Arte: Franco-Icelandic series “Blackport” to be broadcasted end of march, season 2 mentioned
The French-Icelandic series Blackport (8 x 50'), International Grand Prize of Séries Mania in 2021, will be broadcasted on Arte on Thursdays March 23th and 30th in prime time and will also be available on arte.tv from March 16th to May 28th.
This series, which evokes with a dark humor the enrichment of Iceland and a fishing family as well as the corruption which resulted from the establishment of fishing quotas in the 1980s on the island, is a creation of Vesturport, Icelandic theater and film production company, based on real events. Co-produced with British company Turbine Studios, it marks Arte France's first co-production with Icelandic public television, RÚV (Satellifacts, June 15, 2020).
In its financing, the French channel played "an essential role", underlined the co-authors and co-directors Gísli Örn Garðarsson (Ragnarök, Children) and Björn Hlynur Haraldsson (Fortitude, The Witcher), co-founders of the Icelandic artists' collective Vesturport Theater and Film, during a press briefing on the series organized online on February 14 by Arte. This series has also received support from the Media program of Creative Europe, the Nordisk Film & TV Fond and the Icelandic Film Center.
Blackport might release a second season. The RÚV channel “raised this idea with the producers”, confirmed to Satellifacts Arte France, which “awaits their decision” .
Internationally, Blackport will be broadcasted on RTS in Switzerland from February 24, its distributor About Premium Content told Satellifacts. Presold to DR in Denmark, NRK in Norway, SVT in Sweden and YLE in Finland, the series has also been bought by AMC Networks in Spain and Portugal, by the Topic streaming service in the United States and Canada, SBS in Australia and TG4 in Ireland.