Viaplay’s next Swedish thriller series will be ‘Jana – Marked for Life’, based on a bestselling novel by Emelie Schepp about public prosecutor and former child soldier Jana Berzelius. Created and directed by the acclaimed duo Felix Herngren (the Oscar-nominated ‘The 100 Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared’) and Henrik Björn (the […]
The bestselling Swedish author Viveca Sten’s hit crime novels ‘The Åre Murders’ will be adapted as a drama series by Viaplay. Set in the simultaneously beautiful and bleak mountain landscapes of northern Sweden, the six-part show is produced by SF Studios in partnership with Viaplay and is directed by Joakim Eliasson (‘Honour’; ‘Gåsmamman’). Sten’s books […]
Sweden-based Ovzon, whose mission statement is to “revolutionise mobile broadband via satellite providing global coverage with the highest bandwidth through the smallest terminals” has just declared its latest numbers, with revenues up 63 per cent. The company has also revealed that its next satellite, Ovzon 3, will launch by February 2023. Ovzon’s Q3 numbers (to […]
Viaplay has acquired the exclusive Swedish live rights to all FIS World Cup winter sports competitions held in Austria from the 2024/2025 season to the 2026/2027 season. Viaplay already holds the Nordic rights to hugely popular FIS World Cup events held in other countries, and will now become the home of all FIS rights in […]
The critically acclaimed bestseller A Nearly Normal Family by author Mattias Edvardsson will be adapted into a Swedish limited drama thriller series by Netflix. The novel, originally published in Sweden, has been sold in 550 000 copies across 35 territories worldwide. In the leading roles are Alexandra Karlsson Tyrefors, who’s making her acting debut as […]
WSC Sports, a specialist in AI sports video technology, will be bringing its AI and machine learning platform to ice hockey in Sweden, partnering with HockeyAllsvenskan. Through this collaboration, fans will now have access to real-time video highlights of all the HockeyAllsvenskan action across the league’s digital properties, as well as seeing them on big […]
Wowza, the live and VoD platform, has acquired Flowplayer, a Sweden-based video player specialist. The acquisition was made in partnership with Clearhaven Partner, a US-based private equity firm that focuses on software and technology, following its 2021 investment in Wowza. Financial terms were not disclosed. By acquiring Flowplayer, Wowza says it adds enhanced player functionality, […]
Netflix and Scen & Film (formerly Teaterförbundet, The Swedish Union for Performing Arts and Film) have announced an extended partnership. Following the agreement on success based remuneration for Swedish Netflix Original Series in 2020, Netflix and Scen & Film have now agreed on a similar framework for films. This means that when a Swedish Netflix […]
Satcube, a Swedish technology company that develops benchmark portable satellite terminals to provide on-the-spot satellite broadband, has announced ESA astronaut and physicist, Christer Fuglesang, as a Satcube advisor. Swedish Fuglesang is a professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, a space advisor at Saab, and retired ESA Astronaut. Mats Andersson, Chairman, Satcube, said: “The Satcube […]
Mediavision has analysed how the market for TV and streaming in Sweden was affected by households’ increasing concerns about the economy in Q2 2022. The analysis shows that households in Sweden continue to pay for their streaming subscriptions and that the market is growing according to trend. This results in a record quarter for the […]