SVT of Sweden orders “Whiskey On The Rocks”; Netflix Women Pitch Contest Winners; Keshet International Rental; ‘Gogglebox’ Wales; Red Arrow Mipcom Scripted – Global Briefs

Swedish SVT orders Skyverse Nordic’s “Whiskey on the Rocks”

Swedish public broadcaster SVT has switched to Nordic comedy drama Skyverse whiskey on the rocks as its main station. The six-part series is still in development and production of the script and is billed as a “Cold War premium epic drama special,” directed by Bjorn Stein.the evening sun) and is based on an original story by author Jonas Jonasson. It’s one of the first shows from Skyverse Nordic, which is a subsidiary of Sparkling, the Stockholm-based sister company of Humanoids, which Deadline revealed in May. The show reunites Jonasson with Skyverse boss Patrik Nebut and creative producer Henrik Jansson-Schweizer, who were together behind Sweden’s largest export, Oscar-nominated hit. A hundred year old man who jumped out the window and disappeared. Scandinavian and international actors are sought to play the characters of the drama on the submarine and in Moscow. The story is inspired by a famous incident that nearly escalated into a full-scale war between Sweden and the USSR in 1981, when the Soviet U-137 “Whiskey” class submarine ran aground on rocks in the depths of Swedish territorial waters. In the midst of the delicate Swedish naval exercise.

Netflix and EPC announce the winners of the First Pitch competition for women producers

Tri Moon Films’ Irish producer Anna Mannion won the inaugural edition of Netflix and the European Producers Club for production company-directed fiction series. As part of the initiative, launched last March during Series Mania, a selection of projects from the European Film Club (EPC) production companies were presented to the Netflix content team in Amsterdam. Mannion receives a development award of € 50,000 ($ 49,800), while Romanian producer Ada Solomon won second prize of € 20,000 ($ 19,900) in Microfilm. Mariela Besuevski at Tornasol Media (Spain), Marticka Bozhilova at Agitprop (Bulgaria), Gabriel M. Walter Caligarsch (Germany) and Olena Yershova, Tato Film (Ukraine, Turkey). They each received € 5,000 ($ 5,000) to help with development. Deadline revealed the competition news in March.

Keshet International hires Blue Ant’s Fleur Wheatley

cache International (KI) has appointed Fleur Wheatley as Vice President of Sales for London. You will be responsible for KI’s sales activities in the US, Canada, UK, Nordic countries, global and regional channels and SVoD. Wheatley joins Blue Ant International after a four-year stint, where he most recently served as national director for Scandinavia, Benelux, MENA, Greece and Turkey. He assumed his role today and reports directly to KI’s chief operating officer and president of distribution, Keren Shahar, who said Wheatley was part of the “largest company delegation since Covid.” Whitley, who previously worked at DRG and Fremantle, will focus on format sales, co-production / pre-purchase and pre-purchase opportunities with script and no script at KI, a subsidiary of the Israeli television network Keshet.

Welsh producers won the local competition for a remake of “Gogglebox”.

The Welsh Indians Chwarel and Cwmni Da produce Cymru glassesA new local language version of the television audience format eyeglasses. This is the first time original producer Studio Lambert and UK broadcaster Channel have licensed the franchise to another UK channel and producer. eyeglasses Show movies to family and friends as they watch and react to the most talked about TV of the week. The Welsh version is expected to include 70% bilingual Welsh programs, such as S4C, ITV Wales and BBC Wales, with the remaining 30% coming from UK and SVoD broadcasters. The casting is already underway and the first episode will air in the first week of November. Sioned Wyn, Chief Executive Officer of Chwarel, said: “We have been waiting for something like this for a long time. The ambition is to make it not only the highest scoring show in S4C, but in all of Wales and beyond. “

Red Arrow Studios International brought “Baby and Sister” to Cannes

Red Arrow Studios International has acquired the global distribution rights to a couple of new drama titles: a Kiwi-trained comedy series. little sister by Greenstone TV e The love of Ზapkhuli, an eight-part anthology series by Australian producer Gristmill. The titles will headline the company’s Mipcom script, which will also include the upcoming third season of the crime drama. venous blood. Kid Sister comes from Simone Nathan (Our flag means death), who also plays the lead character Lulu in the series, which aired on TVNZ On Demand in New Zealand earlier this year. She follows her like a Kiwi woman in her thirties, but who cares about being single in the Jewish world. The love of ᲖapkhuliFor the Australian publication, ABC follows eight different groups of people who rent the same beach vacation home where they live the epitome of love.