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The Nordisk Film & TV Fond has teamed with the Göteborg Film Festival to launch the Nordic Series Awards, a new award to honor Nordic drama series.

The Nordic Series Award replaces the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize, which has been awarded annually at Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision since 2017. The award will honor the best screenwriting in Nordic drama.

Supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond, the award includes a 200,000 Nok cash prize and will be given to the main writer(s) of a Nordic drama series that premiered in the previous year.

The two organizations have also launched the Creative Courage Award to honor the producer and commissioner behind what has been described as “a series that pushes creative boundaries and embraces bold, innovative approaches.”

Both awards will be presented annually at Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision. The call for nominations opens today. The deadline to submit a series is November 15. To be eligible,...

Wild Bunch TV has boarded the Norwegian drama series “Holmlia Love” from Fremantle-backed Monster. The six-part series is one of the first projects coming out of the New8 Euro pubcasters’ pact.

The Paris-based global distribution banner will cover rights outside the eight northern European territories, handled by the New8 partners: Nrk Norway, which commissioned the show, Zdf Germany, Npo The Netherlands, Vrt Belgium, Svt Sweden, Dr Denmark, Yle Finland, and RÚV Iceland.

For his debut as creator, co-writer and co-director, Mikael Diseth, producer of Monster Scripted’s hit series “Countrymen,” has teamed up with concept director Andre Chocron, credited for the “Paul McCartney: Appreciate” music video and Canneseries 2023 winning drama “Power Play”.

The six-part drama series is based on the true race-motivated murder of 15 -year-old Benjamin Hermansen by two Neo-Nazis, which shook Norway in 2001. The knife-stabbing of the teenager of Ghanaian and Norwegian origin, took place in Oslo’s multicultural Holmlia district.

Göteborg’s TV Drama Vision, the drama series and TV industry strand of Scandinavia’s biggest film-tv festival, has unveiled further details of its works-in-progress and project showcases, as well as keynote speakers from HBO Europe to Walter Presents.

As HBO Max lands in Europe during the second half of 2021, Antony Root, executive VP original programming and production at HBO Europe and Christian Wikander, commissioning editor and VP of Programming, HBO Nordic, discuss the streamer’s vision and creative strategy.

European TV keynote speakers set to outline their vision include Walter Luzzolino, the face and curator behind the globally successful Walter Presents drama brand, who has co founded Eagle Eye Drama to make English-language series inspired by foreign language hits.

As always, top Nordic and international TV execs and streamers will take centre stage to discuss the upcoming trends and challenges ahead. These include drama chiefs from TV2 and Dr in Denmark; Sweden’s Viaplay,...

Over-sexed video-game vixens are out. Strong yet chic female heroines are in. That is what we learned while watching “Power Play,” the sixth episode of the 17th season of “Project Runway.” Gold Derby senior editors Daniel Montgomery, who is wise in the ways of current gaming culture, and Susan Wloszczyna, whose last video-game experience was probably “Donkey Kong,” debate the outcome of which designers powered up and who was out of lives in the fashion game.

“It was good news for Hester Sunshine,” Daniel noted of the designer who probably has the most playful aesthetic. “She won the challenge — her second win of the season. But bad news for Rakan Aldeen, who once again landed in the bottom three and was this time eliminated.”

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As for what Susan thought of the challenge, she says that it was interesting that...

Last week on ‘Project Runway,’ luxury streetwear proved to be embullient Kovid Kapoor‘s downfall but Bishme Cromartie was inspired by his Baltimore roots to make an urban outfit whose standout piece was a sparkly blue bomber jacket (head to Nineteenth Admendment to buy a copy for $300 if you wish). Others earning high scores were Venny Etienne, whose cool outfit was inspired by a sneaker, and Garo Sparo (loved his cinched corset). But among the bottom dwellers were Jamall Osterholm, who didn’t even finish sewing his design, and Rakan Shams Aldeen, who didn’t really meet the requirements of the challenge. Let’s see if these two redeem themselves on our episode 6 recap of Season 17, “Power Play.” All times are Eastern.

8:02 p.m. Suddenly a familiar noise gets a rise out of the designers as they await their next assignment in the runway area. It sounds like the...