Matthias Berg is head of the crisis intervention team of the Berlin police . He and his co-workers try the impossible: They resist the mercilessly passing time. Your job is to prevent impending crimes. They penetrate the psyche of the perpetrator with the greatest possible empathy and under constant time pressure in order to stop him. But only one can win. The pointers are pointing to storm.
The first broadcast on the German broadcaster Sat.1 was from November 15, 2007 to January 10, 2008. After the broadcast of the fifth episode was due to poor audience announced that there will be no second season and the series will be sent provisionally and only until a result. 9 From June 1 to June 13, 2011, the series was broadcast on 9Live . The remaining four episodes were then shown in German for the first time. Sat.1 broadcast the series from March 2012, in the night program, for the first time on an HD channel. In the fall of 2012, the pay TV broadcaster AXN began broadcasting. The series has been running on Sixx since July 2013 .
Deadline is the first series that Studio Hamburg produces for SAT.1.
Katja Riemann was originally intended for the role of detective director . However, due to quarrels during the production of the pilot episode, Sat.1 split from her after a short time.