Midsomer Murders to team up with Danish producers behind The Killing to film 100th episode Episode will be partly shot in Copenhagen and the surrounding area First time that the ITV drama has been filmed outside of the UK Unlikely partnership made after popularity of Midsomers in Denmark Their landscapes and characters could not be more different. One is set in the quintessentially British countryside - complete with eccentric wax jacket wearing villages - the others against a stark Nordic backdrop. But the long-running British drama Midsomer Murders is teaming up with the Danish producers behind The Killing and Borgen to film its 100th episode. The episode will be partly shot in Copenhagen and the surrounding area, the first time that the ITV drama has been filmed outside of the UK. Long-running British drama Midsomer Murders is teaming up with the Danish producers behind The Killing to film its 100th episode Two Danish actresses - The Killing's Ann Eleonora Jorgensen and Borgen's Birgitte Hjort Sorensen - will feature in The Killings At Copenhagen. Danish crime drama The Killing and political series Borgen, both shown on BBC4, have proved a hit with British viewers. The episode, to be shown in the forthcoming 16th series, will be made with DR, producer of The Killing. DR's series acquisitions executive Kaare Schmidt said: 'Midsomer Murders is a benchmark in television entertainment and Danish viewers' favourite programme for more than a decade. 'It's an honour and a thrill for us to be able to contribute to the series' distinguished line of murder victims and police detectives.' Viewers will see DCI Barnaby (Neil Dudgeon) and DS Nelson (newcomer Gwilym Lee) travel to Denmark after a body is discovered which links back to a family in Midsomer in the one-off episode, which will also be filmed in Midsomer's first UK murder location, Badger's Drift. Executive producer Jo Wright said: 'Midsomer Murders is incredibly popular on prime-time Danish television. Borgen, with Birgitte Hjort Sorensen as Katrine Fonsmark. The episode, to be shown in the forthcoming 16th series, will be made with DR, producer of The Killing The Killings At Copenhagen will also feature Pernille Birk (Ann Eleonora Jorgensen, third from right) It is known as Barnaby and has been running for 12 years, winning 40% of the audience share. 'The idea to shoot in Denmark came about because we wanted to do something special to mark the 100th episode, and it's great to be working with DR, producer of the award winning series The Killing.' In 2011, Midsomer's producer was suspended after sparking a row when he claimed part of the show's appeal was an absence of ethnic minorities. Brian True-May, the drama's co-creator, said that the ITV1 programmes 'wouldn't work' if there was any racial diversity in the village life. 'We just don't have ethnic minorities involved. Because it wouldn't be the English village with them. It just wouldn't work....We're the last bastion of Englishness and I want to keep it that way,' he said. He was later reinstated but stepped down from the show the same year. The programme, based on the books by Caroline Graham, was launched in 1997 and is sold to 225 territories around the world.