From true crime shows to a new dark comedy from HBO, there’s a great range of new titles coming to streaming this week.
It’s Monday again, and for most American adults that means the resumption of the work week. It’s never a great feeling to be facing yet another Monday, though at least fans of new shows like “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” have a brand-new episode to look forward to this week.
If your favorite title is still on hiatus thanks to the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes, or if you’re simply out of shows and movies on your watchlist, this is the list for you. The Streamable has compiled an index of new titles coming to various streaming services every day this week, which should hopefully give you something to look forward to when your work day is done!
Monday, Feb. 26 ‘The Man Who Played with Fire’ Premiere | Max,...
It’s Monday again, and for most American adults that means the resumption of the work week. It’s never a great feeling to be facing yet another Monday, though at least fans of new shows like “The Walking Dead: The Ones Who Live” have a brand-new episode to look forward to this week.
If your favorite title is still on hiatus thanks to the WGA/SAG-AFTRA strikes, or if you’re simply out of shows and movies on your watchlist, this is the list for you. The Streamable has compiled an index of new titles coming to various streaming services every day this week, which should hopefully give you something to look forward to when your work day is done!
Monday, Feb. 26 ‘The Man Who Played with Fire’ Premiere | Max,...
- 2/26/2024
- by David Satin
- The Streamable
“The Fragile Colossus,” “Ten Pound Poms” and “The Seed” ruled the roost at this year’s Monte-Carlo Television Festival, with the three programs collecting two prizes each at a small-screen showcase that ran June 16 – 20 in the Monaco capital.
Produced by Make It Happen Studio and Shoot Again Productions in partnership with TF1 France, telefilm “The Fragile Colossus” took home Monte-Carlo’s Golden Nymph for best film and the special jury prize. The French drama follows a one-time rugby star (played by soccer player-turned-actor Eric Cantona) confronting his history as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, and is based on the life and memoires of rugbyman Sébastien Boueilh.
Winner of Nymphs for best series and best actor for star Warren Brown, “Ten Pound Poms” tracks a group of newly arrived Brits looking to build a better life in 1950s Australia. The six-part series was written by Danny Brocklehurst and produced by...
Produced by Make It Happen Studio and Shoot Again Productions in partnership with TF1 France, telefilm “The Fragile Colossus” took home Monte-Carlo’s Golden Nymph for best film and the special jury prize. The French drama follows a one-time rugby star (played by soccer player-turned-actor Eric Cantona) confronting his history as a victim of childhood sexual abuse, and is based on the life and memoires of rugbyman Sébastien Boueilh.
Winner of Nymphs for best series and best actor for star Warren Brown, “Ten Pound Poms” tracks a group of newly arrived Brits looking to build a better life in 1950s Australia. The six-part series was written by Danny Brocklehurst and produced by...
- 6/20/2023
- by Ben Croll
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Hulu’s WeWork director Jed Rothstein is forging landmark Sky documentary Once Upon a Time in Londongrad, exploring 14 mysterious deaths in the UK with alleged connections to Russia over two decades. Scroll down for the trailer.
Oscar-winning production outfit Rise Films is behind the show in association with in association with Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group, BuzzFeed Studios and Concordia Studio.
Helmed by investigative reporter Heidi Blake, the doc series is incredibly timely and will examine how Vladimir Putin’s two decades in power have made the UK reliant on Russian money and thereby led to missed opportunities to contain the Kremlin.
The deaths, which include high-profiles such as Alexander Litvinenko, will be explored in connection with the hidden underworld of Russian exiles in London, coming as high-profile Russians living in the UK such as former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich face sanctions. The issue has...
Oscar-winning production outfit Rise Films is behind the show in association with in association with Universal International Studios, a division of Universal Studio Group, BuzzFeed Studios and Concordia Studio.
Helmed by investigative reporter Heidi Blake, the doc series is incredibly timely and will examine how Vladimir Putin’s two decades in power have made the UK reliant on Russian money and thereby led to missed opportunities to contain the Kremlin.
The deaths, which include high-profiles such as Alexander Litvinenko, will be explored in connection with the hidden underworld of Russian exiles in London, coming as high-profile Russians living in the UK such as former Chelsea owner Roman Abramovich face sanctions. The issue has...
- 5/16/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
Sky has unveiled one of its biggest factual slates yet, greenlighting six shows including documentaries on the assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and the Italian 1990 football World Cup, and a royal factual drama told through the eyes of Queen Victoria’s granddaughters.
The shows will air across Sky Documentaries, Sky Crime, Sky Nature and Sky History over the next year and come as the Comcast-owned pay-tv giant prepares for a swanky London do tomorrow night, at which they will be presented.
Leading the slate is The Assassination of Olof Palme, a thriller-esque four-part series set in the Scandi Noir world of Cold War Sweden when the Prime Minister was shot in 1986 on the snowy streets of Stockholm. What followed was a 36-year search for the killer, which consumed many including the late Girl With the Dragon Tattoo author Stieg Larsson.
Next is three-parter Italia’ 90 as Sky doubles down on sports docs,...
The shows will air across Sky Documentaries, Sky Crime, Sky Nature and Sky History over the next year and come as the Comcast-owned pay-tv giant prepares for a swanky London do tomorrow night, at which they will be presented.
Leading the slate is The Assassination of Olof Palme, a thriller-esque four-part series set in the Scandi Noir world of Cold War Sweden when the Prime Minister was shot in 1986 on the snowy streets of Stockholm. What followed was a 36-year search for the killer, which consumed many including the late Girl With the Dragon Tattoo author Stieg Larsson.
Next is three-parter Italia’ 90 as Sky doubles down on sports docs,...
- 5/16/2022
- by Max Goldbart
- Deadline Film + TV
"His story doesn't add up." Netflix has revealed an official trailer for a new true crime series called The Unlikely Murderer from Sweden, about the infamous 1986 assassination of the Swedish prime minister. This will be available to watch on Netflix starting in November, including in the US for anyone curious to learn more about this event. The series focuses on a man named Stig Engström, who passed away in the year 2000. Nearly 20 years later, independent investigators and the police eventually named Engström as the lead suspect, but of course they can't do anything else now that he is dead. This series dramatizes how a man claiming to be a witness at the assassination of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme may have gotten away with murder. Engström managed to elude justice right up to his death with a combination of audacity, luck, and a perplexed police force. Starring Robert Gustafsson as Stig Engström,...
- 10/8/2021
- by Alex Billington
- firstshowing.net
Netflix has ordered “The Unlikely Murderer,” a Swedish limited series based on Thomas Pettersson’s eponymous 2018 award-winning book.
The five-part drama series is a fictional interpretation of how Stig Engström, the graphic designer named as the suspected murderer of Sweden’s prime minister Olof Palme, managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck and a perplexed police force.
Engström’s murder was not planned well, he did everything wrong from the beginning and almost no one believed his lies about what he actually did during that fateful night in 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden. The series will question how police could have let the suspect get away, despite tracking him.
The series is written by Wilhelm Behrman and Niklas Rockström. Charlotte Brändström (“The Witcher”) is the conceptual director and will helm the first two episodes of the show.
The Swedish-language series will be produced by Flx,...
The five-part drama series is a fictional interpretation of how Stig Engström, the graphic designer named as the suspected murderer of Sweden’s prime minister Olof Palme, managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck and a perplexed police force.
Engström’s murder was not planned well, he did everything wrong from the beginning and almost no one believed his lies about what he actually did during that fateful night in 1986 in Stockholm, Sweden. The series will question how police could have let the suspect get away, despite tracking him.
The series is written by Wilhelm Behrman and Niklas Rockström. Charlotte Brändström (“The Witcher”) is the conceptual director and will helm the first two episodes of the show.
The Swedish-language series will be produced by Flx,...
- 12/3/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Netflix has greenlit a five-part Swedish-language series on Stig Engström, the man who was named as the probable murderer of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
The Unlikely Murderer is made by Swedish producer Flx — which is behind Netflix series Quicksand and Love & Anarchy — and stars Robert Gustafsson as Engström. The part-fictionalized story is based on a 2018 book by Thomas Pettersson.
Following the assassination of Palme in 1986, Engström managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck, and a perplexed police force.
Other cast includes Eva Melander, Mikael Persbrandt and Peter Andersson. Joel Spira, Emil Almén, Shanti Roney, Torkel Petterson, Henrik Norlén, Lia Boysen, Magnus Krepper, Björn Bengtsson, Peter Viitanen, and Cilla Thorell also feature.
Wilhelm Behrman and Niklas Rockström are the writers, while Charlotte Brändström is the conceptual director. Simon Kaijser also directs. The executive producer is Pontus Edgren, while Fatima Varhos...
The Unlikely Murderer is made by Swedish producer Flx — which is behind Netflix series Quicksand and Love & Anarchy — and stars Robert Gustafsson as Engström. The part-fictionalized story is based on a 2018 book by Thomas Pettersson.
Following the assassination of Palme in 1986, Engström managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck, and a perplexed police force.
Other cast includes Eva Melander, Mikael Persbrandt and Peter Andersson. Joel Spira, Emil Almén, Shanti Roney, Torkel Petterson, Henrik Norlén, Lia Boysen, Magnus Krepper, Björn Bengtsson, Peter Viitanen, and Cilla Thorell also feature.
Wilhelm Behrman and Niklas Rockström are the writers, while Charlotte Brändström is the conceptual director. Simon Kaijser also directs. The executive producer is Pontus Edgren, while Fatima Varhos...
- 12/3/2020
- by Jake Kanter
- Deadline Film + TV
Netflix has greenlit a five-part limited series, The Unlikely Murderer, based on the 2018 book by Thomas Pettersson about the infamous, and still unsolved, 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
Palme’s murder is Sweden’s version of the JFK assassination, with dozens of competing conspiracy theories as to who killed him and if nefarious forces were behind the murder. Pettersson’s book looks at Stig Engström, a graphic designer who many consider the prime suspect in the killing but who eluded justice up to his death.
Swedish actor and comedian Robert Gustafsson (The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out ...
Palme’s murder is Sweden’s version of the JFK assassination, with dozens of competing conspiracy theories as to who killed him and if nefarious forces were behind the murder. Pettersson’s book looks at Stig Engström, a graphic designer who many consider the prime suspect in the killing but who eluded justice up to his death.
Swedish actor and comedian Robert Gustafsson (The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out ...
- 12/3/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Film + TV
Netflix has greenlit a five-part limited series, The Unlikely Murderer, based on the 2018 book by Thomas Pettersson about the infamous, and still unsolved, 1986 murder of Swedish prime minister Olof Palme.
Palme’s murder is Sweden’s version of the JFK assassination, with dozens of competing conspiracy theories as to who killed him and if nefarious forces were behind the murder. Pettersson’s book looks at Stig Engström, a graphic designer who many consider the prime suspect in the killing but who eluded justice up to his death.
Swedish actor and comedian Robert Gustafsson (The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out ...
Palme’s murder is Sweden’s version of the JFK assassination, with dozens of competing conspiracy theories as to who killed him and if nefarious forces were behind the murder. Pettersson’s book looks at Stig Engström, a graphic designer who many consider the prime suspect in the killing but who eluded justice up to his death.
Swedish actor and comedian Robert Gustafsson (The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out ...
- 12/3/2020
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
AMC Networks’ Sundance Now has acquired Schiaffino Musarra’s Swedish crime comedy series “We Got This” from Banijay Rights for the U.S., Canada and the U.K.
The show follows George English (Musarra), a recently jobless American man living in Sweden who sets off to solve the 30-year-old murder of the former prime minister Olof Palme, in hopes that the 50 million Swedish crown ($5 million) reward can pay off his insurmountable tax bill. English teams with his closest friend, a wacky conspiracy theorist and former police officer, as he ventures into a web of intrigue.
Created and co-written by Musarra, the six-part dark comedy series is set against the backdrop of the true story of Palme’s assassination in 1986. Until recently, a reward was being offered by Swedish authorities, given Palme was hailed a national hero for his humanism. Ironically, “We Got This” finished airing in Sweden just days before...
The show follows George English (Musarra), a recently jobless American man living in Sweden who sets off to solve the 30-year-old murder of the former prime minister Olof Palme, in hopes that the 50 million Swedish crown ($5 million) reward can pay off his insurmountable tax bill. English teams with his closest friend, a wacky conspiracy theorist and former police officer, as he ventures into a web of intrigue.
Created and co-written by Musarra, the six-part dark comedy series is set against the backdrop of the true story of Palme’s assassination in 1986. Until recently, a reward was being offered by Swedish authorities, given Palme was hailed a national hero for his humanism. Ironically, “We Got This” finished airing in Sweden just days before...
- 6/18/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
An American actor-turned-screenwriter living in Sweden, Schiaffino Musarra dared to tackle his adoptive country’s “greatest tragedy and biggest embarrassment” in his crime comedy “We Got This,” which bowed May 3 on Swedish broadcaster Svt.
The show, which is repped by Banijay Rights, follows George English (Musarra), a recently jobless American man living in Sweden who sets off to solve the 30-year-old murder of the former prime minister Olof Palme, in hopes that the 50 million Swedish Crown ($5 million) reward can pay off his insurmountable tax bill. English teams with his closest friend, a whacky conspiracy theorist and former police officer, as he ventures into a web of intrigue.
“We Got This” scooped the best pitch prize at last year’s Series Mania festival in France and went into production in record time after its win, with Patrik Eklund directing and a strong cast including Alexander Karim (“The Lawyer”), Olle Sarri (“Apan...
The show, which is repped by Banijay Rights, follows George English (Musarra), a recently jobless American man living in Sweden who sets off to solve the 30-year-old murder of the former prime minister Olof Palme, in hopes that the 50 million Swedish Crown ($5 million) reward can pay off his insurmountable tax bill. English teams with his closest friend, a whacky conspiracy theorist and former police officer, as he ventures into a web of intrigue.
“We Got This” scooped the best pitch prize at last year’s Series Mania festival in France and went into production in record time after its win, with Patrik Eklund directing and a strong cast including Alexander Karim (“The Lawyer”), Olle Sarri (“Apan...
- 5/12/2020
- by Elsa Keslassy
- Variety Film + TV
Author Stieg Larsson’s legacy, for Americans at least, stops at his contribution to the crime-novel industry, with the posthumously-published Millennium trilogy series that sparked a large handful of adaptations and doesn’t seem to be stopping soon. But a new Swedish-language documentary about the author, Henrik Georggson’s “Stieg Larsson: The Man Who Played With Fire,” seeks to place the late literary sensation and his works within the context of the writing that occupied the better part of Larsson’s life: the documentation of Nazis and the far-right in Europe.
Colleagues of Larsson’s take turns leading us through their time working with him, and you may or may not be surprised that many (or most) of them are women: crime reporter Ewa Tures, reporter Anna-Lena Lodenius, Expo magazine co-founders Jennie K Larsson and Emmy, and his life companion Eva Gabriellson among them. Whether male or female, however, all describe a driven,...
Colleagues of Larsson’s take turns leading us through their time working with him, and you may or may not be surprised that many (or most) of them are women: crime reporter Ewa Tures, reporter Anna-Lena Lodenius, Expo magazine co-founders Jennie K Larsson and Emmy, and his life companion Eva Gabriellson among them. Whether male or female, however, all describe a driven,...
- 1/26/2019
- by April Wolfe
- The Wrap
Review By Peter Belsito
Stockholm was the best film I saw at the recent Whistler Film Festival in British Columbia.
Many of us are familiar with the term “Stockholm Syndrome”, a phenomenon where imprisoned or kidnapped hostages start to identify emotionally or politically with their captors. The Patty Hearst story is probably one of its most famous examples.
In the most legendary and spectacular case of “Stockholm Syndrome” — the 1974 Patty Hearst affair, the kidnap victim swung all the way over to the other side. Yet that was far from typical. Patty, the 20-year-old heiress who wedded herself to the “revolutionary” Symbionese Liberation Army, was photographed sporting a beret and a born-again moniker (Tania!) and a machine gun.
This is Not about that incident at all.
This film is about the original story from which that the term takes its name. And it is far more complex and interesting than the title might suggest.
Stockholm was the best film I saw at the recent Whistler Film Festival in British Columbia.
Many of us are familiar with the term “Stockholm Syndrome”, a phenomenon where imprisoned or kidnapped hostages start to identify emotionally or politically with their captors. The Patty Hearst story is probably one of its most famous examples.
In the most legendary and spectacular case of “Stockholm Syndrome” — the 1974 Patty Hearst affair, the kidnap victim swung all the way over to the other side. Yet that was far from typical. Patty, the 20-year-old heiress who wedded herself to the “revolutionary” Symbionese Liberation Army, was photographed sporting a beret and a born-again moniker (Tania!) and a machine gun.
This is Not about that incident at all.
This film is about the original story from which that the term takes its name. And it is far more complex and interesting than the title might suggest.
- 12/21/2018
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
Lille France — Bigger and better. That was the goal for this year’s edition of the Series Mania Co-Pro Pitching Sessions, the first since the festival moved from Paris to Lille. A prize of $50,000 was on the line for the winning series, awarded to the American-created, Swedish-made dramedy “We Got This!” the last project to pitch on the day.
“I decided to build a story about a misunderstood creature,” American series creator Schiaffino Musarra said during his pitch, one of the lightest of the day: “An ignorant and impulsive American. He is heavy, bearded and quite handsome.”
It’s worth pointing out that Musarra plays the lead character in the series.
“Interestingly, I had been pitching this as an idea on a piece of paper for about five years. Nobody wanted to do it,” he explained of the series inauspicious beginnings.
“Comedy is notoriously difficult to prove on a piece of paper,...
“I decided to build a story about a misunderstood creature,” American series creator Schiaffino Musarra said during his pitch, one of the lightest of the day: “An ignorant and impulsive American. He is heavy, bearded and quite handsome.”
It’s worth pointing out that Musarra plays the lead character in the series.
“Interestingly, I had been pitching this as an idea on a piece of paper for about five years. Nobody wanted to do it,” he explained of the series inauspicious beginnings.
“Comedy is notoriously difficult to prove on a piece of paper,...
- 5/2/2018
- by Jamie Lang
- Variety Film + TV
Stockholm Syndrome is a phenomenon we’re all familiar with — at least, in the abstract. In a hostage situation, some ordinary folks will start to sympathize and identify with the people holding them hostage; it’s a survival technique that carries a weird undercurrent of transgression, as if they secretly wanted to be their captors. In the most legendary and spectacular case of Stockholm Syndrome — the Patty Hearst affair, in 1974 — the kidnap victim swung all the way over to the other side. Yet that was far from typical. Patty, the 20-year-old heiress who wedded herself to the “revolutionary” Symbionese Liberation Army, sporting a beret and a born-again moniker (Tania!) and a machine gun, was more like a case of Stockholm Syndrome to the fifth power.
Far more characteristic is the bank robbery and six-day hostage crisis that the syndrome was originally named for. It took place in 1973, and “Stockholm” offers a loose,...
Far more characteristic is the bank robbery and six-day hostage crisis that the syndrome was originally named for. It took place in 1973, and “Stockholm” offers a loose,...
- 4/21/2018
- by Owen Gleiberman
- Variety Film + TV
Mubi is showing Eloy Domínguez Serén's No Cow on the Ice (2015) from May 23 - June 23, 2017 in most countries around the world in collaboration with L.A. Ola's showcase of new independent cinema from Spain.When I arrived to Sweden in the summer of 2012, I knew relatively little about this country. My perception of this place was primarily based on a historical, though not very precise, imaginary which was defined by some of the main milestones of Swedish politics and culture during the 20th century: ranging from the folkhemmet promoted by the Social Democratic governments of Tage Erlander and Olof Palme, through the unique political, social and emotional universe of Astrid Lindgren, to the dramatic complexity and existential anguish of Ingmar Bergman’s characters.During my first months in Stockholm (which were exciting and inspiring in many ways, but also odd and puzzling in others) I found in literature a...
- 6/3/2017
- MUBI
★★☆☆☆ UK audiences have acquired quite the taste for Scandinavian crime drama, with shows like The Killing, Borgen and Wallander all received with open arms. However, despite this Scandi-crime obsession, the name 'Roland Hassel' still remains unknown - and judging by Måns Månsson's arduous debut, it's going to stay that way. A popular 1980s television detective, Hassel now lives on in Månsson's new quasi-docudrama, but audiences expecting a gloomy suspense thriller should probably take a step back; Hassel - Privatspanarna (2012) has very little in common with films like Insomnia or The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo.
An example of form surpassing function, this stripped-back hybrid piece sees the now retired Roland Hassel (played by the original Hassel - Lars-Erik Berenett) attempting to uncover the identity of the assassin who murdered real-life former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme (Roland Eriksson). Without access to any formal police records, Hassel must gather what...
An example of form surpassing function, this stripped-back hybrid piece sees the now retired Roland Hassel (played by the original Hassel - Lars-Erik Berenett) attempting to uncover the identity of the assassin who murdered real-life former Swedish prime minister Olof Palme (Roland Eriksson). Without access to any formal police records, Hassel must gather what...
- 6/24/2013
- by CineVue UK
- CineVue
As gritty as its predecessor, this second Stieg Larsson adaptation takes us deeper into the dark heart of Sweden
The mammoth popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, an epic exposé of Scandinavian corruption, is not the sudden, unexpected event it appears to be. The fuse was lit long ago. In 1961, Kathleen Nott, the British novelist, public intellectual and frequent contributor to the Observer, wrote an influential book on Sweden called A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, representing the country as a colourless, complacent, over-organised state run on rational lines that had robbed people of personal identity. Her view was as widely shared as it was wide of the mark. Because beneath the orderly surface that had been created since the Social Democrats came to power in the early 30s, there had always been a seething sense of injustice, of discontent and paranoia, ready to erupt at some time in the future.
The mammoth popularity of Stieg Larsson's Millennium trilogy, an epic exposé of Scandinavian corruption, is not the sudden, unexpected event it appears to be. The fuse was lit long ago. In 1961, Kathleen Nott, the British novelist, public intellectual and frequent contributor to the Observer, wrote an influential book on Sweden called A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, representing the country as a colourless, complacent, over-organised state run on rational lines that had robbed people of personal identity. Her view was as widely shared as it was wide of the mark. Because beneath the orderly surface that had been created since the Social Democrats came to power in the early 30s, there had always been a seething sense of injustice, of discontent and paranoia, ready to erupt at some time in the future.
- 8/28/2010
- by Philip French
- The Guardian - Film News
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