Company behind Netflix’s ‘Midsummer Night’ adds offices in Sweden, Denmark and UK.
Norwegian production company The Global Ensemble Drama is expanding with a new CEO and adding offices in Sweden, Denmark and the UK.
Petter Testmann-Koch - former CEO at FremantleMedia Norway – takes over as CEO, starting in autumn 2023 and replacing current CEO Janne Hjeltnes, who becomes COO/producer.
Norwegian director, writer and producer Per-Olav Sørensen founded the company in Oslo in 2021 and remains as Cco and a director.
Tge Drama is opening branches in Sweden and Denmark, as well as in London, which will lead on its international co-productions.
Norwegian production company The Global Ensemble Drama is expanding with a new CEO and adding offices in Sweden, Denmark and the UK.
Petter Testmann-Koch - former CEO at FremantleMedia Norway – takes over as CEO, starting in autumn 2023 and replacing current CEO Janne Hjeltnes, who becomes COO/producer.
Norwegian director, writer and producer Per-Olav Sørensen founded the company in Oslo in 2021 and remains as Cco and a director.
Tge Drama is opening branches in Sweden and Denmark, as well as in London, which will lead on its international co-productions.
- 8/3/2023
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
High-profile Norwegian movie, theatre and TV helmer Per-Olav Sørensen has turned into one of Netflix’s hottest Nordic collaborators and show-runners since 2019. After the hit Swedish thriller series “Quicksand,” Norwegian dramedy “Home for Christmas” 1 & 2, Sørensen is currently filming Yellow Bird U.K.’s untitled “Spotify” series for the U.S. streamer.
In between drama series, Sørensen has steered the filming of the Netflix Original Norwegian pic “Royalteen,” co-helmed by rising talent Emile Beck. Toplining the modern Cinderella narrative are Matthias Storhøi, Ines Høysæter Asserson (“Skam”), Elli Müller Osborne (“Utøya: July 22”), and Veslemø Mørkrid (“Occupied”).
Based on the YA novel “The Heir,” written as a book series by journalists Randi Fuglehaug and Anne Gunn Halvorsen, “Royalteen” also marks the first production made under new label Global Ensemble Drama, founded by Sørensen.
Seasoned producer Janne Hjeltnes, most recently attached to Nrk’s youth show “Rod Knock,”which was crowned best series...
In between drama series, Sørensen has steered the filming of the Netflix Original Norwegian pic “Royalteen,” co-helmed by rising talent Emile Beck. Toplining the modern Cinderella narrative are Matthias Storhøi, Ines Høysæter Asserson (“Skam”), Elli Müller Osborne (“Utøya: July 22”), and Veslemø Mørkrid (“Occupied”).
Based on the YA novel “The Heir,” written as a book series by journalists Randi Fuglehaug and Anne Gunn Halvorsen, “Royalteen” also marks the first production made under new label Global Ensemble Drama, founded by Sørensen.
Seasoned producer Janne Hjeltnes, most recently attached to Nrk’s youth show “Rod Knock,”which was crowned best series...
- 8/25/2021
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
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