Skoop Media launches Dutch Noir crime label at Mipcom
Amsterdam distributor Skoop Media has launched Dutch Noir, a new international label to sell premium Dutch crime drama abroad.
The banner is bowing at Mipcom, the international television market in Cannes where broadcasters and streamers buy new shows, with a starting slate of 17 titles from six producers, according to Variety.
Dutch Noir is built to package Dutch crime for foreign buyers in one place. The range covers organised-crime drama, psychological thrillers, urban crime and heist series. Four of the launch titles are Videoland Originals, meaning they were first made for the Dutch streamer Videoland.
At the centre is the world of “Mocro Maffia.” The Amsterdam drug-world drama runs to six seasons with several spin-offs, meaning new series built from its characters and storylines. Skoop says it has been licensed across German and French-speaking Europe, Eastern Europe, Scandinavia, Belgium, Latin America and Japan.
The Mipcom slate is led by Videoland Original “Narcostad.” It was created by Nasrdin Dchar, the lead actor from “Mocro Maffia,” and follows teenagers pulled into Rotterdam’s drug economy. It is pitched as the next show from the same creative stable.
Three more titles come from Amsterdam-based Fiction Valley, the company behind “Mocro Maffia.” They include the second season of “Tonnano,” a “Mocro Maffia” spin-off, and the fourth and final season of “Sleepers.” The group is completed by “Rippers,” a short-form heist thriller made in a shorter-episode format.
“Mocro Maffia” was created by Achmed Akkabi. Skoop, which is based in Amsterdam, has previously sold Dutch crime abroad, including a deal that took “Evilside” and “Sleepers” to Walter Presents for the U.K., Ireland, the U.S., Canada and Australia.
What makes this stand out is the bundling. Instead of selling one Dutch thriller at a time, Skoop now has a single crime shelf for international buyers to browse.
