DR Gross sales has picked up “Piggy” (“Murk” in Norwegian), a unusual crime comedy from promoting, movie and TV manufacturing banner The Oslo Firm, credited for Netflix’s “Dwelling for Christmas 1 & 2.”

The six-part collection set to premiere on the industrial channel TV2 Norway March 17, shall be sneak-peeked Feb. 9 on the Scandinavian Drama Sequence Showcase in Berlin, co-hosted by the Göteborg Movie Pageant’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient and the European Movie Market.

Headlining “Piggy”’s Norwegian ensemble forged are Ine Jansen (“Mammon”), Trond Espen Seim (“Energy Play”, “Varg Veum”), Jonis Josef (“Kasko”), John Carew (“Dwelling Floor”), Iben Akerlie (“Norsemen”), and Lars Berge (“Wisting”).

“The Playlist” co-helmer Hallgrim Haug serves as idea director on the collection, created by The Oslo Firm founder Trond Kvernstrøm. Each shared the writers’ room with Marie Hafting (“All the things You Love”), Tobias Nordbø, Katie Hetland and Kjetil Indregard. The Oslo Firm’s Ronny Johansen is producing.

The story activates Lisa (Jansen) a hard-working narcotics officer with anger administration points. Her life falls aside when her husband and colleague Jostein goes lacking throughout a high-profile narcotics case involving drug seller Marko Stankoviz (Carew). To high all of it off, her demented mom, Signe, can’t get a spot in a nursing dwelling and strikes in along with her.

Though everybody round Lisa says Jostein’s disappearance was an accident, she believes it’s linked to the Marko case that her husband was investigating. When she witnesses a botched interrogation of Marko himself, led by the “up and coming” officer Aila (Akerlie), Lisa needs to take issues into her personal palms. However her boss Ole (Ole Soo) is much from impressed and demotes her. 

By likelihood, in her new gloomy work setting, Lisa stumbles upon Shirouh (Josef), a petty legal wannabe slapstick comedian who has simply witnessed a homicide and seeks safety at Lisa’ dwelling. Now the 2 should assist one another to assist themselves. There’s additionally the eco-friendly photo voltaic panel importer Isak (Espen Seim) whom Lisa advertisements to her record of suspects. 

The Norwegian drama is DR Gross sales’ second Oslo Firm decide up after the youth drama “All the things You Love”, which snagged a scholar jury award at Canneseries 2022. 

““Piggy” has the proper DNA for us,” stated DR Gross sales’ govt director Pernille Munk Skydsgaard. “It’s a criminal offense comedy instructed in an entertaining and enjoyable means, with a feminine lead removed from excellent, which makes her advanced and human. We’ve been on the lookout for thrilling Nordic exhibits exhibits to bolster our slate, and this Norwegian collection sits as a pleasant different to our premium suspense drama “Prisoner” for instance,” stated DR Gross sales’ boss. 

Munk Skydsgaard is eager to spotlight that though her banner is the worldwide gross sales division of Danish pubcaster DR (Danmarks Radio), she has area for a number of exterior Nordic acquisitions a 12 months – fiction or documentaries. 

“In these difficult instances, the place producers are struggling to search out financing, we wish to get the phrase out that we’re selectively on the lookout for high quality tales – regardless of the format, so long as they’re entertaining, match our public service remit and mission to start out vital conversations about issues that matter. We prefer to enter the tasks at an early stage and work carefully with the producers on methods within the improvement and financing stage, and occasion in plans for remake gross sales and festivals,” Munk Skydsgaard commented. 

At Berlin’s European Movie Market, DR Gross sales will take up negotiations on DR’s premium exhibits “Carmen Curlers” Seasons 1 & 2, “Prisoner” – offered to key territories together with the U.Ok. with the BBC MHz for the U.S. – and the kitchen drama “Behind Each Man”.

On the documentary entrance, heading DR Gross sales’ slate are the Sundance Grand Jury Prize winner “A New King of Wilderness” by Silje Evensmo Jacobsen and “Life and Different Issues” by Max Kestner, set to open CPH:DOX in March.