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Amazon gives new Nordic home to nine Viaplay dramas, orders Coben & Brocklehurst thriller

Amazon streamer Prime Video in the Nordics has acquired nine series originally destined for regional SVOD Viaplay, including season two of Monster Scripted’s Norwegian political thriller Furia and season four of Miso Films’ Danish crime drama Those Who Kill. Other titles now launching on Prime Video on 19 April for Nordic subscribers as part of […]

Netflix returns to ‘Lilyhammer’ prodco Rubicon for fishing drama ‘Salmon Island’

Netflix has partnered up with Norwegian production firm Rubicon for a new fishing-related drama, a decade after the companies first linked on Lilyhammer, the streamer’s first scripted original. Salmon Island (working title) follows two families in a small coastal community in Norway, who are sworn enemies in the global salmon industry. The series will “deliver […]

Norway’s Rubicon hires NRK drama chief as CEO, after Håkon Briseid joins Netflix

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 […]

Nordic prodco Rubicon names Håkon Briseid as CEO

Håkon Briseid has been appointed as CEO of Banijay Nordic’s scripted label Rubicon. Joining from Norwegian prodco Monster, Briseid will take up his role in early 2022 and will report to Banijay Nordic’s CEO, Jacob Houlind, and the region’s head of scripted, Johannes Jensen. He is tasked with growing the label’s output, working with with […]

Endemol Shine lands multiple ‘MasterChef’ deals in Nordics

TV4 in Sweden has commissioned the country’s first local version of culinary competition series MasterChef All Stars, one of a number of new Nordic deals struck by format owner Endemol Shine Group. TV4 has also ordered an 11th season of the original MasterChef format to air 2021, after last month’s 10th run secured its highest […]

Endemol Shine restructures struggling Lilyhammer prodco Rubicon

Endemol Shine Group is restructuring its struggling Norwegian prodco Rubicon, with managing director Pal Kruke Kristiansen among those leaving. Endemol Shine is understood to be consulting with Rubicon’s 100-strong staff over their futures. Rubicon is best known for Netflix’s first global scripted acquisition, Lilyhammer (pictured), plus the local version of Endemol Shine formats such as […]

FremantleMedia poaches Johansen from Rubicon

FremantleMedia has hired Hegme Skjerven Johansen as head of development at its Norwegian operation, with the exec coming over from Endemol Shine prodco Rubicon. Johansen will report to Petter Testmann-Koch, MD of FremantleMedia Norway, when she joins next month. She will oversee the regional operation’s development efforts, working up new projects and adapting existing FremantleMedia […]

Red Arrow bags ‘new Lilyhammer’ rights

Red Arrow International has snagged international rights to Samurai Security, a Norwegian comedy series from Rubicon, the producers of Lilyhammer. Red Arrow also sells Netflix series Lilyhammer and will now take the new Rubicon series to market. The new show was penned by Lilyhammer writer Anne Bjørnstad and features several of the same cast. Samurai […]