Overview
- The revival, which premieres Monday at 20:15 on Sat.1 and on Joyn, opens with a tense case set at Vienna’s St. Stephen’s Cathedral (Stephansdom).
- Produced by MR-Film with Sat.1 and Austria’s ORF, the season consists of six standalone films that each run about 90 minutes.
- Maximilian Brückner leads as Kommissar Max Steiner alongside the returning canine star Rex (Reginald von Ravenhorst), with Doris Golpashin as Major Evelyn Leitner in a franchise comeback after a 2004 guest role.
- The new episodes add stylized dog point-of-view shots that show how Rex senses the world through smell and sound.
- For viewers who want to catch up, all previous seasons of the cult series already stream for free on Joyn.