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Show of the Week: Moominvalley

Finnish author Tove Jansson’s beloved Moomins live on in this CGI-animated family series inspired by the tales of the friendly troll family and their friends. It’s been almost 80 years since the characters were first presented to the world and Katherine Senior, head of international sales at Gutsy Animations, says that their enduring appeal is […]

Xumo & European pubcasters ink pre-sales for ‘Silverback’ documentary

US streamer Xumo and European pubcasters ORF in Austria, UR in Sweden and YLE in Finalnd have inked pre-sale deals for Off The Fence documentary Silverback. The 1 x 90-minute title was produced by OTF Studios in association with the BBC, France Télévisions, Featuristic Films and The WNET Group. The film will debut on the […]

France Télévisions, SBS & CBC acquire Ukrainian war drama ‘Those Who Stayed’

Australian broadcaster SBS, France Télévisions and CBC Gem, the streaming service of CBC in Canada, have acquired Ukrainian drama anthology series Those Who Stayed. Launched at MIPCOM last month, the 6 x 30-minute series is inspired by events that took place in Kyiv in the first few weeks after the Russian invasion of Ukraine in […]

Eight European pubcasters launch co-commissioning group New8

Eight public broadcasters across Europe including Germany’s ZDF and the Nordic five have joined forces to create a new co-commissioning club that aims to coproduce eight scripted projects each year. New8 is seeking projects across genres and will pool the resources from ZDF (Germany), NPO (The Netherlands), VRT (Belgium), SVT (Sweden), DR (Denmark), YLE (Finland), […]

RTVE Play offering “flexibility” as streaming opens up international drama

Spanish public broadcaster RTVE is using its streaming service RTVE Play to provide more flexibility around its drama offering, execs said at Conecta Fiction here in Toledo. RTVE has become an increasingly frequent partner on international dramas over recent years, underlined by shows such as the recently unveiled European drama This Is Not Sweden and […]

European broadcasters co-commission Ukrainian dramedy set in wartime Kiev

Broadcasters SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway and YLE in Finland have co-commissioned Those Who Stayed, an anthology dramedy series about life during wartime in Kiev from Ukrainian studio Film.UA. The 6 x 40-minute series has been co-developed by Film.UA and Red Arrow Studios International, which will distribute, and is inspired by the true stories […]

Netflix & YLE order first scripted series for Endemol Shine Finland

Netflix has partnered with Finnish broadcaster YLE on a 10-part drama from Endemol Shine Finland, marking the Banijay-owned company’s first scripted commission. Dance Brothers has been created by Endemol Shine Finland’s head of scripted Max Malka and is a Finnish-language young adult dance drama. Details of the story are scant but it will be exec […]

Sweden’s SVT & UR pick a bunch of TVF’s historical shows

Sweden’s SVT and Finland’s YLE are among a raft of Nordic outfits to pick up historical series and documentaries from UK-based factual distributor TVF International. SVT has taken EBS docudramas China’s Dragon Emperor and Asia’s Ancient Civilizations from Mediacorp Productions, while Swedish educational outfit UR has acquired Iceland: Cold War Frontier and Britain On Film With […]

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