BBC Buys ‘Households Like Ours’ From Thomas Vinterberg, Studiocanal

The BBC has acquired Oscar-nominated director Thomas Vinterberg‘s first TV collection.

The company has picked up the apocalyptic Households Like Ours from Studiocanal.

Households Like Ours, which premiered at Venice and launched on Scandi broadcasters and Canal+ late final yr, is about in Denmark in a not-too-distant future the place rising water ranges can now not be ignored and the nation must be evacuated. As folks disperse in all instructions, they need to bid farewell to what they love, what they know, and who they’re. Shot throughout 5 international locations, the collection was proven at Venice and Toronto. It stars Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Magnus Millang, Esben Smed, Thomas Bo Larsen, David Dencik, Asta Kamma August, and Max Kaysen Høyrup.

Vinterberg stated he has at all times had a “deepfelt reference to the UK and as you will note, it additionally performs an element on this collection.” “Subsequently, it’s with keen anticipation that I now await how a brand new viewers will obtain Households Like Ours, and I’m very grateful to the BBC for delivering this story to a nation I really feel such a detailed kinship with,” he added.

Vinterberg is a storied Danish director who made 2020’s Oscar-nominated Mads Mikkelsen-starrer One other Spherical, which is at present being remade in English with Leonardo Di Caprio and Chris Rock. Previous credit embrace The Hunt and Far From the Madding Crowd.

The BBC has lengthy been a purchaser of Scandi drama and was an early acquirer of hits like The Bridge.

Households Like Ours was co-written by Bo Hr. Hansen and produced by Lars von Trier’s Zentropa Entertainments for TV 2 Denmark, Studiocanal and Canal+. It was co-funded by The Danish Movie Institute – Public Service Fund, The European Union and Nordisk Movie & TV Fond in co-production with NRK, TV4, Ard Degeto, co-produced by Movie I Väst, Sirena Movie, Zentropa Sweden, Saga Movie and Ginger Footage, co-produced with the assist from Czech Movie Fund and BNP Paribas Fortis Movie Finance in collaboration with Canal+ Poland and M7. It’s distributed by Studiocanal.