The new Flemish television series Coppers, which started on VTM on Monday 4 January, immediately got off to a strong start. The first episode of the crime series, based on the books by Toni Coppers, achieved a market share of 30%. The 13-part television series is a combination of free film adaptations of the crime novels by Toni Coppers, also known as the Limburg Pieter Aspe, and new stories in the line of the author's work.