ARTE1 & Paramount strike Lat Am factual deals Broadcasters and platforms across Latin America have struck deals for factual content with distributor Abacus Media Rights at MIP Cancun. ARTE1 in Brazil has acquired a line-up including Lennon’s Last Weekend, The Oratorio, Manolo: The Boy Who Made Shoes for Lizards, Agatha Christie: 100 Years of Poirot and […]
Public broadcasters face pressure like never before, with squeezed budgets and their very funding models under intense scrutiny. Marie-Agnès Bruneau takes a trip around Europe to find out what’s happening across the continent Europe’s public service media have faced turbulent times of late, as the traditional licence fee funding model faces challenges across the continent. […]
This 6 x 35-minute young adult drama is a “modern-day Romeo-and-Juliet story”, says show creator Karina Lystad, with those parallels obvious in the fraught relationship of Daniel and Elin – who are on different sides of the climate change debate. Daniel has hit a rough patch. Just expelled from university, he’s now back home with […]
Norwegian pubcaster NRK has appointed Skam producer Marianne Furevold-Boland as its drama chief, replacing Ivar Køhn who joined Banijay-owned Rubicon earlier this year. Furevold-Boland was an actress and presenter for NRK before she began producing radio and TV shows for the pubcaster. She then became an executive producer at NRK’s drama department in 2017, working […]
Norwegian broadcaster NRK has commissioned So Long, Marianne, a new drama series from UK-based Buccaneer Media and local firm Redpoint Productions. The 8 x 45-minute English & Norwegian-language series is based on true story of Marianne Ihlen and her relationship with acclaimed singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen. The couple’s stories take place across the world, travelling from […]
The ABC in Australia, NRK in Norway and VRT in Belgium are among a slew of companies to have picked up Patrick Aryee’s wildlife and tech docuseries Evolve. The 6 x 60-minute show, sold by Abacus Media Rights (AMR), was produced by Beach House Pictures for streamer Curiosity in association with Blue Ant Media. Deals […]
Canal+ in France, NRK in Norway and fellow Nordic firm CMore/TV4 have joined Denmark’s TV2 on upcoming drama Families Like Ours, which marks the first TV drama by Thomas Vinterberg (The Hunt). The show, which first emerged in 2020, will be produced by Canal+ sibling StudioCanal and Zentropa, with Vinterberg and Bo Hr. Hansen (Darkness: […]
Beforeigners and Lillyhammer producer Rubicon has hired the head of drama at Norwegian pubcaster NRK as its CEO, after Håkon Briseid’s decision to join Netflix. Ivar Køhn joins the Banijay Nordic-owned production firm on 1 May having led NRK’s drama output since 2013, with commissions during his watch ranging from 22 July, State Of Happiness and Mammon […]
Disney+, ABC in Australia and Nordic pubcasters including Sweden’s SVT are among buyers of Ridley Road, which debuted on the UK’s BBC last month. The 4 x 60-minute thriller, which is from Studiocanal-owned Red Production Company and sold by its parent, was commissioned for BBC One and co-produced with PBS’s Masterpiece. It will also air […]
SBS & Yes pre-buy ‘The Big Squeeze’ SVT in Sweden, NRK in Norway, DR in Denmark, RTL in the Netherlands, SBS in Australia and Yes in Israel have struck pre-sale deals with Vice Distribution for The Big Squeeze, a new documentary about the GameStop short squeeze. Produced by Vice World News, the 1 x 90-minute […]
