Global Breakouts: The Best Of 2023 So Far
19.09.2023 - 13:01
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It’s been six months since Deadline launched our fortnightly Global Breakouts strand, in which we shine a spotlight on the TV shows and films killing it in their local territories. We therefore thought it high time that we remind you of some of the prospective hits we’ve profiled over the past half-year. From a Sopranos-esque Israeli drama to a buzzy French action movie to the next big Dutch format, scroll on for the best of the 2023 Breakouts.
Our first Scandi drama of what we are sure will be many came from Denmark, where young filmmaker Kasper Møller Rask had followed the Coen Brothers’ lead by forging a crime series, with just a hint of irreverence, for local network DR. “I wanted to make a young person’s crime show for my 15-year-old self,” Rask told Deadline, before spotlighting how his show was anything but the next Stranger Things.
Neighbours may have felt like the only Australian TV drama worth reading about last year but we wanted to go a bit higher end with our first series from the land of Oz. In stepped Last King of the Cross for Paramount+ Australia, a Godfather-esque crime thriller that has since sold to a wealth of territories and been recommissioned. “This was a real swing for the fences,” said EP Mark Fennessy of the Tim Roth-starrer. “It was never supposed to be ‘just another Australian drama’ and the intent was there from the beginning.”
We visited The Netherlands, home of The Traitors and countless other hit unscripted shows, for our first format, Don’t Stop the Music. Inspired by hit FX comedy Dave, the show taps into buyers’ growing penchant for nostalgia formats, cleverly manipulating the sub-genre to both take advantage of one generation’s nostalgic memories while creating them for a younger
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