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Norway proposes €3m film & TV fund

Norway has proposed the ‘Nordisk Stor Film Fond’, which is still in early stages of discussion and would have a €3 million (US$3.53 million) budget to support film and TV projects. Speaking yesterday in Haugesund at the conference ‘The Nordic Bridge – how to strengthen Nordic content in the digital age’, Norway’s Culture Minister Linda […]

Best of British SVOD re-ups with Scandi operators

ITV-backed best of British SVOD service Cirkus has inked new deals with two leading pay TV operators in the Nordics. New long-term agreements with Com Hem in Sweden and Get in Norway will ensure the streaming service’s continued carriage on the platforms. The new deals also extend the reach of Cirkus on Com Hem and […]

Netflix strikes Norway pay TV deal

Norway-based Telenor Group has agreed a long-term partnership with Netflix that will see it integrate the SVOD service into its set-top boxes. The deal will establish Telenor as the first TV distributor in Norway to integrate Netflix into its set-top box for Canal Digital Cable customers via the T-We platform. Telenor described the deal as […]

Norway’s TV 2 buys domestic C More assets

Norwegian commercial broadcaster TV 2 has bought Nordic pay TV channel provider C More’s Norwegian sports operations, as part of a major content deal between the two firms. Egmont-owned TV 2 has acquired all C More’s sports rights and sports channels in Norway, including its C Sports service, in a deal that includes Norwegian national […]

Endemol options Dirty Old Towns format

Endemol has optioned community makeover format Dirty Old Towns in several European territories. The format has proved successful on Irish public broadcaster RTE where a second season has just finished airing. The show, which was created by Irish indie Happy Ending Productions, has been optioned by Endemol in France, Italy, Denmark and Norway. The format, […]

BBC cooks up Norway deal for Bake Off

BBC Worldwide has sold its hit cooking format The Great British Bake Off into Norway. Viasat’s flagship channel TV3 has bought the format and it will be known locally as Hele Norge baker. TV3’s head of programming, Åse Bendiksen, noted that the broadcaster beat out competition from other local broadcasters for the show, which has […]

Netflix snags Warner Bros content as Scandi roll out continues

Netflix has launched in Denmark today and will roll out in Norway and Finland later this week and the streaming service has secured a pan-Scandinavian programming deal with Warner Bros. for the studio’s TV series and movies in the first pay TV window, TBI has learned. The Warner Bros content previously resided with C More, […]