Witse

Witse is a Dutch language crime drama produced by Belgian broadcaster VRT and broadcast on their één channel. It is also shown on BVN. It was first broadcast in 2004 and was popular enough to run for nine seasons, with the final one airing in 2012.^[1] It starred Hubert Damen as the eponymous Witse, a driven inspector in the Belgian federal police based in Halle. It was one of the most popular Flemish television programmes with some 1.6 million viewers.^[2]

Main actor Hubert Damen

Witse
DVD box with all seasons and the movie
Genre	Drama Police
Created by	Ward Hulselmans
Written by	Bas Adriaensen Ward Hulselmans Dirk Nielandt Carl Joos Koen Vermeiren and others
Directed by	Peter Rondou Vincent Rouffaer Eric Taelman Luc Coghe Georges terryn Koen Verweirder
Starring	Hubert Damen, Daan Hugaert, Mark Stroobants, Inge Paulussen, Alice Toen, Viv Van Dingenen
Composer	Steve Willaert
Country of origin	Belgium
Original language	Dutch
No. of seasons	9
No. of episodes	117
Production
Producers	Dirk Haegemans Luc Roggen Ludo Schats Marina Willems
Original release
Network	Eén (VRT, Streamz) Nederland 1 (NPO 1, Videoland)
Release	11 January 2004 (2004-01-11) – 1 April 2012 (2012-04-01)

There are also Witse books. The first three were based on the last two episodes of each season, but since 2010 every six months a brand new story was published, written and invented by established Belgian (crime) writers, as Bob Van Laerhoven and Bart Van Lierde.^[3]

The music for Witse is composed by Steve Willaert.^[4]