Japanese mystery channel, AXN Mystery, returns Russian period crime thriller, “Noble Detective”, in 2022 in part two of a deal between NHK Enterprises, the commercial arm of public broadcaster NHK, and Russian broadcaster, NTV.

The first few episodes of the series, about a young noble in Tsarist Russia who joins the police force, aired on AXN Mystery in February this year as something of an experiment to test local appetite for Russian drama.