Reinvent Yellow Sales Takes Two Nordic Crime Dramas to Mipcom
Reinvent Yellow Sales will shop two Nordic crime dramas to global buyers at Mipcom.
The distributor has added SkyShowtime's The Homicide Unit and Iceland's Fjord to its sales slate for the market, Variety reported on 9 October. Mipcom is the annual television market in Cannes where sellers pitch shows to broadcasters and streamers country by country. A place on the slate puts both series in front of those buyers for the first time under one catalogue.
The Homicide Unit (Riksmord) is an eight-part Swedish series, meaning its story plays out across eight episodes. It was created by Gunnar A. K. Järvstad and takes its cue from a real travelling elite unit. That group supports local police forces on complex murder cases. The drama follows the unit as it moves from town to town to pick apart difficult killings.
Pernilla August leads the cast as chief Ib, joined by Jonas Karlsson, Alexander Abdallah and Nina Zanjani. The series was produced by Warner Bros. International Television Production Sweden. SkyShowtime and TV4 Sweden co-produced, meaning they jointly backed and commissioned the show, alongside regional funds Film i Skåne, Film i Dalarna and Filmpool Nord. It is set to premiere in March 2027.
Fjord is a six-part thriller made in English and Icelandic. It was co-created by Anita Briem and Constantine Paraskevopoulos. Briem stars as Ranna, a woman who follows her fiancé Sveinn, played by Pääru Oja, back to Iceland. Once there, Ranna starts a podcast about a choir teacher who disappeared ten years earlier, and her questions reopen old wounds in a small community.
The show was produced by Iceland's Projects with Belgium's Lunanime for Icelandic streamer Síminn. That makes it an international co-production built for one home service first, with global sales to follow. For viewers, that kind of deal is what decides which channel or streamer shows a series outside its home country. Any agreements struck at Mipcom would decide where else Fjord is seen, and when.
What makes this pairing stand out is perspective. One story investigates from inside the system, with rank and resources. The other investigates from outside, with a microphone and an outsider's eye. Buyers in Cannes now get to choose between them, or take both.
