Launching tonight on Sweden’s TV4 is the channel’s first original English-language show. Weirdly, it’s made by and stars Greg Poehler and Amy Poehler (Parks and Recreation), and is a semi-autobiographical story about a New York accountant who moves to Sweden to be with his girlfriend. Amy Poehler is his client.
I’ve no idea if this is essentially Sweden’s response to Norway’s Lillyhammer, but it’s happening, all the same. Here’s a trailer. Or two.
I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
