Simon Fuller, who changed the landscape of television when he created American Idol, will produce an English-language version of Shame, a widely-acclaimed Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation series that has become one of Scandinavia’s most talked-about programs since its debut in 2015. The groundbreaking multi-platform teen drama will be produced by Fuller’s XIX Entertainment for the U.S. and Canada.
Known as Skam in Norway, the NRK series uses compelling narratives in real time with unknown actors and scripts that speak unflinchingly to a 16-year-old audience. The show has received massive attention and ratings among young and adult audiences throughout Scandinavia. In Norway, the weekly audience has grown this year from 24,000 to 1.262 million (Norway’s total population is 5 million), outperforming most TV and streaming primetime hits in the Scandinavian country.
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