On September 26, the new horror-drama Färjan (Blood Cruise), adapted from Mats Strandberg’s novel, premiered its first two episodes on SVT Play to strong reviews.

The six-episode series plunges viewers into a terrifying voyage aboard the Baltic ferry Baltic Charisma. Two vampires, mother Edith and her son Walter, board in disguise, and when communication with the outside world is abruptly severed, the ship becomes a floating nightmare. Passengers must face suspicion, violence, and the creeping dread that no one can be trusted.

Thirteen-year-old Kolbjörn Skarsgård makes his debut in a leading role as the vampire Walter. He shares the screen with a strong ensemble cast, including Tuppence Middleton, Björn Bengtsson, Jessica Grabowsky, Marika Lagercrantz, Arvin Kananian, and Johan Ehn.

Färjan is directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby, and the screenplay is written by Strandberg together with Malin Lagerlöf.

Alice, 18, comes from the countryside. She moves in with her father Max, a photographer, and his new family in the suburbs. The family consists of stepmother Siri, a radiant feminist building a career within the UN, and two half-brothers: Michael, a peer to Alice, and the idolized, broken “Prince” – two years younger, set to play the lead in the Free Amateur Theatre’s production of Hamlet, staged in an abandoned, occupied industrial hall nearby.

Alice takes the bus into the city and starts building herself a life. The Evening School, the Free University, the Film Archive, Veronica Seger’s apartment where legendary parties are held, the streets of the city – all of this is about to become hers. And the people: Veronica, who teaches her to write like a little animal; Pelle, who becomes her boyfriend; and Evelyn, a rejected poet and dancer in a performance group.

It is 1976/77. “The Ice Age,” says Siri, who remembers another time, full of struggle and political conviction. A time that would later be referred to as “the most peaceful postwar years.”

That’s a lie: in Germany, a war is being fought against a self-proclaimed urban guerrilla movement, sending ripples throughout the entire continent. Violence creeps in, fear eats its way through – paint the town dread paint the town dread – and the dollhouse existence crumbles in the most brutal way imaginable.

Nowhere Land / Women in Revolt is the first part of a trilogy. It is about being so young that life is a horizon of possibilities and resistance, about what it takes to become an artist, and what stories one tells when nothing has yet happened.

Paramount+ U.K. & Ireland has confirmed that The Crow Girl, based on the international bestselling trilogy by author duo Erik Axl Sund, will return for a second season.

The first season quickly rose to become the No. 1 trending TV series on Paramount+ in the UK following its release, earning widespread acclaim. The Times described it as “one of the finest British crime thrillers of recent years.”

Eve Myles (Hijack, Cold Water, Keeping Faith) returns as Jeanette Kilburn, joined again by Katherine Kelly (Mr Bates vs The Post Office, The Long Shadow), Clara Rugaard (Black Mirror, The Rising), and Victoria Hamilton (The Crown, COBRA). Additional cast members will be announced in due course.

Executive producers include Buccaneer CEO Tony Wood, screenwriter Milly Thomas, music icon Slash, Eve Myles, Federico Ambrosini, Niclas Salomonsson, and Erik Axl Sund. Charles Martin returns to direct, with Debs Pisani producing.

Produced by Buccaneer Media, filming for the second season will commence in Bristol later this year.

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Everything can be bought for money – except the truth.

The historic Villa Caledonia in Djursholm has burned down, and its owner, Miriam de Brenner, is found dead. At the scene, Inspector Claes Ståhl and his colleagues make strange discoveries – in the basement, there is a vast collection of antique dolls, a ceramic kiln, and bone remains. The will also reveals an unexpected heir to the family’s great fortune…

Behind the fire lies a tangled web of lies and bizarre relationships, family trauma, and crimes beyond anything one could imagine.

The Peacock Man is the first part of the trilogy Mara’s Children. A story about how abundance, trauma, and lovelessness can affect a family for generations – and create people who are dangerous to everyone, even themselves.

The second edition of Seriesly Berlin has wrapped with the announcement of the winners of the Seriesly Pitch Awards, confirming the event’s growing reputation as a key meeting point for international series creators and industry professionals.

Screenwriter Yashar Alishenas and producer Elena Lyubarskaya have been awarded the SteinbrennerMüller Kommunikation Award, as well as a Special Mention by the jury for their work on the adult animated series The Last Family on Earth.

Set in the near future, the series follows Maria and Anvar Lieb, a couple on the brink of divorce who are suddenly forced to stay together, and survive with their dysfunctional family, when the apocalypse strikes.

The Last Family on Earth is created and produced by Lyubarskaya and written with Alishenas.

September 1st, 1997. Two children are born at Danderyd’s hospital. A boy and a girl who will grow up on each side of Sollentuna. Josef, with an immigrated single mother. Antonia, in a nuclear family in the upper middle class.

Over nearly three decades Pascal Engman portrays their lives in Sollentuna in his new trilogy The Clan. Two parts of the same municipality which equals two completely different worlds. Josef grows up in the immediate vicinity of the clan, the powerful Mansour family, who run Malmvägen and dictate the living conditions for the residents. But Antonia’s sheltered world also cracks, and their paths cross once more.

The Clan is an epic story about the growing gang criminality in Sweden during the 21st century. The drug trade, escalating violence, and constant fatal shootings are depicted from a number of individuals’ perspectives. The novel also explores honor-related violence, family relations, personal circumstances, and the love that tears down all walls.

May, 1436: The rebel leader Engelbrekt Engelbrektsson lies dead by the shores of Lake Hjälmaren, slain with an axe by Måns Bengtsson. The kingdom is collapsing. The throne is unoccupied, and those who can are gathering their strength to claim it: the bastard Erik Puke, once Engelbrekt’s closest ally, who has sworn an oath to serve the people’s best interests; Karl Bonde, a nobleman of cunning and wealth; Nils Stensson, called Nils Without Land, uncle to the murderer himself and the most driven among the great group of brothers who all bear shields of blue and gold.

Wolves at Play is the second part in Niklas Natt och Dag’s historical novel series about the dynasty that would become known as Natt och Dag, and the bloody power struggles that shaped medieval Sweden. Niklas Natt och Dag is the fifteenth-generation grandson of Måns Bengtsson.

Lisa Ridzén’s runaway bestselling debut When the Cranes Fly South features at No. 10 on Publishers Weekly’s official bestseller list for trade paperbacks in the US this week. This is the novel’s second consecutive week featured on the list, having previously come in at No. 12.