HBO Europe is expanding its Nordic slate by ordering an eight-part Norwegian dramedy from Icelandic director Dagur Kári (Virgin Mountain). Utmark (aka Wilderness) has been created and written by Kim Fupz Aakeson (A Somewhat Gentle Man), with Finn Gjerdrum and Stein Kvae at Paradox producing. The show, described as “a quirky comedy drama,” is set […]
HBO Europe has greenlit a new comedy from Manuela Burló Moreno, adding to a growing slate of Spanish originals from the broadcaster. Por H o por B/Whatever (English w/t) is written and directed by Burló Moreno and stars Marta Martín and Saida Benzal. The comedy takes the characters from Burló Moreno’s Goya-nominated short film Pipas, with Martín and […]
HBO has launched in Portugal via SVOD offering. The Game of Thrones cabler is now available via standalone website, and accessible through a range of smartphones, tablets and devices, including Android, Chromecast and Apple TV. It is also available to Vodafone Portugal customers via TV Vodafone. The service costs €4.99 ($5.60) per month following a free […]
HBO Nordic has greenlit its first original Norwegian series Beforeigners, created by Anne Bjørnstad and Eilif Skodvin, the screenwriter duo behind Lilyhammer. Described as a “playful, funny, crime story”, Beforeigners brings back entities from the Stone Age, Viking era and late 19th Century to the modern world and no one quite understands why. Beforeigners will […]
As HBO Europe begins work on its first Adria original, Success, TBI catches up with execs Steve Matthews and Antony Root on its plans for the region and feedback on how it’s evolving. Like many firsts currently coming out of the Balkan region, HBO is looking to create the territory’s first high-end drama to match […]
Swedish filmmaker Lukas Moodysson will create HBO Europe’s first original series out of Scandinavia. Scripted series Gösta (WT) will be a “mix of comedy and Dostoevsky”, according Moodysson, who will write and direct all eight episodes. HBO Nordic, which is part of HBO Europe, has been searching for its first original series out of Scandinavia […]
HBO Europe is pushing further into original programming in the Central and Eastern Europe region by hiring a new development exec. Ana Balentovic (pictured) will work within HBO Adria, a subsidiary of HBO Europe operating within the Balkan region, which itself is part of US premium pay TV giant HBO. The former RTL Televizija and […]
HBO Europe has extended its strategy of working up local originals and is developing new drama series from Croatia and Serbia. At last year’s Sarajevo Film Festival it unveiled plans to make originals out of the Adria region (Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Macedonia and Montenegro), and has now selected its first projects: crime […]
HBO Europe has given more responsibility to a trio of executives as part of a regional restructuring. Jonathan Young, Steve Matthews and Hanka Kastelicova have all been upped to VP roles at the European arm of US premium cable channel HBO following expansion into Spain and the Nordics. News of the promotions comes as HBO […]
HBO Europe’s latest original drama is Blinded by the Lights, a Polish-originated six-parter about a Warsaw cocaine dealer. HBO has been pushing more heavily into original programming in recent times and also said today that it has recommissioned Wataha, which was its first ever original series, as first reported by TBI back in 2013. Blinded […]
