DRG launches NRK’s For Life, 22 July at MIPCOM

The two high end series will make their debut at the Cannes fall content market, together with the SVT/Yle series The White Wall, available for pre-buys. 

NRK’s first procedural For Life, created by Mammon creator Gjermund S. Eriksen, is produced by Monster Scripted. Highly innovative in form, the crime series is set in two timelines: in present day, as we follow investigator Victoria Woll (Eyewitness), solving cases and putting criminals behind bars, and in the future, where she sits in prison.

Monster Scripted CEO Håkon Briseid described it as a ‘happy noir’, with warmth and humour.  DRG’s EVP Content told nordicfilmandtvnews.com that interest is high from buyers both for the ready-made and format. The 8x60’ backed by Nordisk Film & TV Fond will premiere on NRK in the spring 2020. 

NRK’s other highly anticipated series 22 July (6x60’) explores how ordinary people responded to the atrocities committed by Anders Breivik on 22 July 2011. The emotional series starring Alexandra Gjerpen (Young and Promising, Norsemen), Helga Guren (An Affair), Marius Lien (The 12^th Man,) and Ane Skumsvoll (Aber Bergen) will premiere on NRK January 2020. Norwegian audiences are invited this Wednesday evening to a sneak-preview at Oslo Series Days, introduced by co-directors/writers Sara Johnsen and Pål Sletaune. 

Meanwhile NENT Group’s international distribution division DRG will start pre-sales on The White Wall starring Aksel Hennie and Vera Vitali. The 8x45’ sci-fi mystery drama raising metaphysical questions is co-created by Black Widows’ Roope Lehtinen and Mikko Pöllä and director Aleksi Salmenperä. The premiere on SVT and Yle is set for the fall 2020.  

On DRG’s factual slate are a dozen series including the Norwegian 12x30’ obs doc Fishing Fortune from Monster TV, the wildlife show Secrets of the Garden (6x60) from Denmark’s Strong Productions, and the UK series My Grandparents War (4x60’) commissioned by Channel Four, in which Helena Bonham Carter, Kristin Scott Thomas, Mark Rylance and Carey Mulligan retrace the footsteps of their grandparents during WWII.