Last Thursday two Nordic thriller TV shows came home with top awards from Asia’s largest TV Drama festival the Seoul International Drama Awards. NRK’s in-house produced Mammon was awarded the Golden Bird Prize for Best Mini-series and Best Director Award (Cecilie Mosli) and the Swedish The Fat and the Angry (Ettor och nollor) produced by Göta Film for SVT scooped Best TV Movie.
The six part series Mammon beat other high profile shows such as Homeland and Real Humans. Created by the brothers Vegard and Gjermund Stenberg Eriksen, Mammon is one of NRK’s most popular in-house drama series ever with a total of 1.3 million viewers per episode when it aired earlier this year. It was sold to 17 countries, and remakes both for the American marked and HBO Europe are in progress. DRG handles world distribution. A second season of eight episodes will start filming in November, and is set to air in 2016.
The Fat and the Angry aired on SVT last February and director Johan Renck and writer Oskar Söderlund are in discussions with the BBC to make a UK remake.