Considering that Iceland is a
tiny
TV market -- the country's population is just 320,000 --, producing a drama series good enough to be shown on the BBC is quite an achievement!
It's not the first Icelandic series shown by the BBC: in 2011, they broadcast a sitcom called The Night Shift. (By the time of its airing in the UK, one of the actors was mayor of Reykjavík).
It looks like it's getting a lot of positive receptions. Also back to the East Asian dramas or specifically Korean TV dramas, for those of you that are interested:
Also the Guardian article on another page of this forum mentioned K-drama in the article indicating Korean drama may broadcast in the UK somewhere in the future:
.@guardian predicts It's Okay That's Love will open doors for Korean dramas on British TV, do you agree? https://t.co/bMhEJWi2kJ
DRAMA: Trapped
On: BBC Four HD (9)
Date: Saturday 13th February 2016 (starting in 9 days)
Time: 21:00 to 21:50 (50 minutes long)
Icelandic crime drama series. In a small fishing port, a ferry docks. That same day a dismembered body is found in the river, sparking an investigation and a call to Reykjavik for detective reinforcements to assist the small local police force. With the ferry held in dock and a bad snowstorm threatening to cut off the town, chief of police Andri is under pressure to deliver results quickly. (In Icelandic with English subtitles).
(New Series, Widescreen, High Definition, Subtitles, Dolby Digital 5.1, Episode 1)
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These all sound the same to me - murder in a small town, outsider called in to investigate.
DRAMA: Trapped
On: BBC Four HD (9)
Date: Saturday 13th February 2016 (starting in 9 days)
Time: 21:00 to 21:50 (50 minutes long)
Icelandic crime drama series. In a small fishing port, a ferry docks. That same day a dismembered body is found in the river, sparking an investigation and a call to Reykjavik for detective reinforcements to assist the small local police force. With the ferry held in dock and a bad snowstorm threatening to cut off the town, chief of police Andri is under pressure to deliver results quickly. (In Icelandic with English subtitles).
(New Series, Widescreen, High Definition, Subtitles, Dolby Digital 5.1, Episode 1)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Excerpt taken from DigiGuide - the world's best TV guide available from http://www.getdigiguide.tv/?p=1&r=7646
Copyright (c) GipsyMedia Limited.
These all sound the same to me - murder in a small town, outsider called in to investigate.
That's typical of the so called "deckare" genre of Nordic crime fiction (Beck, Wallander etc.) but there are a lot of other shows also popping up - Saboteurs/The Heavy Water War (Norwegian WWII drama), Occupied (Imagining Norway invaded by Russia to force oil and gas production to continue), Deutschland 83 (Cold War Germany), Spin (French political drama), Cordon (Belgian plague drama), The Returned (French people returning from the dead) etc.
There's so much interesting and 'different' European drama appearing it's great. I do hope that some UK outlets pick up The Sandhamn Murders, Irene Huss and Varg Veum. I've enjoyed all of them (They're all quite crimey)
I've just finished watching Occupied - a little bit clunky in the way it pulls the story together in the beginning, but it really grew on me. You kind of have to suspend your sense of reality - especially given the low oil price today! But it's worth a look.
REALITY SHOW: Thicker Than Water
On: More4 HD (14)
Date: Thursday 3rd March 2016 (starting in 13 days)
Time: 22:00 to 23:20 (1 hour and 20 minutes long)
Walter Presents - which showcases the best foreign language drama from around the world - features this darkly atmospheric Swedish series in which a mother reunites her three adult children and forces them to confront the family secrets buried in their past. A beautiful island in the Swedish Alandic archipelago is home to a popular lodge, run by Anna-Lisa Waldemar and her youngest son Oskar. Mysteriously, Anna-Lisa has summoned her eldest son Lasse and her daughter Jonna home - it's the first time the family have been together in years. Despite the idyllic setting, the homecoming is full of conflict, arousing old memories, resentments and secrets.
(New Series, Subtitles, Subtitled, In Swedish with English Subtitles, Part 1 of 10, High Definition, Episode 1, 4 Star)
I'll put this here because the show is kind of a foreign drama to me and you guys as its jointly produced by Sky and NBC. You, Me and the Apocalypse is currently airing on NBC. I have no questions or comments about the show other than that it's quirky and interesting. But my question is about shows overall in the UK. I've noticed as the shows go to break and return the title card reappears - something that rarely happens in the US. So I'm wondering is this a common practice in the UK?
I'll put this here because the show is kind of a foreign drama to me and you guys as its jointly produced by Sky and NBC. You, Me and the Apocalypse is currently airing on NBC. I have no questions or comments about the show other than that it's quirky and interesting. But my question is about shows overall in the UK. I've noticed as the shows go to break and return the title card reappears - something that rarely happens in the US. So I'm wondering is this a common practice in the UK?
Pretty much, yes. I think Ofcom regulations stipulate a clear distinction between programming and advertising breaks, whether this is using a title card or channel ID break bumper (or both).
I'll put this here because the show is kind of a foreign drama to me and you guys as its jointly produced by Sky and NBC. You, Me and the Apocalypse is currently airing on NBC. I have no questions or comments about the show other than that it's quirky and interesting. But my question is about shows overall in the UK. I've noticed as the shows go to break and return the title card reappears - something that rarely happens in the US. So I'm wondering is this a common practice in the UK?
Basically...
Quote:
Television advertising must be readily recognisable as such and kept quite separate from other parts of the programme service. Breaks containing advertising spots of any kind, including teleshopping spots, must be identified in vision and/or sound, eg, station idents going in and out of breaks. Teleshopping windows must be identified both in vision and in sound at both the beginning and end of the break. (see Section 8.1.2B (iii) below).
Pretty much all channels in the UK have a breakbumper going into an ad break, ranging from 1 to 7 seconds. And its the same practice amongst European countries as well.
It also used to be the case that you could get "End of Part One"/ "Part Two" captions over the final scene before the break/first scene after - these are now far less common (though occasionally used).
Though from 1989 to 1997, Sky One operated the US practice of crashing straight into the programme, with a caption showing the Sky One logo and the name of the programme being displayed.