Mtg’s streaming service Viaplay has ordered a second season of its original series “The Great Escape,” a Swedish format which was named Children’s Program of the Year at last year’s Kristallen Awards.
“‘The Great Escape’ follows a Christmas calendar format, with a new episode released every day from Dec.1 to Christmas Eve, and is produced in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish versions. Beppe Singer, Ole André Sivertsen and Niels Christian Meyer headline a local cast in each respective country.
The series is being produced by Nexiko, a Stockholm-based production company, for Viaplay.
Jakob Mejlhede, Mtg’s exec VP and head of programming and content development,” said “The Great Escape” has sparked a “huge demand from kids and parents for a second season.”
“Thousands of budding young scientists across the Nordic region can’t be wrong – mixing creative experiments with a dramatic storyline is a winning formula,” said Mejlhede,...
“‘The Great Escape’ follows a Christmas calendar format, with a new episode released every day from Dec.1 to Christmas Eve, and is produced in Swedish, Norwegian and Danish versions. Beppe Singer, Ole André Sivertsen and Niels Christian Meyer headline a local cast in each respective country.
The series is being produced by Nexiko, a Stockholm-based production company, for Viaplay.
Jakob Mejlhede, Mtg’s exec VP and head of programming and content development,” said “The Great Escape” has sparked a “huge demand from kids and parents for a second season.”
“Thousands of budding young scientists across the Nordic region can’t be wrong – mixing creative experiments with a dramatic storyline is a winning formula,” said Mejlhede,...
- 4/5/2018
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Other projects backed by June round of Nordisk Film & TV Fond include Liberty created by Asger Leth.
Danish director Christoffer Boe is lining up a hot cast for his new Danish crime TV series Warrior.
Dar Salim (A War, Game of Thrones, pictured) will play a former soldier and Danica Curcic plays the policewoman he loves, with the ensemble also including Lars Ranthe, Nicolas Bro, Søren Malling, Jacob Oftebro and Natalie Madueño.
Peter Bose and Jonas Allen of Miso Film produce the 6x48’ series, which Boe co-wrote with Simon Paternak. The project just received $356,000 (Nok 3m) in funding in the latest round from the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
It is produced for Denmark’s TV2 with further funding from the Danish Film Institute. Shooting now, it will be delivered in autumn 2018 with FremantleMedia International handles sales.
It is described as “a modern-day character-driven crime drama about strong human bonds, loyalty and treachery among army veterans, gang members...
Danish director Christoffer Boe is lining up a hot cast for his new Danish crime TV series Warrior.
Dar Salim (A War, Game of Thrones, pictured) will play a former soldier and Danica Curcic plays the policewoman he loves, with the ensemble also including Lars Ranthe, Nicolas Bro, Søren Malling, Jacob Oftebro and Natalie Madueño.
Peter Bose and Jonas Allen of Miso Film produce the 6x48’ series, which Boe co-wrote with Simon Paternak. The project just received $356,000 (Nok 3m) in funding in the latest round from the Nordisk Film & TV Fond.
It is produced for Denmark’s TV2 with further funding from the Danish Film Institute. Shooting now, it will be delivered in autumn 2018 with FremantleMedia International handles sales.
It is described as “a modern-day character-driven crime drama about strong human bonds, loyalty and treachery among army veterans, gang members...
- 6/28/2017
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
If there is one enemy that we can all understand, it is the bank. Holding our money, we trust them to treat it well, but in recent years we’ve seen that sometimes that isn’t the case. Follow the Money season 2 sets up a story revolving around banks, and while this could have been a mediocre tale, this series manages to take it to epic proportions instead.
While I’ve not seen the first season of the show, the initial recap does a good job of introducing the main characters and the lay of the land regarding as to where the story is. Mads Justesen (Thomas Bo Larsen) and the fraud squad stumble onto a major crime that at first seems to be about making money out of bankrupt businesses, but soon becomes a conspiracy aimed at taking out a much bigger victim.
In season 2 of Follow the Money,...
While I’ve not seen the first season of the show, the initial recap does a good job of introducing the main characters and the lay of the land regarding as to where the story is. Mads Justesen (Thomas Bo Larsen) and the fraud squad stumble onto a major crime that at first seems to be about making money out of bankrupt businesses, but soon becomes a conspiracy aimed at taking out a much bigger victim.
In season 2 of Follow the Money,...
- 3/31/2017
- by Paul Metcalf
- Nerdly
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