{"id":7654,"date":"2017-04-21T10:25:17","date_gmt":"2017-04-21T14:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/icelandic-drama-stella-blomkvist-picked-up-as-viaplay-original\/"},"modified":"2017-04-21T13:27:39","modified_gmt":"2017-04-21T17:27:39","slug":"icelandic-drama-stella-blomkvist-picked-up-as-viaplay-original","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tvdrama\/icelandic-drama-stella-blomkvist-picked-up-as-viaplay-original\/","title":{"rendered":"Icelandic Drama Stella Bl\u00f3mkvist Picked Up as Viaplay Original"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The new series <em>Stella Bl\u00f3mkvist<\/em>, an Icelandic TV drama based on a best-selling book series, is to join the slate of originals on Viaplay.<\/p>\n<p><em>Stella Bl\u00f3mkvist<\/em> was pitched at Series Mania 2016 a year ago and is distributed by Red Arrow International, which co-developed the series and will launch the show to the international market at MIPCOM 2017. Produced by Sagafilm, <em>Stella Bl\u00f3mkvist<\/em> is the first Icelandic series to be a Viaplay Original. Heida Reed, known for her role in the BBC drama <em>Poldark<\/em>, stars in the lead role as Stella Bl\u00f3mkvist.<\/p>\n<p>Filming has already begun on the 6&#215;45-minute and 3&#215;90-minute series. The mysterious author who writes under the pseudonym Stella Bl\u00f3mkvist has been able to remain anonymous since the books were first released some 20 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>Hilmar Sigurdsson, the CEO of Sagafilm in Iceland, said: \u201cIt\u2019s exciting to be a part of building the slate of Viaplay originals with <em>Stella Bl\u00f3mkvist<\/em>. The series is Sagafilm\u2019s most ambitious project to date and we are thrilled to have Viaplay as our Scandinavian partner on the project along with Siminn, our local broadcaster in Iceland.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The new series Stella Bl\u00f3mkvist, an Icelandic TV drama based on a best-selling book series, is to join the slate of originals on Viaplay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":350,"featured_media":7655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[70],"tags":[313,1823,1824,820],"class_list":["post-7654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-red-arrow-international","tag-sagafilm","tag-stella-blomkvist","tag-viaplay","pmpro-has-access"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Icelandic Drama Stella Bl\u00f3mkvist Picked Up as Viaplay Original - 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