What if crisis-whammies Nordic drama producers would now tap into other European stories instead of staying in the Nordic bubble and self-sufficient eco-system of mixed national and regional private and public coin? Would it be payback time for European partners who until now have bought into the Nordic Noir, without some form of reciprocity?
The question was raised by Belgium producer Helen Perquy from Banijay Benelux’s Jonnydepony at this week’s Göteborg TV Drama Vision, at a panel which looked into the current Nordic drama production mayhem and possible solutions.
“In Belgium, we do have soft money, tax shelters, Vaf [Flanders Audiovisual Fund], Screen Flanders but you guys in the Nordics have had way more money from broadcasters and global streamers, while we’ve had to be creative [with our financing],” said Perquy.
“For years we’ve watched your series and films, they’ve been up there,” noted the producer, raising her arm up in the air.
The question was raised by Belgium producer Helen Perquy from Banijay Benelux’s Jonnydepony at this week’s Göteborg TV Drama Vision, at a panel which looked into the current Nordic drama production mayhem and possible solutions.
“In Belgium, we do have soft money, tax shelters, Vaf [Flanders Audiovisual Fund], Screen Flanders but you guys in the Nordics have had way more money from broadcasters and global streamers, while we’ve had to be creative [with our financing],” said Perquy.
“For years we’ve watched your series and films, they’ve been up there,” noted the producer, raising her arm up in the air.
- 2/3/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Banijay Benelux’s Belgian banner Jonnydepony has set rising star Willem De Schryver from Netflix’s YA hit show” High Tides” (“Knokke Off”) for the title role of “I Was a Cop in the 80s,” ordered by Amazon Prime Netherlands and Flemish streamer Streamz.
The period crime drama in development will be pitched by seasoned showrunner Philippe De Schepper, co-writer Bas Adriaensen and producer Helen Perquy (“Tabula Rasa”) as part of a Focus on Flanders at Göteborg’s forthcoming TV Drama Vision (Jan. 30-31). Wim Geudens is directing.
Perquy said that with their new premium show, De Schepper and Adriaensen were keen to depict via a character-driven story, the world of the gendarmerie [Belgium’s former paramilitary police force] in the turbulent 1980s, when the country was shaken by criminal gangs, such as the notorious ‘Brabant Killers’. The gendarmerie’s slack law enforcement measures against the gang behind 28 killings, prompted theories that the military-based police force...
The period crime drama in development will be pitched by seasoned showrunner Philippe De Schepper, co-writer Bas Adriaensen and producer Helen Perquy (“Tabula Rasa”) as part of a Focus on Flanders at Göteborg’s forthcoming TV Drama Vision (Jan. 30-31). Wim Geudens is directing.
Perquy said that with their new premium show, De Schepper and Adriaensen were keen to depict via a character-driven story, the world of the gendarmerie [Belgium’s former paramilitary police force] in the turbulent 1980s, when the country was shaken by criminal gangs, such as the notorious ‘Brabant Killers’. The gendarmerie’s slack law enforcement measures against the gang behind 28 killings, prompted theories that the military-based police force...
- 1/26/2024
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Germany’s top scripted conference Seriencamp is headed for a new home in Cologne this summer, and its line-up is coming together.
The three-day event will take place between June 14-16 at the Cinenova in Cologne’s Ehrenfeld district, marking a return to a fully physical presence after a hiatus in 2022 and a hybrid event in 2021. Deadline has signed on as the event’s official media partner and will be on the ground hosting and covering panels and keynotes.
Among the those featuring at the event’s Story Exchange project market will be Paramount+, Prime Video and Amazon Studios, and Apple TV+. German networks Zdf, Sky Deutschland, Rtl, Arte and ServusTV will also attend the market, in which decision makers from major international companies speak with producers, writers and creators. The focus is on collaboration and co-production.
Zdf, Paramount+, Prime Video, Sky, ZDFneo and Ard are also expected to...
The three-day event will take place between June 14-16 at the Cinenova in Cologne’s Ehrenfeld district, marking a return to a fully physical presence after a hiatus in 2022 and a hybrid event in 2021. Deadline has signed on as the event’s official media partner and will be on the ground hosting and covering panels and keynotes.
Among the those featuring at the event’s Story Exchange project market will be Paramount+, Prime Video and Amazon Studios, and Apple TV+. German networks Zdf, Sky Deutschland, Rtl, Arte and ServusTV will also attend the market, in which decision makers from major international companies speak with producers, writers and creators. The focus is on collaboration and co-production.
Zdf, Paramount+, Prime Video, Sky, ZDFneo and Ard are also expected to...
- 5/2/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
International production giant Banijay continues to gobble up independent production companies, on Thursday unveiling that it has taken a majority stake in jonnydepony, a boutique TV outfit in Belgium.
Banijay Benelux, which produces such local series as hit soap opera Familie, will fold jonnydepony into its scripted operations.
Set up by Philippe De Schepper in 2015, jonnydepony specializes in high-end drama series, often set up as European co-productions. Recent successes include Finnish-Belgian crime series Transport from Finnish showrunner Auli Mantila, which looks at the underground world of illegal horse smuggling; and the terrorist thriller Blackout, which imagines an attack on a nuclear power plant that plunges all of Belgium into darkness.
Upcoming projects include the high-concept drama Arcadia, a co-production with Dutch TV group Big Blue, which is set in a near-future world where one’s social status is determined by an algorithmic Citizen Score designed to ensure social compliance.
Helen Perquy,...
Banijay Benelux, which produces such local series as hit soap opera Familie, will fold jonnydepony into its scripted operations.
Set up by Philippe De Schepper in 2015, jonnydepony specializes in high-end drama series, often set up as European co-productions. Recent successes include Finnish-Belgian crime series Transport from Finnish showrunner Auli Mantila, which looks at the underground world of illegal horse smuggling; and the terrorist thriller Blackout, which imagines an attack on a nuclear power plant that plunges all of Belgium into darkness.
Upcoming projects include the high-concept drama Arcadia, a co-production with Dutch TV group Big Blue, which is set in a near-future world where one’s social status is determined by an algorithmic Citizen Score designed to ensure social compliance.
Helen Perquy,...
- 1/19/2023
- by Scott Roxborough
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Recent international series include ’Black-out,’ ’Transport’ and ‘Arcadia’
Banijay Benelux has taken a majority stake in Belgian scripted production company, jonnydepony.
Jonnydepony specialises in high-end international drama co-productions such as crime thriller Black-out, which was distributed to eight countries, thriller Transport which played in international competition at Series Mania, and dystopian drama Arcadia, soon air on Vrt, Kro-ncrv and Wdr/Swr.
The company is led by Helen Perquy and Philippe De Schepper.
Banijay Benelux is home to several creative content producers – EndemolShine Nederland, SimpelZodiak, Nl Film, Tvbv, Scenery, EndemolShine Scripted, Southfields, Topkapi, Posh Productions, jonnydepony and Banijay Belgium.
It is part of production giant Banijay,...
Banijay Benelux has taken a majority stake in Belgian scripted production company, jonnydepony.
Jonnydepony specialises in high-end international drama co-productions such as crime thriller Black-out, which was distributed to eight countries, thriller Transport which played in international competition at Series Mania, and dystopian drama Arcadia, soon air on Vrt, Kro-ncrv and Wdr/Swr.
The company is led by Helen Perquy and Philippe De Schepper.
Banijay Benelux is home to several creative content producers – EndemolShine Nederland, SimpelZodiak, Nl Film, Tvbv, Scenery, EndemolShine Scripted, Southfields, Topkapi, Posh Productions, jonnydepony and Banijay Belgium.
It is part of production giant Banijay,...
- 1/19/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Recent international series include ’Black-out,’ ’Transport’ and ‘Arcadia’
Banijay Benelux has taken a majority stake in Belgian scripted production company, jonnydepony.
Jonnydepony specialises in high-end international drama co-productions such as crime thriller Black-out, which was distributed to eight countries, thriller Transport which played in international competition at Series Mania, and dystopian drama Arcadia, soon air on Vrt, Kro-ncrv and Wdr/Swr.
The company is led by Helen Perquy and Philippe De Schepper.
Banijay Benelux is home to several creative content producers – EndemolShine Nederland, SimpelZodiak, Nl Film, Tvbv, Scenery, EndemolShine Scripted, Southfields, Topkapi, Posh Productions, jonnydepony and Banijay Belgium.
It is part of production giant Banijay,...
Banijay Benelux has taken a majority stake in Belgian scripted production company, jonnydepony.
Jonnydepony specialises in high-end international drama co-productions such as crime thriller Black-out, which was distributed to eight countries, thriller Transport which played in international competition at Series Mania, and dystopian drama Arcadia, soon air on Vrt, Kro-ncrv and Wdr/Swr.
The company is led by Helen Perquy and Philippe De Schepper.
Banijay Benelux is home to several creative content producers – EndemolShine Nederland, SimpelZodiak, Nl Film, Tvbv, Scenery, EndemolShine Scripted, Southfields, Topkapi, Posh Productions, jonnydepony and Banijay Belgium.
It is part of production giant Banijay,...
- 1/19/2023
- by Tim Dams
- ScreenDaily
Banijay Benelux has acquired a majority stake in the Belgian production company, jonnydepony as it seeks to expand its footprint in the scripted space.
Jonnydepony will sit alongside Banijay Belgium, which is behind the successful soap opera, “Familie.” Founded in 2015 by Philippe De Schepper, jonnydepony is an independent production label whose credits include premium series such as “Black-out,” as well as “Transport” which was selected for Series Mania, and “Arcadia,” which will soon premiere on Vrt, among other channels. The company is headed by Helen Perquy and De Schepper, who are both CEO’s and producers.
The acquisition underscores Banijay’s ambition to broaden its drama portfolio and content pipeline. “Jonnydepony has built up a brilliant reputation in Belgium, but also in the Netherlands and Germany, under the leadership of Helen and Philippe,” said Peter Lubbers, CEO Banijay Benelux. “A unique duo with an extremely creative and successful signature, the...
Jonnydepony will sit alongside Banijay Belgium, which is behind the successful soap opera, “Familie.” Founded in 2015 by Philippe De Schepper, jonnydepony is an independent production label whose credits include premium series such as “Black-out,” as well as “Transport” which was selected for Series Mania, and “Arcadia,” which will soon premiere on Vrt, among other channels. The company is headed by Helen Perquy and De Schepper, who are both CEO’s and producers.
The acquisition underscores Banijay’s ambition to broaden its drama portfolio and content pipeline. “Jonnydepony has built up a brilliant reputation in Belgium, but also in the Netherlands and Germany, under the leadership of Helen and Philippe,” said Peter Lubbers, CEO Banijay Benelux. “A unique duo with an extremely creative and successful signature, the...
- 1/19/2023
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Wild Bunch TV has boarded high-concept sci-fi thriller series, “Arcadia” from Belgian production shingle, jonnydepony.
Created by Philippe De Schepper and Bas Adriaensen, “Arcadia” refers to a post-global catastrophe society where its citizens’ rights and entitlements are determined by their scores. Life is good as long as you remain “healthy, focused and efficient.”
Four sisters, Luz, Milly, Alex and Hanna, retain top scores except for Luz. Their father, anxious to save Luz from being expelled to the Outer World, alters her scores but is caught. He is banished from Arcadia and the entire family is placed under surveillance, their scores slashed. The question now is whether they can get their old lives back.
De Schepper was the showrunner-writer for 10-part Flemish-language thriller series “Blackout,” set in Belgium where an act of sabotage plunges the country into darkness. The female prime minister receives an ominous missive: Turn the power back on and your daughter will perish.
Created by Philippe De Schepper and Bas Adriaensen, “Arcadia” refers to a post-global catastrophe society where its citizens’ rights and entitlements are determined by their scores. Life is good as long as you remain “healthy, focused and efficient.”
Four sisters, Luz, Milly, Alex and Hanna, retain top scores except for Luz. Their father, anxious to save Luz from being expelled to the Outer World, alters her scores but is caught. He is banished from Arcadia and the entire family is placed under surveillance, their scores slashed. The question now is whether they can get their old lives back.
De Schepper was the showrunner-writer for 10-part Flemish-language thriller series “Blackout,” set in Belgium where an act of sabotage plunges the country into darkness. The female prime minister receives an ominous missive: Turn the power back on and your daughter will perish.
- 10/17/2022
- by Anna Marie de la Fuente
- Variety Film + TV
“You’re a horse person?” a Belgian stable owner asks Johanna, a young Finnish journalist delving into the discovery of a microchip in a baby’s meat patty at a Helsinki daycare center. Only creator-director Auli Mantila’s own horse affiliations as a qualified farrier may explain in part one of the most singular of entries at this year’s Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize: “Transport.”
This is Scandinavian crime drama, but “ordi-noir,” Mantila told the Nordisk Film & TV Fond newsletter, in that it “happens in broad daylight, involves people with no special talent or trauma, and takes place in locations anyone could just walk in.”
It also addresses a massive but little explored subject, turning on pan-European food fraud which embroils three women: Marianne, a by-the-book bank loans exec forced to money launder earnings of a sinister food import company; an insurance investigator checking the disappearance of a...
This is Scandinavian crime drama, but “ordi-noir,” Mantila told the Nordisk Film & TV Fond newsletter, in that it “happens in broad daylight, involves people with no special talent or trauma, and takes place in locations anyone could just walk in.”
It also addresses a massive but little explored subject, turning on pan-European food fraud which embroils three women: Marianne, a by-the-book bank loans exec forced to money launder earnings of a sinister food import company; an insurance investigator checking the disappearance of a...
- 1/31/2022
- by John Hopewell
- Variety Film + TV
The Berlin Festival’s Finnish Shooting Star 2015 Emmi Parviainen (“Shadow Lines”), seasoned actor Maria Heiskanen (“Everlasting Moments”), Pirkko Hämäläinen (“Devil’s Bride”) and Belgian actor Geert van Rampelberg (“De Infiltrant”) are headlining the eight-part TV show “Transport.” Prix Europa winner Auli Mantila will serve as its showrunner.
Lensing the show is veteran DoP J-p Passi, multi-awarded for the film “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olly Mäki” and second unit DoP on “Chernobyl.”
Veteran producer Miia Haavisto (“Tom of Finland”) and Tia Talli (“Nurses”) of Tekele are producing for Finnish pubcaster Yle. Belgium’s Philippe de Schepper (“Black-Out”) and Jonnydepony’S Helen Perquy, an executive producer on “Tabula Rasa,” are co-producing. Nordic global distributor REinvent Studios picked up the show in February.
Producer Haavisto said “Transport” stands out as a crime drama set in the food trade. “It’s the tale of ordinary people under immense pressure, all of...
Lensing the show is veteran DoP J-p Passi, multi-awarded for the film “The Happiest Day in the Life of Olly Mäki” and second unit DoP on “Chernobyl.”
Veteran producer Miia Haavisto (“Tom of Finland”) and Tia Talli (“Nurses”) of Tekele are producing for Finnish pubcaster Yle. Belgium’s Philippe de Schepper (“Black-Out”) and Jonnydepony’S Helen Perquy, an executive producer on “Tabula Rasa,” are co-producing. Nordic global distributor REinvent Studios picked up the show in February.
Producer Haavisto said “Transport” stands out as a crime drama set in the food trade. “It’s the tale of ordinary people under immense pressure, all of...
- 10/10/2020
- by Annika Pham
- Variety Film + TV
Finland’s Auli Mantila writes and directs.
Rikke Ennis’ REinvent Studios has boarded sales for suspense drama Transport, as Berlinale Series Market wraps up today (Feb 26).
Finland’s Auli Mantila writes and directs. Producers are Miia Haavisto and Tia Talli, of Finland’s Tekele Productions. Haavisto is a seasoned producer who has also worked on films including Miami, Tom Of Finland and Unknown Soldier. Co-producers are Helen Perquy and Philippe de Schepper of Belgium’s jonnydepony.
The 8 x 50’ series will start shooting in September, in Finnish and English. It explores money laundering and food fraud across Europe, particularly involving horse transport,...
Rikke Ennis’ REinvent Studios has boarded sales for suspense drama Transport, as Berlinale Series Market wraps up today (Feb 26).
Finland’s Auli Mantila writes and directs. Producers are Miia Haavisto and Tia Talli, of Finland’s Tekele Productions. Haavisto is a seasoned producer who has also worked on films including Miami, Tom Of Finland and Unknown Soldier. Co-producers are Helen Perquy and Philippe de Schepper of Belgium’s jonnydepony.
The 8 x 50’ series will start shooting in September, in Finnish and English. It explores money laundering and food fraud across Europe, particularly involving horse transport,...
- 2/26/2020
- by 1100142¦Wendy Mitchell¦0¦
- ScreenDaily
The Ace Series Special is running Nov 4-9 in Brussels.
European producers organisation Ace Producers has unveiled the selection of sixteen producers who will participate in its inaugural TV drama-focused initiative, the Ace Series Special, running Nov 4-9 in Brussels.
The programme is aimed at experienced producers who want to create a series division within their film companies and, or deepen their knowledge of developing and producing TV drama series for an international audience. Each participant will attend with a series project in the early stages of development
They include Belgium’s Bart Van Langendonck at Savage Film, who will...
European producers organisation Ace Producers has unveiled the selection of sixteen producers who will participate in its inaugural TV drama-focused initiative, the Ace Series Special, running Nov 4-9 in Brussels.
The programme is aimed at experienced producers who want to create a series division within their film companies and, or deepen their knowledge of developing and producing TV drama series for an international audience. Each participant will attend with a series project in the early stages of development
They include Belgium’s Bart Van Langendonck at Savage Film, who will...
- 9/10/2019
- by Melanie Goodfellow
- ScreenDaily
The first season of ‘Beau Sejour’ was shown on Netflix and set in a hotel.
A host of new Flemish TV series, at script stage and in production, were pitched today at Connext, the Flanders Image industry event in Ghent.
Flemish TV is having a moment thanks to the international success of shows like Tabula Rasa and 13 Commandments. International companies attending Connext to scout new series this year included Netflix, Attraction Distribution, Dynamic Television, Global Screen, Global Series Network, Just Film, Serie Series, Series Mania, Wild Bunch TV and Zdf.
Some of the top pitches were A Good Year,...
A host of new Flemish TV series, at script stage and in production, were pitched today at Connext, the Flanders Image industry event in Ghent.
Flemish TV is having a moment thanks to the international success of shows like Tabula Rasa and 13 Commandments. International companies attending Connext to scout new series this year included Netflix, Attraction Distribution, Dynamic Television, Global Screen, Global Series Network, Just Film, Serie Series, Series Mania, Wild Bunch TV and Zdf.
Some of the top pitches were A Good Year,...
- 10/11/2018
- by Wendy Mitchell
- ScreenDaily
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