Piv Bernth’s Apple Tree Productions Working With Ditte Hansen & Louise Mieritz On Comedy-Drama Series Set In A Shopping Mall
deadline.comEXCLUSIVE: From dark to light – Piv Bernth, one of the architects of the Nordic Noir genre, is working on Feelings & Things, a comedy-drama set in a shopping mall.
Bernth and her Apple Tree Productions banner are reuniting with Ditte Hansen and Louise Mieritz on the project, which they hope to shoot next year.
Bernth is behind some of the biggest Danish dramas ever. She produced shows including The Killing and The Bridge and as a commissioner greenlit series such as Borgen and Ride Upon The Storm, pioneering a wave of brooding high-end drama.
Now running her own prodco, the ITV Studios-backed Apple Tree, Bernth was speaking to Deadline at the Monte Carlo TV Festival, where she is on the jury in the fiction category. “We are working on a comedy with Ditte Hansen and Louise Mieritz who did Chorus Girls,” Bernth told Deadline. “It’s set in a shopping mall and about the employees in the shops, which I think is quite universal. “Things happen and the [employees] form a group and get a psychologist, who’s the worst ever, the cheapest in town, because the management won’t pay for it.
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