{"id":19513,"date":"2023-10-27T09:00:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-27T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/worldscreen.com\/"},"modified":"2023-10-27T10:56:06","modified_gmt":"2023-10-27T14:56:06","slug":"bbc-acquires-danish-drama-prisoner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/bbc-acquires-danish-drama-prisoner\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC Acquires Danish Drama Prisoner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The six-part Danish series <em>Prisoner<\/em>, produced by DR Drama, has been acquired to air on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n<p>The show revolves around the lives of four prison officers whose personal challenges intertwine with the complexities of their workplace, which is plagued by bad press, hierarchy issues and a drug trade.<\/p>\n<p>Sofie Gr\u00e5b\u00f8l, David Dencik, Youssef Wayne Hvidtfeldt and Charlotte Fich are among the main cast members. The series is created by Kim Fupz Aakeson (<em>The Shift<\/em>, <em>Welcome to Utmark<\/em>, <em>Cry Wolf<\/em>,<em> Young Astrid<\/em>) and directed and co-created by Michael Noer (<em>Before the Frost<\/em>, <em>Papillon<\/em>, <em>R<\/em>) and Frederik Louis Hviid (<em>Temple<\/em>, <em>Follow The Money<\/em>, <em>Shorta<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p><em>Prisoner<\/em> is produced by DR Drama in collaboration with public broadcasters NRK, SVT, Yle and R\u00daV as part of the Nordic 12 partnership.<\/p>\n<p>Sue Deeks, head of program acquisitions at BBC, said, \u201c<em>Prisoner<\/em> is an authentic, complex and compelling portrait of the harsh realities of life in prison, where it isn\u2019t only the inmates who are trapped\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The six-part Danish series Prisoner, produced by DR Drama, has been acquired to air on BBC Four and BBC iPlayer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1412,"featured_media":19514,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[237,396,769,7919,7920,5856],"class_list":["post-19513","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-bbc","tag-bbc-four","tag-bbc-iplayer","tag-dr-drama","tag-prisoner","tag-sue-deeks","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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