{"id":7267,"date":"2017-02-06T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2017-02-06T15:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/zdfneo-boards-scandi-crime-thriller-below-the-surface\/"},"modified":"2017-02-06T12:27:36","modified_gmt":"2017-02-06T17:27:36","slug":"zdfneo-boards-scandi-crime-thriller-below-the-surface","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/zdfneo-boards-scandi-crime-thriller-below-the-surface\/","title":{"rendered":"ZDFneo Boards Scandi Crime Thriller Below the Surface"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Germany&#8217;s ZDFneo has signed on as a co-production partner for the new drama series <em>Below the Surface<\/em> with SAM Productions.<\/p>\n<p><em>Below the Surface<\/em> was originally commissioned by Discovery Networks Denmark for Kanal 5, where it will debut later this spring. The drama will also air on Kanal 5 in Sweden and TV Norge in Norway and broadcast on Iceland\u2019s RUV.<\/p>\n<p>The eight-part crime thriller comes from leading Scandinavian creatives, with Kasper Barfoed as creator, head writer and concept director, alongside Morten Kjems Hytten Juhl, who serves as producer. SAM Productions\u2019 S\u00f8ren Sveistrup (<em>The Killing<\/em>), Adam Price (<em>Borgen<\/em>) and Meta Louise Foldager S\u00f8rensen (<em>A Royal Affair<\/em>) and ZDF editors Frank Seyberth and Wolfgang Feindt serve as executive producers.<\/p>\n<p>STUDIOCANAL handles worldwide distribution.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Simone Emmelius, the head of ZDFneo, said, \u201cIn 2017, ZDFneo will be showcasing its first international co-productions, so extending our fiction portfolio in TV and online is key for us. Therefore, I\u2019m glad that we have found suitable partners in Discovery, SAM and STUDIOCANAL, and am sure that\u00a0<em>Below the Surface<\/em> will intrigue our young target audience.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Price at SAM Productions added, \u201cWe are thrilled that our brand-new Scandinavian collaboration has brought together a winning partnership between ZDFneo, Discovery and STUDIOCANAL\u2014three of the leading companies in international television.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Rola Bauer, the managing director at STUDIOCANAL TV, commented, &#8220;SAM has brilliantly created a gritty and grounded narrative that touches all of our fears today and we wanted to help find the right co-pro partner to support SAM and their partner Discovery, so, for us, ZDFneo was such a natural fit and we are thrilled that they saw the relevance of this story. It was an excellent collaborative effort between SAM&#8217;s and STUDIOCANAL&#8217;s teams and I\u2019d like to thank Jonas Bauer, the head of international acquisitions and co-productions; Nicolas Loock, the CFO of TV series; Matthias Nitschke, the senior VP of business affairs and legal at STUDIOCANAL; and Nina Bisgaard, financial producer at SAM Productions, for securing this important deal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LONDON: Germany&#8217;s ZDFneo has signed on as a co-production partner for the new drama series Below the Surface with SAM Productions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[1649,230,1650],"class_list":["post-7267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-below-the-surface","tag-studiocanal","tag-zdfneo","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - 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