Exclusive: Leonard Cohen’s relationship with muse Marianne Ihlen is going under the microscope in a 1960s-set drama co-production for Norwegian broadcaster Nrk.
The UK’s Buccaneer Media and Dag and Lilyhammer writer Øystein Karlsen’s Oslo-based Redpoint Productions are co-producing So Long, Marianne with Canada’s Connect3 Media.
The 8×45 minutes series is billed by producers as an “intimate” story of “two equally lonely people falling in love in a period of their life when they are still trying to figure out who they are”.
Buccanneer is heading to Mip TV in Cannes this week to attract distributors and broadcasters.
A majority of the series will be set on the Greek island of Hydra where the pair met before starting a chaotic relationship that inspired the late singer-songwriter to pen songs such as ‘So Long, Marianne’, ‘That’s No Way To Say Goodbye’ and ‘Bird On The Wire...
The UK’s Buccaneer Media and Dag and Lilyhammer writer Øystein Karlsen’s Oslo-based Redpoint Productions are co-producing So Long, Marianne with Canada’s Connect3 Media.
The 8×45 minutes series is billed by producers as an “intimate” story of “two equally lonely people falling in love in a period of their life when they are still trying to figure out who they are”.
Buccanneer is heading to Mip TV in Cannes this week to attract distributors and broadcasters.
A majority of the series will be set on the Greek island of Hydra where the pair met before starting a chaotic relationship that inspired the late singer-songwriter to pen songs such as ‘So Long, Marianne’, ‘That’s No Way To Say Goodbye’ and ‘Bird On The Wire...
- 4/3/2022
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
Some of the world's leading international TV producing talents will gather with Norwegian government officials at a special conference Wednesday in Bergen, Norway, in order to set in motion a multimillion-dollar plan for Norway to win a coveted International Emmy by 2007. It might sound a little peculiar, a government putting its weight behind a national effort to win an Emmy statuette. But that's exactly what's going on in Norway this week -- and officials there have no hesitation in explaining why the scheme makes so much sense for them. Petter Wallace, a senior official with the Norwegian Film Fund, which is organizing the Emmy push, explained that Norway is eager to build its indigenous TV output with strong local dramas and other programming. To that end, it has established a special program called "Emmy 2007". "It's the first national scheme in which a government has supported TV drama in Europe," Wallace said. "It's been quite difficult for a small country like Norway, with a population of only 4.5 million people, to make serious drama because it's just so expensive to make. So Norway decided that it would finance drama production. But we felt that it was necessary to raise the bar and to set ourselves a big goal and to have everybody pulling together, the government, the TV stations, the producers. "We decided that the most prestigious award that a drama series could win is an International Emmy. So that is our symbolic goal. We are going for an International Emmy by 2007," he said. The programs chosen by the film fund for development under the plan will be local-language programming with local nuances and accents. "We are going to make genuine Norwegian drama," he added.
- 5/10/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Some of the world's leading international TV producing talents will gather with Norwegian government officials at a special conference Wednesday in Bergen, Norway, in order to set in motion a multimillion-dollar plan for Norway to win a coveted International Emmy by 2007. It might sound a little peculiar, a government putting its weight behind a national effort to win an Emmy statuette. But that's exactly what's going on in Norway this week -- and officials there have no hesitation in explaining why the scheme makes so much sense for them. Petter Wallace, a senior official with the Norwegian Film Fund, which is organizing the Emmy push, explained that Norway is eager to build its indigenous TV output with strong local dramas and other programming. To that end, it has established a special program called "Emmy 2007". "It's the first national scheme in which a government has supported TV drama in Europe," Wallace said. "It's been quite difficult for a small country like Norway, with a population of only 4.5 million people, to make serious drama because it's just so expensive to make. So Norway decided that it would finance drama production. But we felt that it was necessary to raise the bar and to set ourselves a big goal and to have everybody pulling together, the government, the TV stations, the producers. "We decided that the most prestigious award that a drama series could win is an International Emmy. So that is our symbolic goal. We are going for an International Emmy by 2007," he said. The programs chosen by the film fund for development under the plan will be local-language programming with local nuances and accents. "We are going to make genuine Norwegian drama," he added.
- 5/10/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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