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Arte France’s Alexandre Piel Unveils New Nordic TV Buys, Talks Co-Production Spirit (EXCLUSIVE)
The broadcaster’s 2025 Nordic slate takes in Norwegian hospital drama ‘Liv,’ ‘Pørni,’ Denmark’s ‘Carmen Curler’s and Finland’s ‘Mobile 101.’
Returning hit crime shows will include the Danish-Swedish cult series “Bron” (“The Bridge”), to be binged-watched across four seasons, “Sandhamn Murders,” one of the hottest Swedish brands on the French broadcaster, and slow-burn Danish “DNA”, co-produced by Arte France and TV2 Denmark. The story about a group of young Swedish UN soldiers and their commander as they struggle with the complexities of war in the Balkans in the 1990s, immediately caught his eye, as he was keen to bring to the forefront a new project about Europe’s recent shared history, like Bellocchio’s take on Italy’s former Prime Minister Aldo Moro’s 1978 kidnapping and assassination in “Exterior Night.” Underscoring Arte France’s international push and gradual move away from its siloed French/foreign-language strands, Piel admits that this understanding and acceptance of letting stories, talents’ visions – not nationality nor language – drive the production, was a process which took some time.
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