Miso Film, SVT, and Film i Väs have partnered to adapt Linn Ullmann’s novel ‘The Cold Song’ for television. Plans for the series were announced this afternoon at the Goteborg Film Festival’s TV Drama Vision sidebar.
Mikael Marcimain (Blackwater) will direct the six-episode series, which is a co-production between Fremantle’s Miso Film, SVT, Film i Väst, and Northern European public service broadcasters through the New8 initiative.
Fremantle is handling international sales. Filming will start on the Swedish west coast this fall. The series is slated for release on SVT in the fall of 2026.
As part of SVT’s New 8 collaboration, the series will premiere across the Nordics, Germany, Belgium, and the Netherlands. Described as a “gripping and suspenseful drama,” the show follows Siri, a restaurant owner, and her husband novelist Jon, who lead a busy life in Stockholm with their two daughters.
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