Successful crime thriller “Nord bei Nordwest”: The new season starts on this day

New episodes of the ARD crime series “Nord bei Nordwest” have long been produced. As usual they run in January. When it starts.

In recent years, the ARD crime drama “Nord bei Nordwest” with Hinnerk Schönemann and Jana Klinge has attracted more than ten million fans to the screens. The series is therefore one of the strongest serial productions in the country – no wonder that the medium-term future of the format is secured. Production is now underway for 2026. In 2025, new episodes will be scheduled again in January, as Das Erste has now confirmed. The first new episode should be shown on Thursday, January 2, 2025, 8:15 p.m.

A Chinese citizen dies in a traffic accident. There is evidence that she was followed. A trail leads Hauke ​​Jakobs (Hinnerk Schönemann) to “Mandarin”, the newly opened Asian restaurant and guesthouse. Jule Christiansen (Marleen Lohse), who is missing two Dalmatians, has checked in here incognito to find out whether the menu is all right. As the plot progresses, she is useful to Hauke, but she also puts her life in danger. And Hannah Wagner (Jana Klinge)? Is in seventh heaven. Freshly back from vacation, she brings with her a man who has proposed to her.

Das Erste has already announced a new “Nord bei Nordwest” episode for January 9th. This then goes by the name “Hair? Hartmann!”. “Nord bei Nordwest” is one of the ARD Thursday thrillers, and an offshoot of it, “Nord bei Nordost”, celebrated its successful premiere in October. Also on Thursdays, Erste hosts numerous European crime stories. Investigations are taking place in Vienna, Ireland, Switzerland, Bolzano, Amsterdam – and also in several places in Germany. Teams of investigators are out in Passau or Usedom on Thursdays.

This is the crime schedule for the first on Thursday

However, ARD also has to save money here. Although she doesn’t want to stop a series as a result, she wants to stop a different production every year for just one year. This also means that the number of crime thriller premieres on Thursday evenings will be reduced slightly.