Peter Stormare and Johan Glans to play Swedish detectives in Los Angeles.
Nordic digital platform Viaplay is plotting its first original series, titled Swedish Dicks.
Peter Stormare (The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Blacklist) will star alongside popular Swedish comedian Johan Glans, who has twice been named as Sweden’s funniest comedian.
The series is about two Swedes working as unlicensed private investigators in downtown Los Angeles.
Peter Settman serves as showrunner through his new production company Brain Academy, which will co-produce, alongside Los Angeles-based Viking Brothers Entertainment and Glenn Lund.
Settman said: “We are thrilled to deliver the first Viaplay original series, starring the largest names from Sweden’s acting and humor elite. Swedish Dicks is nothing you have ever seen before, the perfect mixture of laugh-out-loud moments and dialogues with a more serious undertone.”
The series will start showing throughout the Nordics, exclusively on Viaplay, in 2016.
Viaplay is part of the Modern Times Group.
Brain Academy...
Nordic digital platform Viaplay is plotting its first original series, titled Swedish Dicks.
Peter Stormare (The Big Lebowski, Fargo, The Blacklist) will star alongside popular Swedish comedian Johan Glans, who has twice been named as Sweden’s funniest comedian.
The series is about two Swedes working as unlicensed private investigators in downtown Los Angeles.
Peter Settman serves as showrunner through his new production company Brain Academy, which will co-produce, alongside Los Angeles-based Viking Brothers Entertainment and Glenn Lund.
Settman said: “We are thrilled to deliver the first Viaplay original series, starring the largest names from Sweden’s acting and humor elite. Swedish Dicks is nothing you have ever seen before, the perfect mixture of laugh-out-loud moments and dialogues with a more serious undertone.”
The series will start showing throughout the Nordics, exclusively on Viaplay, in 2016.
Viaplay is part of the Modern Times Group.
Brain Academy...
- 11/16/2015
- by wendy.mitchell@screendaily.com (Wendy Mitchell)
- ScreenDaily
Exclusive: Paradigm certainly has more than snapshots to show from its trip to Sweden. A day after announcing the signing of Easy Money screenwriter Maria Karlsson, the agency has inked local comic actress Josephine Bornebusch. Along with her regular role on the popular Swedish sitcom Solsidan, she stars in the upcoming Swedish-American series Welcome To Sweden, the first project from Amy Poehler and Greg Poehler’s production company Syskon. That English-language show stars Greg Poehler as a New York accountant who falls in love with a Swedish girl (Bornebusch) and follows his heart to Sweden. The eOne-distributed comedy will air on Sweden’s TV4 and is seeking a U.S. home. “There is a lot of exciting talent in the region that translates globally,” said Paradigm senior agent Ken Stovitz. “Josephine is a brilliant comedienne, and it is obvious why she is the most famous actress of her generation in Sweden.
- 8/23/2013
- by THE DEADLINE TEAM
- Deadline TV
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