David Sundin’s immeasurably popular The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read is No. 1 also on week 12’s official Swedish bestseller list for children’s books.

Lisbet lives with her granny the Samba King and the stern pirate cat Sixten in an ordinary house on an ordinary street. But beneath the ordinary surface, there’s more to the story: the Samba King is a former secret agent that holds the world record in just about anything, if you ask her. Lisbet loves living with her granny – it’s a riot! But sometimes the Samba King gets to be a bit too much even for Lisbet, making her think that it would be nice to have someone around that’s more like herself. Then one day a postcard arrives, welcoming Lisbet to school. She’ll finally start first grade.

The news has the Samba King acting as if someone has just died: School means the end of summers as they know them and granny fears the dull classes will take Lisbet’s imagination away forever, making her just like everyone else. Together they decide to do as many crazy antics as possible during this last summer of freedom. Secretly, though, Lisbet is rather excited about starting school and finally making a friend of her own…

Lisbet and the Samba King and The School of Hard Knocks are the two first installments in the hilarious, exuberant and norm-creative chapter book series that asks the question: “Do you have the right to be you – even if that means just being ordinary?”

Hear the creators Oskar Söderlund, Jens Lapidus, Jesper Ganslandt and actor Evin Ahmad discuss the anticipated Netflix series Snabba Cash in this exclusive interview.

Snabba Cash premieres on Netflix April 7.

The eight-part Norwegian drama series Nach (After Party) is co-created by Anne Bjørnstad, Head of Drama at Rubicon, Ernst De Geer and Mads Stegger. De Geer and Stegger are the series’ writers and De Geer is also directing together with Fanny Ovesen.

Nach follows university dropout Selma. After being thrown out of her share house, Selma moves in with her half-sister Elin and her boyfriend August, only to find herself growing increasingly caught up in her feelings for August. The drama unravels during eight very different after parties throughout the summer.

The coming-of-age drama Nach is produced by Banijay-owned scripted label Rubicon and will premiere on Discovery+ in the Nordics March 25.

Danish screenwriter Maja Jul Larsen graduated from Denmark’s National Film School in 2007 and has since then made a rapid rise in the film and TV industry. She has worked on some of the biggest Danish TV dramas, including the international sensations Borgen, Follow the Money and The Legacy.

In 2020 Jul Larsen made her debut as creator and head-writer with the acclaimed and awarded Cry Wolf. The gripping family drama was an immediate viewer ratings hit, was lauded in the Scandinavian press and is now sold to over 40 territories. Cry Wolf was selected in competition at Series Mania, won a Golden Eye for ‘Best Drama’ at the Zurich Film Festival and won five awards at the Danish Film Awards including ‘Best TV Series.’ Jul Larsen also emerged as the winner of the Nordisk Film & TV Fond Prize for her “outstanding writing of a Nordic drama series.”

Currently, Jul Larsen is working on Borgen season 4 for DR and Netflix, and developing her next TV series.

David Sundin makes another appearance at No. 1 on the official Swedish bestseller list for children’s books, placing first with The Book That Did Not Want To Be Read. The paperback list’s No. 1 meanwhile goes to Anne Holt’s A Necessary Death and the e-book No. 1 to Jens Lapidus’ The No-Go Zone.

The new crime drama Huss is a series of five films starring Karin Franz Körlof as the daughter of the iconic detective Irene Huss, the protagonist of twelve classic films based on the novels by Helene Tursten.

A fresh graduate of the Swedish police academy, Katarina Huss has just started her job patrolling the streets of Gothenburg. But there’s more to the work than just solving crimes, as Katarina will discover. Besides getting to know her new colleagues and the local community, she must also win the support of her mother, Irene, who isn’t convinced by her daughter’s choice of career.

Jörgen Bergmark is the director and writer of the series together with Anna Platt, Hans Jörnlind and Peter Lindblom.

Huss premieres March 19 on Viaplay across the Nordic region.