David Farnor | On 16, Jan 2019

Walter Presents will Ride Upon the Storm this January, with the new series from the creator of Borgen swooping onto UK screens.

The streaming channel, which is dedicated to the best TV shows from around the world, scooped the rights to the drama last year. Written by Adam Price, the hotly anticipated drama from Denmark follows a family of priests, as they each choose their path to live a meaningful life. On the face of it, the family are the epitome of respectability, but events soon unfold leaving the group in crisis.

Exploring the themes of good and evil through the intimate lens of a family drama, it stars Lars Mikkelsen (House of Cards, The Killing) and is produced by DR Drama in cooperation with ARTE France and SAM le Français.

It recently won the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize 2018 at the Gӧteborg Film Festival and previously picked up the TV Critics Award and the Buyers Coup de Coeur Award at the MipDrama Screenings. That was more than enough to put it on Walter Iuzzolino’s radar, and the curator and co-founded of Walter Presents promptly purchased the UK rights to the show – including Season 1 and 2.

Now, Borgen fans won’t have to wait much longer for the series to arrive, with Season 1 premiering on Sunday 27th January at 11pm on Channel 4 – with the whole box set released on Walter Presents all at once.

 

Ride Upon the Storm: Walter Presents scoops Borgen creator’s new series

2nd May 2018

Walter Presents has scooped the rights to the new series from the creator of Borgen.

Ride Upon the Storm, written by Adam Price, is the hotly anticipated drama from Denmark, following a family of priests, as they each choose their path to live a meaningful life. On the face of it, the family are the epitome of respectability, but events soon unfold leaving the group in crisis.

Exploring the themes of good and evil through the intimate lens of a family drama, it stars Lars Mikkelsen (House of Cards, The Killing) and is produced by DR Drama in cooperation with ARTE France and SAM le Français.

It recently won the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize 2018 at the Gӧteborg Film Festival and previously picked up the TV Critics Award and the Buyers Coup de Coeur Award at the MipDrama Screenings. That was more than enough to put it on Walter Iuzzolino’s radar, and the curator and co-founded of the foreign-language TV streaming service has wasted no time in buying the UK rights to the show.

The deal includes Season 1 and 2, covering 20 episodes in total.

Price says: “With Borgen we were amazed and thrilled to see that a Danish show about politics could actually travel the world and ended up being broadcast m on five continents. After Borgen, I wanted to work on a story about something that is affecting most of our lives almost on a daily basis and that is even more “political” than politics: Religion. Religion fascinates me, as it is in essence intangible and difficult to grasp; we cannot prove or disprove the existence of God, and yet religion guides or even controls millions of people’s lives all over the world. So from politics to God – or faith, you could say. But faith should also be understood as something above religion, the driving force in our lives. Not only faith in God, but also our faith in love, in each other in ourselves. Ride Upon the Storm is in essence a character-based drama about a family. About parenthood and children and about just how much we are willing to do when we are torn between what we believe and what we love. We managed to get the Borgen production team together for this new show and a fantastic cast headed by the great Lars Mikkelsen – already a household name in many international series from House of Cards to Sherlock Holmes. We are very pleased to be onboard Walter Presents and Channel 4 alongside many of the best new high quality dramas from Scandinavia.”

Iuzzolino adds: “Ride Upon the Storm completely resets the standards for scripted excellence around the world – proving yet again, that when it comes to extraordinary storytelling, Danish drama keeps reinventing itself, refusing to be boxed into the Scandi detective corner and defying categorisation. A piece of this stature comes on the market only every ten years, it really is that good and I’m m absolutely delighted to have secured it for UK audiences.”

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