Nordic Entertainment Group has appointed SVT executive Stephen Mowbray as Head of Series and Kids, a newly created acquisitions role at the company’s SVOD service, Viaplay.
Nordic Entertainment Group and Filmlance International, a Banijay company, are partnering with The Astrid Lindgren Company to adapt Astrid Lindgren’s world-famous story “Ronja the Robber’s Daughter” into a major Viaplay Original.
Produced by Bigster for Nordic Entertainment Group’s Viaplay, “Honour” is already one of the most successful Swedish TV exports of all time, and has been sold to more than 60 territories worldwide.