Dicte (broadcast in the UK as Dicte – Crime Reporter) is a Danish series starring Iben Hjejle as crime reporter Dicte Svendsen, who has returned to her hometown of Aarhus following a divorce.
The series is based on Danish author Elsebeth Egholm's series of novels about the title character.
In the UK the first season was broadcast on More4 in mid-2016 as five feature-length episodes under the title Dicte - Crime Reporter,[2] followed by the second season in mid-2017, and the third starting July 2018.
[3] 1.32 million viewers tuned into the first season's premiere in Denmark.
Some critics complained that most of the actors' Copenhagen accents were not authentic for a show set in Aarhus, while other actors' accents were so overblown they seemed caricatures.