Kryminalni

Infobox Television
show_name = Kryminalni


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format = crime drama
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runtime = Approximate 42 minutes (60 including commercials)
creator = Piotr Wereśniak
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starring = Marek Włodarczyk
Maciej Zakościelny
Magdalena Schejbal
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country = flagicon|Poland
network = TVN
first_aired = 2004
last_aired = 2008
num_seasons = 8
num_episodes = 101
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Kryminalni was a Polish crime drama television series that aired on TVN network from September 18, 2004 till May 24, 2008. It ran for 8 seasons and 101 episodes were broadcasted in total. It aired on Saturday evenings, usually around 8pm. It was created by Polish director and screenwriter Piotr Wereśniak and produced by MTL Maxfilm studio.

The series followed life and work of police officers from the elite Criminal Terror and Murders Division of the Warsaw Metropolitan Police. The three main characters were Adam Zawada, an experienced, tough cup, his younger colleague Marek Brodecki and Barbara (Basia) Storosz, an ambitious female officer who in the first season joins the team just after graduating.

Although none of the main actors had had star status before the series debuted, all three of them rose to prominence and popularity during the 5-year-long run. Many of Poland's best known actors guest starred, usually playing roles of people involved in just one particular investigation.

The decision to close the series was announced by TVN shortly before the shooting of the last season finished. The cast and creators complained they were given such a short notice and they claimed it made them unable to end many story arcs that were present throughout the series, the most important one being the romance between Marek and Basia. In the last scene of the last episode, which was added to the script after the network's decicion, it is clearly indicated the couple has finally decided to stay together.

Main characters

*Marek Włodarczyk (as underinspector Adam Zawada)
*Maciej Zakościelny (as police officer Marek Brodecki)
*Magdalena Schejbal (as commissioner Barbara Storosz)
*Tomasz Karolak (as aspirant Szczepan Żałoda)
*Ryszard Filipski (as inspector Ryszard Grodzki)
*Dorota Landowska (as prosecutor Dorota Wiśniewska)
*Ewa Kutynia (as aspirant Zuzanna Ostrowska)
*Kamil Maćkowiak (as prosecutor Jacek Dumicz)
*Lesław Żurek (as CBŚ agent Rafał Król)
*Alżbeta Lenska (as CBŚ agent Julia Wierzbicka)

Trivia

* The serial is one of the most popular in Poland: each week it has an audience of 4 million.
* Kryminalni is made in Poland, except two episodes made in Malta.
* The title does not mean "criminals", but is a word for police officers from criminal section.