The 'Van der Valk' Trailer Shakes Up the Team for Season 4

Van der Valk continues to operate as one of Masterpiece’s under-the-radar series. The reboot of the Dutch mystery series that aired in the 1970s and was revived in the 1990s has been a solid player, holding down the September slots during the pandemic years. Since 2023, it’s morphed into a regular 10 p.m. series, the kind that PBS fans may not deliberately turn on as a go-to but are perfectly happy to watch when it airs directly after topline hits like Unforgotten and Magpie Murders.

Since the switchover to splitting the series’ three feature-length episodes per season into airing as six two-parters, the series has attempted to shake up the cast, trying to find a winning ensemble; Season 4’s trailer confirms this set of episodes will continue that process. Peter van Heeringen, who played the barfly everyone called “Homeless Frank” for the show’s first three years on the air, is gone, as is Season 3 addition Django Chan-Reeves, who played one-season-wonder Sergeant Citra Li.

In their place, the series adds a brand new Sergeant, Kalie Tenkers, who looks like she may stick around for a potential Season 5. The series also wisely gives more screentime to underused characters like Cliff the Barkeep and Van der Valk’s boss, Hoofdcommissaris Julia Dahlman. Dahlman’s increased presence also means Season 4 will bring back Dahlman’s new faithful pup, Sniffer, who replaced Goodest Boy Trojan at the end of Season 3.