Perhaps inspired by its ever-intriguing Walter Presents strand, Channel 4’s new thriller Before We Die is based on a Swedish original called Innan vi dör (“before we die” in Swedish).
Amazon Steps Up Scripted Production in Italy With ‘Bad Guy’ and ‘Prisma’ Variety 2 days ago
Amazon Prime Video is stepping up scripted production in Italy with green lights for two new original series: dark Mafia comedy “The Bad Guy,” and young adult coming-of-age drama “Prisma,” which is about twin brothers who go against gender norms in different ways.
The new Italian Amazon Original skeins were announced at a Prime Video Presents Italy 2021 showcase event held in Rome, but attended online by journalists.
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With these new shows, Amazon is reaching a presence in Italy comparable to Netflix in terms of volume of original productions.
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Those of us of a certain vintage will see the title of this latest offering from Walter Presents and think of a Gary Numan album from 1979. Instead, this is an Eastern European crime drama set across three cities – Odessa in Ukraine, Prague in the Czech Republic and Warsaw in Poland. There are some obvious comparisons to ‘The Team’ (Germany, Denmark and Belgium) and ‘The Bridge’ (Sweden and Denmark), given the multiple country setting, but in truth this isn’t in the same league as ‘The Bridge’.
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