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title: 'UK: Viaplay U.K. in August - Golden Boys, My Life as a Comedian, Headfirst'
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# UK: Viaplay U.K. in August - Golden Boys, My Life as a Comedian, Headfirst

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 **Viaplay U.K.**

**August 2026 Highlights**

**Please get in touch with requests for screeners and interview opportunities.**

**Viaplay is available in the UK as an** [**Amazon Prime Video**](https://www.amazon.co.uk/b/?_encoding=UTF8&benefitId=viaplayuk&node=3010085031) **Channels add on.**

**Premieres & Exclusives**

**Golden Boys – **Premium Must-See True Crime Drama starring Nigel Havers**

**Exclusive UK Premiere**

**Monday 10 August (First two episodes)**

[**Trailer**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqfaJOqqbPs)

Inspired by true events, and with a Netflix documentary coming soon, ***Golden Boys*** follows the meteoric rise and dramatic downfall of two cousins behind the financial heist that made headlines across Europe and stars British acting favourite **Nigel Havers**, alongside **Adam Lundgren**, **Erik Svedberg-Zelman** and **Viktor Björkberg**.

Stockholm, 1997. Financial criminal Joachim Posener, newly released from prison, dreams of building an empire and gaining power, respect and success. Driven by a need to prove himself to his parents and provide for his seven-year-old son, he joins forces with his reckless, boundary-pushing cousin, Thomas Jisander.

Together, they party hard, dream big, and devise a wildly illegal scheme to seize control of a major Swedish investment company – using an enigmatic British aristocrat as their front man. Calling themselves the “Golden Boys,” they pull off the largest financial crime in Swedish history.

But as a determined journalist begins to uncover the truth and the media and police close in, cracks form within the group. When the scheme collapses, Posener disappears without a trace, abandoning everyone closest to him – Jisander, his parents and his son.

**(True crime drama series, 4 x 44 mins episodes)**

**Swedish and English with English subtitles**

**My Life as a Comedian (En Komikers Uppväxt) ­– Comedy Drama Feature**

**UK Exclusive**

**Monday 24 August**

*‘An exceptionally worthwhile film… beautifully made and profoundly moving’* DVD Kritiks

Based on **Jonas Gardell’s** seminal 1992 novel, a Swedish cultural phenomenon that every eighth-grade student in the country had, ***My Life as a Comedian*** is a beautifully crafted film adaptation written by Gardell himself, starring **Johan Rheborg** (*A* *Life’s Worth*) alongside breakout talent **Loke Hellberg**.

In the late 1970s, 12-year-old Juha is the ultimate class clown of suburban Sävbyholm, willing to do absolutely anything to survive the schoolyard pecking order and win the validation of the cool crowd. Desperate to belong, he relentlessly tells jokes and performs sketches, just to get in with the popular kids.

Decades later, Juha has channelled his bittersweet childhood into a successful stand-up career and is touring in a hit show. But the comedy spin on his story isn't reality and when an unexpected visitor shows up it forces him to face the truth behind the punchlines.

**(Comedy drama feature, 92 mins)**

**Swedish with English subtitles**

**Headfirst (Päin seinää) – Drama Feature UK Exclusive**

**Monday 31 August**

*‘Superbly acted and very well observed’* Every Film

Beautifully crafted, dark comedy-drama ***Headfirst*** explores generational survival and the unbreakable bonds of family. Directed by **Antti Heikki** **Pesonen** and starring **Armi Toivanen**, **Eero Ritala**, **Kai Lehtinen** and **Mimosa Willamo**, the feature arrives on Viaplay this Summer.

***Headfirst*** is the story of hot-tempered single mother Essi and her equally stubborn teenage daughter, Takku, who constantly finds herself in trouble at school.

Essi watches her life unravel when an incident with Takku leads to social services intervening. After transferring to yet another school, comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the Essi. A pickpocket and a crummy storyteller team up with this beautifully dysfunctional family, as they navigate missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love and their lives will never be the same again.

**(Drama feature, 93 mins)**

**Swedish English subtitles

**August 2026 line-up**

**10 August**

**Golden Boys – Premium True Crime Drama Series – Exclusive UK Premiere (Eps 1 & 2)**

Stockholm, 1997. Financial criminal Joachim Posener, newly released from prison, dreams of building an empire and gaining power, respect and success. Driven by a need to prove himself to his parents and provide for his seven-year-old son, he joins forces with his reckless, boundary-pushing cousin, Thomas Jisander. Together, they party hard, dream big, and devise a wildly illegal scheme to seize control of a major Swedish investment company – using an enigmatic British aristocrat as their front man. Calling themselves the “Golden Boys,” they pull off the largest financial crime in Swedish history.

(Swedish 4 x 44 mins, English subtitles)

**17 August**

**Golden Boys – Premium True Crime Drama Series – Exclusive UK Premiere (Eps 3 & 4/Box set available)**

**24 August**

**My Life as a Comedian (En Komikers Uppväxt) ­– Comedy Drama Feature UK Exclusive**

In the 1970s 12-year-old Juha will do anything to climb the schoolyard social order, using jokes to win over the popular kids. Decades later, he has turned those painful childhood memories into a successful stand-up career, until an unexpected visitor forces him to face the truth behind the punchlines. Based on Jonas Gardell’s seminal 1992 novel, a Swedish cultural phenomenon.

(Swedish 92mins, English subtitles)

**31 August**

**Headfirst (Päin seinää) – Drama Feature UK Exclusive**

Hot-tempered single mother Essi watches her life unravel when her stubborn teenage daughter Takku's constant trouble at school brings social services to their door. This means a new school, a new teacher and a blast from the past for Essi. In this poignant feature, the beautifully dysfunctional family must navigate missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love.

(Swedish 93 mins, English subtitles)

**Screeners and talent interviews are available upon request.**

**Viaplay is available in the UK as an Amazon Prime Video Channels add on**

**AVAILABLE TO BINGE NOW ON VIAPLAY**

**1.       Save Me** - Acclaimed gritty Greek noir follows Nikol as she returns to her hometown for her father’s memorial. Just when she arrives, her younger sister mysteriously vanishes. She teams up with determined local detective in a hunt for a serial killer, blending mystery family trauma and moral ambiguity within an emotionally charged Mediterranean setting

**2.       Home In You** - A family is found on the verge of eviction because of gentrification in this intense Swedish drama. They scramble to find a new place to live and a sense of belonging during an idyllic Swedish summer.

**3.       Black Sands Season 2** **(*Svörtu sandar*****)** – Showcasing Nordic Noir at its very best, the award-winning Icelandic series, set against the country’s famous black sands, is a  darkly gripping crime drama featuring stunning cinematography and follows troubled police officer Anita (**Aldis Amah Hamilton** – Netflix’s *The Valhalla Murders*), who is forced back to her hometown to track a serial killer who has been avoiding capture for years by disguising murders as accidents.

**4.       Keep It Together** – Two sisters are forced to face the past and a new family reality, when their father receives a life-changing diagnosis in this immensely moving and humour filled new Swedish comedy drama.

**5.       Welfare Warriors** – A darkly comic workplace drama where bureaucracy meets the supernatural. Anneli Tiainen works as a service manager at a seemingly run of the mill employment agency, but things take a turn for the terrible, when she discovers the office is haunted. That coupled with the threat of mould contamination and impossible performance targets, sees her resort to increasingly bizarre remedies. But when one misstep spirals into chaos, Anneli must confront not only the strange phenomena invading her office – ghosts, visions, and creeping mould – but the collapse of her own mental stability.

**6.       The Fortress Series 1** – This Sci-Fi drama takes us to 2037, Norway, which has become a self-sufficient utopia – cut off from the rest of the world by a towering wall. The country thrives in isolation, with local food production, clean energy and strict border control. But when a deadly virus begins to spread, the wall meant to protect its citizens becomes a prison. Stars **Tobias Santelmann** (*The Last Kingdom, Veronika*) and **Russell Tovey** (*Gavin & Stacey, Him & Her*).

Press contact: **Deb Shenholds at Aim Publicity**[**debbie@aimpublicity.com**](mailto:debbie@aimpublicity.com)  **020 8292 2818 /07836 672 871**