Van Der Valk

Filming Van der Valk in Amsterdam is a dream job for Maimie McCoy – but will those great roles keep coming?

I had a massive schedule and lots of lines to learn, and I was suddenly left without childcare for 10 days.” He apologised to me every day after that!” She laughs that her autobiography could now be entitled “The Day I Went for a Drive in a Honey Wagon”. I want us to be allowed to age on screen and to celebrate that. McCoy wasn’t quite so amused when for one scene she had to lie in an Amsterdam back alley and a huge rat emerged from the darkness and scuttled across her face. If that had happened to him, he would have gone to hospital and had a tetanus injection!” But, as a tough Yorkshire woman and single mother to a young daughter, McCoy simply carried on. She recalls the day things did not go entirely to plan in the production’s mobile toilet, known on set as a “honey wagon”. Then, just as I was pulling my trousers up, I felt the truck shake and pull away. And as they got married at the end of a pier, I shoved a fake seagull on the top!” That gives the police officer a real emotional investment in the crime.” It’s important that we really show a connection between the victim and the detective. “We look at the toll crime takes on a police officer, the emotional cost. I just had to look and listen.

VAN DER VALK is back with a second season and the new episodes will show different sides of the main characters. Where is the detective series filmed?

Maimie McCoy plays Van Der Valk's colleague, Lucienne, and the star spoke exclusively to Express.co.uk about the filming locations. "Similarly, in the second film, we were aware that Amsterdam is famous for its diamonds and also wanted to tell a story about a family because we hadn’t done that kind of story before. Where is the detective series filmed? "And you have to try and make everything different and in some ways, I like the challenge of that even better." Van Der Valk is coming to ITV this weekend and it features Marc Warren as the title character. "The first film focuses on someone who is killing in ways that relate to the city: its flag, its logo and its most famous philosopher, Spinoza.

But Marc Warren, who's back in the lead role in Amsterdam-based thriller Van Der Valk, revealed it was made all the more tough when angry, real-life Dutch cops ...

But everything had changed in the world.” And when we came out of that, we all met like long-lost friends. I suddenly thought, ‘If we’ve got guns on us as well, we are going to be in a lot of trouble’.

VAN DER VALK season 2 has been a long time coming with fans having to wait two years for the new episodes. Lucienne star Maimie McCoy spoke exclusively to ...

If you're coming to ITV's Van Der Valk without knowing that it is a reboot of a 1970s crime series about a detective in Amsterdam, it won't take you long to ...

The plot suggests it wants to tell a poignant story of social injustice; the execution fancies itself as a blood-soaked romp; the dialogue, full of oddly glib and sarcastic quips in the face of brutal murders, implies that it wants to raise a wry eyebrow at its genre; while the schlocky editing and thudding clichés seem like a painful homage to its 1970s origins. One – the husband of the first victim – is a slimy corporate lawyer who reacts to police questioning with the attitude of a particularly haughty patron in a posh restaurant. The crucified woman turns out to be a lawyer (killed using rat poison) who recently won a case for the city to evict a bohemian community of artists in order to develop the land into a tourist attraction.

Van der Valk returns to ITV this week with the dutch detective show once again featuring some stunning locations. But where was the new season filmed?

Meanwhile, a windfarm seen at the end of episode 1 was filmed at Eemshaven port, which can been found in the province of Groningen on the country's north coast. Van der Valk is set in Amsterdam, and the location is key to the show's identity. Outside of Amsterdam, this season has also been filmed in Utrecht and The Hague, also cities in the Netherlands, with creator Chris Murray telling The i: "Amsterdam is quite difficult to film in.

The Dutch detective Piet Van Der Valk got back to work on the ITV drama tonight - here's why the statue of philosopher Spinoza featured.

"The city has given birth to nearly all the episodes. It is within Susie's case files that the team obtain their first lead. As ITV Van Der Valk returns to screens - here's why Spinoza statue featured

Marc Warren returns as the unlikely heartthrob in this reboot, which has settled into its stride now but still has no great plots.

The first series was hamstrung by its need to re-establish the character in our minds, meaning that the script constantly bashed us over the head with the fact that Van Der Valk was moody and lived on a boat. I could have done without that gruesome sight (and when was the last time you saw the cameras panning over the torso of a male victim in the same way?). Within five minutes of this episode of Van Der Valk (ITV), which kicked off the second series of the remake, he was trying to have a quiet drink when two pretty young things sidled over to his table and propositioned him.

I have given this some thought and decided that I don't really have it in me to be a serial killer. I couldn't face the effort required, to be honest. If TV ...

The Dutch detective Piet Van Der Valk got back to work on the ITV drama tonight - here's why the statue of philosopher Spinoza featured.

"The city has given birth to nearly all the episodes. It is within Susie's case files that the team obtain their first lead. As ITV Van Der Valk returns to screens - here's why Spinoza statue featured

Van der Valk is back for series 2 on ITV - when is it on TV and who's on the cast? Inspired by the original 1970s detective drama of the same name, the.

As rookie cop Job Cloovers returns to duty, even Van Der Valk is quietly relieved at his arrival – if anyone can help riddle out these puzzling notes, it is Job. Days previously, she had won a case on behalf of the city to evict a group of artist squatters – the windfarm where her body was discovered was where the group were due to be relocated. Van der Valk cast

VAN DER VALK returned to screens on Sunday night for another instalment of the ITV drama. However, some fans were left fuming after spotting an inaccurate ...

Van Der Valk landed on Sunday with the first episode of season two. [INSIGHT] Susie was the first to be found in a trail of dead bodies left by a serial killer. The series first landed on screens in 2020, with Marc Warren starring lead as Dutch detective Piet Van der Valk. Although the series was a reboot, original fans weren’t distracted by the inaccuracy as Barry Foster who first portrayed Piet Van Der Valk also kept his English accent. VAN DER VALK returned to screens on Sunday night for another instalment of the ITV drama.