Cry Wolf wins Best Long Form Series at the Danish 'TVPrisen' awards

At Saturday’s TV awards ceremony in Copenhagen hosted by the Danish Producers Association, DR swept awards in the TV series and documentary categories.

DR Drama’s Cry Wolf (Ulven kommer) was voted Best long form series, beating other strong contenders including Netflix’s The Chestnut Man, Ragnarok 2, TV2’s The Interrogation and TV2 Charlie’s New Nurses S3.

The drama created by Maja Jul Larsen won the Nordisk Film & TV Fond-Best Nordic TV Screenplay in 2021.

DR Drama also won Best Short series with its Christmas calendar show A Secret Gift (Julefeber) written by Rune Schjøtt Wieth (The Rain, A Perfectly Normal Family co-writer), while Tæt på Sandheden med Jonatan Span produced by Small Shoes Production for DR2 scooped Best Satire/Comedy.

In the non-fiction genre, the Best Documentary Award went to Mads Brügger’s The Mole-Undercover in North Korea (Muldvarpen-undercover i Nordkorea) produced by Denmark’s Wingman Media and Norway’s Piraya Film, while Absolute Beginners (Efterskolen) won Best Reportage Series. The docu series which picked up a Prix Europa last October was directed by Thora Lorentzen, winner of a Special Mention at Nordic Talents 2017 for the series pitch.

The audience award went to TV2 Denmark’s long-running success Seaside Hotel season 8 (Badehotellet season 8), followed by more than 1.6 million average viewers on linear TV.

The TVPrisen awards celebrate the best Danish TV programmes of the year, acknowledged by the local TV industry.

For the full list of awards, check: www.tvprisen.dk