{"id":23102,"date":"2025-07-30T09:45:19","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T13:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/ruv-zdf-board-new-icelandic-german-drama\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T15:51:22","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T19:51:22","slug":"ruv-zdf-board-new-icelandic-german-drama-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/ruv-zdf-board-new-icelandic-german-drama-2\/","title":{"rendered":"R\u00daV &#038; ZDF Board New Icelandic-German Drama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>R\u00daV in Iceland and ZDF in Germany have commissioned <em>Death of a Horse <\/em>from ACT4 and Windlight Pictures, with Erik Barmack\u2019s Wild Sheep Content on board as the show&#8217;s distributor.<\/p>\n<p>The series is R\u00daV\u2019s first official contribution to the New8 initiative, an alliance among eight European pubcasters. It was created by ACT4\u2019s Birkir Bl\u00e6r Ing\u00f3lfsson and J\u00f3nas Margeir Ing\u00f3lfsson and co-written by Judith Angerbauer and Birkir Bl\u00e6r Ing\u00f3lfsson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re honored to present Iceland\u2019s first contribution to the New8 collaboration,\u201d said J\u00f3nas Margeir Ing\u00f3lfsson, CEO of ACT4 and executive producer of the series. \u201cIt\u2019s a fitting series\u2014a crime-driven yet highly entertaining Icelandic story with great international appeal. With fantastic partners in Windlight Pictures and Wild Sheep Content and a truly valuable cooperation with R\u00daV and ZDF, <em>Death of a Horse<\/em> will be a truly unique series from ACT4.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201c<em>Death of a Horse <\/em>is a bold, character-driven series that brings together some of the most exciting creative voices in Europe,\u201d added Moritz Polter, managing director and executive producer of Windlight Pictures. \u201cWhat excites us about <em>Death of a Horse<\/em> is not only its powerful storytelling but the spirit of collaboration behind it. ACT4 and Wild Sheep bring such passion and clarity to the project\u2014it\u2019s been a rewarding journey building this series together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Erik Barmack, founder and CEO of Wild Sheep Content, added, \u201c<em>Death of a Horse<\/em> is grounded in Icelandic culture but has clear international appeal, and this partnership reflects exactly the kind of cross-border collaboration we believe in at Wild Sheep.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>R\u00daV in Iceland and ZDF in Germany have commissioned Death of a Horse from ACT4 and Windlight Pictures, with Erik Barmack\u2019s Wild Sheep Content on board as the show&#8217;s distributor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":290,"featured_media":23107,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[9143,11070,3857,6209,7727,3538,4890,1047],"class_list":["post-23102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-act4","tag-death-of-a-horse","tag-erik-barmack","tag-ruv","tag-ruv-iceland","tag-wild-sheep-content","tag-windlight-pictures","tag-zdf","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>R\u00daV &amp; 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