{"id":11297,"date":"2021-09-21T11:02:37","date_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:02:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev2.worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen\/"},"modified":"2021-09-21T11:17:29","modified_gmt":"2021-09-21T15:17:29","slug":"banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2021\/09\/21\/banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen\/","title":{"rendered":"Banijay Boards Norwegian Series Countrymen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Countrymen<\/em>, a new scripted series from the Norwegian label Rubicon for public broadcaster NRK, in co-production with ARTE France, will be distributed internationally by Banijay Rights.<\/p>\n<p>In the eight-part series, four men with dubious plans to move to a farm in the rural Norwegian countryside end up as the founders of Norway&#8217;s first halal cheesemaking business\u2014more or less against their will. <em>Countrymen<\/em> is created and written by Izer Aliu (<em>Hunting Files<\/em>), along with Rubicon\u2019s Anne Bj\u00f8rnstad. Nader Khademi (<em>Ninjababy<\/em>, <em>Beforeigners<\/em>, <em>Homeground<\/em>, <em>Witch Hunt<\/em>), Ayaz Hussain (<em>Kasim B\u00e6der<\/em>), Jonas Strand Gravli (<em>Ragnarok<\/em>, <em>Wisting<\/em>, <em>July 22<\/em>), Arben Bala (<em>Exit<\/em>, <em>Lilyhammer<\/em>) and Erika Strand Mamelund star.<\/p>\n<p>Bj\u00f8rnstad, creative director at Rubicon, said: \u201cThis metaphoric concept will get people talking here in Norway and also resonate with global audiences. This high-quality series has been elevated with Izer Aliu writing and directing, and we are proud to create characters that are so brilliantly portrayed with warmth and humor by our cast.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Countrymen, a new scripted series from the Norwegian label Rubicon for public broadcaster NRK, in co-production with ARTE France, will be distributed internationally by Banijay Rights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1033,"featured_media":11298,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[2177,997,2758,1580,2759],"class_list":["post-11297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","","category-top-stories","tag-arte-france","tag-banijay-rights","tag-countrymen","tag-nrk","tag-rubicon"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Banijay Boards Norwegian Series Countrymen - TVEUROPE<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2021\/09\/21\/banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Banijay Boards Norwegian Series Countrymen - TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Countrymen, a new scripted series from the Norwegian label Rubicon for public broadcaster NRK, in co-production with ARTE France, will be distributed internationally by Banijay Rights.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2021\/09\/21\/banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"TVEUROPE\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-09-21T15:02:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2021-09-21T15:17:29+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/14\/2015\/09\/countrymen-banijay-921.jpeg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Chelsea Regan\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2021\/09\/21\/banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2021\/09\/21\/banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen\/\",\"name\":\"Banijay Boards Norwegian Series Countrymen - TVEUROPE\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2021-09-21T15:02:37+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2021-09-21T15:17:29+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2021\/09\/21\/banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2021\/09\/21\/banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/2021\/09\/21\/banijay-boards-norwegian-series-countrymen\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Banijay Boards Norwegian Series Countrymen\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/\",\"name\":\"TVEUROPE\",\"description\":\"\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/worldscreen.com\/tveurope\/#\/schema\/person\/2a2c6d8fb3c7c8b4220b8877ecffb79a\",\"name\":\"Chelsea Regan\",\"description\":\"Chelsea Regan is the managing editor of World Screen. 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