Rupel (Scripted, Dutch)
Genres: Drama, Action, Adventure
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2004-09-03
Ended: 2006-01-02
Network: VTM
Country: BE
Airs on: Monday
Air time: 22:55
Runtime: 50 minutes
In this Flemish police series, called after the river which runs trough the district where it plays, crimes are investigated and solved, usually in one episode, by a police team. The main protagonists, Lucas Bataillie, a brilliant but socially rather inept inspector, and his more career-oriented colleague, who becomes his superior, but only in rank, also have an on-off personal relationship. In the first season, they're also assisted by promising young trainee Simon Knops. The old commissioner is incompetent and often ignored, other recurrent characters are quite minor.