Blomgren’s appointment as Endemol Shine Group’s newly created post as Head of Scripted for Europe, Middle East and Asia heralds the group’s ambition to consolidate its non-English language portfolio. He will be responsible for enhancing the group’s offer of premium content through increased collaboration and shared investment across the Group, and opportunities for talent, tasks that he already filled under his existing role within the group as Chairman of Scripted Exchange.

He will work closely with Endemol Shine Group’s wide network of labels from the Nordics (Filmlance International, Rubicon TV), Germany (Wiedemann and Berg), the Netherlands (NL Flms), France (ES Fiction), Iberia (Diagonal), Israel (Endemol Shine Studios Israel) and scripted teams in Italy, Poland, Russia, India and China.

Peter Salmon, Endemol Shine Group’s Chief Creative Officer said: “The fact that a global production leader like Endemol Shine has asked one of its stars, Lars Blomgren, to spearhead this charge across key territories speaks volumes for our ambition. Lars has trail-blazed from Scandinavia as godfather to wonderful Nordic Noir titles like The Bridge. Now, working with our great scripted producers from Madrid to Amsterdam, Paris to Tel Aviv, Rome to Oslo - and beyond - we want to unleash the full potential of our non-English stable for our existing buyers as well as new partners and platforms.”

Blomgren said: “It’s a privilege to be given an opportunity to work with such a talented and extraordinary group of international scripted producers across Endemol Shine. As the final chapter closes on Bron, it feels the right time to apply everything I’ve learned with it across 10 years on the international stage to this new challenge. It has been an hugely enjoyable 24 years in total at Filmlance, working with so many gifted friends, including of course Anders, who is the perfect person to lead that very special company from here.”

Blomgren has supervised for Shine Endemol the international adaptations of the Swedish/Danish cult show The Bridge (Bron/Broen) in UK/France (The Tunnel), Germany/Austria (Der Pass), USA/Mexico (The Bridge), Russia/Estonia (Moct/Sild) and Singapore/Malaysia (The Bridge).

Endemol Shine Group’s Non-English language shows in its slate include The Councilman (TV2) in Norway, the return of Dark (Netflix) and 4 Blocks (TNT Series) in Germany; Cathedral of the Sea (Antena 3/TV3/Netflix) and Matadero (Antena 3) from Spain; Harem and Nevsu (Reshet) and Queens (Hot) in Israel; and Italy’s L’Allieva (Rai Uno).

Filmlance’s current line-up comprise new seasons of Beck (C More/TV4), The Sandhamn Murders (C More/TV4), Spring Tide (SVT) and the upcoming mini-series Tsunami (SVT), set to start production in the fall.