i Wales", on 12, 19 and 26 May and 2 June 2014.
Finland: YLE premiered the bilingual version, with the title "Syrjäinen maa", on 12 October 2014.
A German-dubbed version, with the title Inspector Mathias – Mord in Wales, started on German television Das Erste on 12 July 2015.
Norway: NRK premiered the bilingual version on 11 April 2014.
Poland: Ale Kino+ premiered the bilingual version, titled Hinterland, on 5 November 2014, and has broadcast all three series.
Slovenia: The bilingual version premiered on RTVSLO, their public broadcaster on 14 April 2014, with the title "Zločini v Walesu". The four-part first series continued on 21, 28 April and 5 May respectively. The first series was repeated the following year in April and May.
The Netherlands: KRO premiered the bilingual version on 20 May 2014. The second series started to broadcast on 16 July 2017.
United Kingdom: The bilingual version was first screened UK-wide on BBC Four in 2014, with the first series broadcasting from 28 April until 19 May 2014. The second series was broadcast from 23 April until 21 May 2016. The first series aired on Monday nights, whereas the second series aired on Saturday nights.
France: Broadcast on Netflix in a French version and a Breton version on local channels, Tébéo, Tébésud et TVR, with French subtitles
Ireland: TG4 aired the first series in the summer of 2017 and the second series in the summer of 2018
Netflix
On-demand streaming service Netflix streams the English-language Hinterland series online across Japan, Taiwan, India, Thailand, South Africa, Israel, North America, South America, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. The version available on Netflix differs from those originally transmitted in the United Kingdom: it is almost exclusively an English-language version, and two part episodes are combined. The three seasons are available to stream on Netflix.
