Season 1 of The Bridge premiered on September 21, 2011.

The first season started with a police investigation following the discovery of a dead body on the Øresund Bridge connecting Sweden and Denmark. It was first broadcast on SVT1 and DR1 during the autumn of 2011.

Season 2 of The Bridge premiered on September 22, 2013.

The second season aired in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland and Iceland over ten weeks from 22 September to 24 November 2013, and began airing in the United Kingdom on BBC Four from 4 January 2014.

Season 3 of The Bridge premiered on September 27, 2015.

Production of the third season started at the end of 2014 and began airing in Denmark, Sweden and Finland on 27 September 2015. Following Bodnia's departure from the cast, it stars Helin, Thure Lindhardt and Nicolas Bro.

Season 4 of The Bridge premiered on January 1, 2018.

Saga and Henrik are brought together once again to solve a series of macabre and gruesome murders that start when a high-ranking government officer, the director general of the Immigration Service, is stoned to death. Increasingly, it appears that the murders have a personal connection with the Danish police team that Henrik is at the very centre of.