Swedish scripted prodco Yellow Bird has appointed FLX’s Elin Kvist as VP and creative director. Kvist will join the Banijay Nordic-owned firm in January 2024 from Stockholm-based FLX, where she has spent the past three years as head of drama at the firm behind titles such as The Dark Heart, Blinded and Surburbia. Prior to […]
Quicksand producer FLX has promoted Joshua Mehr to become CEO, replacing Pontus Edgren. Mehr will take up the role from 8 January and is being upped from his current role as head of business affairs, which he has held for nine years. He has overseen shows such as Sunny Side and The Bonus Family at […]
Nordic streamer Viaplay has commissioned young adult drama Live Life as its next Swedish original series. Produced by FLX and known locally as Leva Life, the eight-part series follows the story of three friends whose lives are upended when one of them discovers they have a large tumour. Hanna Ardéhn plays 24-year-old Nora, who is […]
RTL Studios takes on ‘The Big Switch Job’ Germany’s RTL Studios is to produce a local version of social experiment format The Big Switch Job, following a deal with Vox and Be-Entertainment. The format, which was created and produced by Geronimo for VTM in Belgium, follows five individuals who resign from their jobs without knowing […]
NENT Group streamer Viaplay has commissioned Swedish drama The Meaning Of Life (aka Meningen Med Livet) as its latest original series. The eight-part series, which is produced by Sussan Treshow for FLX and created by Maria Nygren (The Lawyer) and Tove Eriksen Hillblom (Solsidan) will launch exclusively on the platform in autumn 2022. The Meaning Of […]
Netflix acquires Oz’s ‘Operation Buffalo’ Netflix has acquired Australian spy thriller Operation Buffalo to steam across the APAC region, excluding China, following a deal with distributor About Premium Content (APC). The series will land on the global streamer on 28 February, while APC has also sold the title to Belgian broadcaster RTBF. These latest deals […]
Netflix has handed out a commission for a political drama based on New York Times journalist Amy Chozick’s book Chasing Hillary and ordered a Swedish scripted series from Lisa Langseth (Euphoria). The Girls on the Bus will follow four female journalists as they track presidential candidates in the US and is being exec produced by […]
Netflix has commissioned its first original series from Sweden, which has the head writer from The Bridge, Camilla Ahlgren, attached. Störst av Allt (Quicksand) is based on a novel from Malin Persson Giolito that’s been translated into 26 languages. The story follows the trial of a normal student girl following a mass shooting a prep […]
Keshet International has picked up international rights to Fallet, a new Scandinavian noir series out of Sweden. The eight-part drama follows a Swedish and a British detective – Lisa Henni (Easy Money) and Adam Godley (Breaking Bad) – as they investigate a gruesome murder. Swedish prodco FLX (The 100-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window […]
Swedish network TV4 has hooked up with Parks and Recreation star Amy Poehler to produce a half-hour comedy about an American man who falls for a Swedish woman. Poehler and her brother Greg will produce Welcome to Sweden under their new production banner, Syskon. Also on board are Stockholm-based producer FLX, which is behind TV4’s […]
