By Christa Lykke Christensen, member of research project Reaching Young Audiences

Key findings from a new report by the Danish Film Institute. By Petar Mitric and Pia Majbritt Jensen

While most Danish film and television production was halted because of COVID-19, Jonas Risvig’s web series CENTRUM , co-created with teenagers, has used the extreme moment in time to make two no-budget episodes a week about being young during a pandemic. By Katrine Bouschinger Christensen and Eva Novrup Redvall

While Danish schools have been closed since mid-March and all family members are staying at home in the evenings, new kinds of programming, such as live sing-along broadcasts, are suddenly finding popularity as primetime family content By Eva Novrup Redvall, PI of the research project Reaching Young Audiences

The Norwegian public service broadcaster NRK just premiered the longest slow TV broadcast ever with Svalbard Minute by Minute documenting a nine-day Arctic expedition. Next week the Swedish public service broadcaster SVT will try to convince children that slow TV is also for them with two weeks of live broadcasting from 6.30am to 8pm from a Swedish farm.

by Katrine Bouschinger Christensen and Eva Novrup Redvall In the 2010s, Danish public service broadcasting gained international attention through the interest in Nordic Noir crime and Scandi dramas such as The Killing (2007-2012) and Borgen (2010-2013). This led to a number of publications on the particularities of the productions as well as the production strategies […]