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Premieres & Exclusives

Black Sands Series 2 – acclaimed Nordic Noir Thriller returns

New to Viaplay

Monday 18 May (two episodes weekly)

Trailer

“Hidden streaming gem of the year… a moody Nordic noir but with a pleasurably rambunctious Icelandic spirit” – Vogue

This superior Nordic noir is intense, sexy, well-acted and unnerving” – San Jose Mercury News

Showcasing Nordic noir at its very best, Black Sands (Svörtu sandar) earned 18 TV award nominations in Iceland, making it one of the country’s most nominated series of the past five years. Now, the highly acclaimed series returns for its second riveting outing exclusively on Viaplay, with two episodes dropping weekly.

Set against Iceland’s famous black sands, the darkly gripping crime drama features 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.

Season two follows 14 months on from the Black Sands tragedy, it’s the bleak Arctic winter and the survivors are still haunted by the revelation that a beloved resident was a serial killer, but the mystery deepens with the strange death of an elderly woman, followed by another shocking murder. 

As the investigation unfolds, the town's dark history of abuse and negligence is exposed, and when Aníta learns that the serial killer they caught was only one small part of a much larger, insidious secret, she’s forced to resort to drastic measures to put an end to the tragedy, pushing her to her limits.

(Nordic Noir Drama series 8 x 45 mins episodes)

Icelandic with English subtitles

S10 (Stien) – Music Feature Documentary on Dutch superstar and Eurovision singer

Exclusive UK Premiere

Tuesday 12 May 

Trailer

As the excitement build for this year’s Eurovision Song Contest, a powerful new feature documentary S10 (Stien) gets its UK premiere exclusively on Viaplay. The film shares the highs and lows of Dutch singer-songwriter Stien den Hollander, known as S10, who represented The Netherlands in Eurovision 2022.

The internationally acclaimed, charismatic hip-hop phenomenon has been hailed as a defining voice of her generation. Signed at just 16-years-old to Noah’s Ark record label, S10 made a rapid rise to fame with her raw, genre-defying sound and deeply personal lyrics shaped by her challenging experiences with mental health and a complicated upbringing.

The poignant film follows the performer at a pivotal moment in her career, on her road to representing her country, and grants us exclusive behind-the-scenes access, from songwriting to her standout stage performances, coupled with a stark look at the emotional pressures of stepping onto one of the world’s biggest music platforms.

Visually bold and emotionally charged, this fascinating documentary captures the highs of artistic breakthrough and the challenges that come with it, as S10 prepares to take her place on the global stage.

(Feature Documentary 70 mins)

Dutch with English subtitles

S10 (Stien) gets its UK premiere exclusively on Viaplay. The film (Feature Documentary 70 mins)

Dutch with English subtitles

Welfare Warriors (Sisäilmaa) – Dark Comedy Drama Series

Exclusive UK Premiere

Monday 4 May

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“A delightfully unhinged comedy that jumps from mood to mood with fearless energy”
–  Helsingin Sanomat

“A surreal and satirical look at the collapse of public institutions, with a uniquely Finnish twist”
– Cineuropa

Meet the Welfare Warriors in a darkly comic workplace drama where bureaucracy meets the supernatural, arriving this May exclusively on Viaplay. 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.

As the walls of the welfare state begin to literally crumble around her, Anneli faces a choice: give up or risk everything. Welfare Warriors is a bold, genre-blending comedy drama that mixes biting social satire with psychological suspense, offering a uniquely Finnish take on workplace burnout, public service pressure, and the absurdity of modern bureaucracy.

(Comedy Drama Series 3 x 60 mins episodes)

Finnish with English subtitles

Keep It Together – Comedy Drama Series

Exclusive UK Premiere

Monday 18 May

Trailer

Two sisters are forced to face the past and a new family reality, when their father receives a life-changing diagnosis, in Keep It Together, an immensely moving and humour filled new Swedish comedy drama that arrives on Viaplay exclusively this May.

When Kenneth, a retired bus driver in a small town in Sweden, learns that he has Alzheimer’s, his two adult daughters must confront not only his decline – but how to navigate their own relationship. Lina, a single mother and overworked nurse, suddenly finds herself housing her unpredictable father. Petra, the responsible older sister with a picture-perfect family, insists on structure and control. The sisters couldn’t be more different, and they rarely agree on anything – except that they love their dad.

Keep It Together explores the chaos of caregiving, sibling rivalry and the bittersweet comedy of everyday life. With sharp dialogue, relatable family dynamics and laugh-out-loud moments of absurdity, the series balances heartbreak and humour that will resonate across cultures and audiences. This is a story about holding on – to family, to dignity and to each other – when everything seems to be falling apart.

(Comedy Drama Series 8 x 29 mins episodes)

Swedish with English subtitles

May 2026 line-up

1 May

22 July (22. Juli) Series 1 – Drama Series

A six-part series based on the devastating true events of Norway's worst terrorist attack, in which more than 70 people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway's political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.

(Drama Series, 6 x 60 mins, Norwegian with English subtitles)

4 May

Welfare Warriors (Sisäilmaa) – Comedy Drama Series

This darkly comic workplace drama sees bureaucracy meet 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.

(Comedy Drama Series 3 x 60 mins, Finnish with English with subtitles)

The Mine (Jättiläinen) – Feature Film

A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe-trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing an entirely new method of collecting minerals whilst creating jobs in one of the poorest areas in Scandinavia. Jussi slowly discovers that he has been led astray by several people and that the new method has serious downsides he did not foresee. The mine is causing environmental hazards that are being hushed down. A new application for another permit is brought to his table by the same mine. Along with the application comes an interesting job offer and a chance of a new beginning. Jussi must decide whether he will play along and if so, with whom.

(Drama Feature 93 mins, Finnish with English subtitles)

12 May

S10 (Stien) – Music Feature Documentary

A powerful new feature documentary that shares the highs and lows of Dutch singer-songwriter Stien den Hollander, known as S10, who represented The Netherlands in Eurovision 2022. The film follows the performer at a pivotal moment in her career, on her road to representing her country and grants us exclusive behind-the-scenes access, from songwriting to her standout stage performances, coupled with a stark look at the emotional pressures of stepping onto one of the world’s biggest music platforms.

(Feature Documentary 70 mins, Dutch with English subtitles)

18 May

Black Sands Series 2 Eps 1 & 2 – Nordic Noir Series

The highly acclaimed Icelandic series returns for its second riveting outing. Set against Iceland’s famous black sands, the darkly gripping crime drama features stunning cinematography. This series resumes 14 months after the Black Sands tragedy, it’s the bleak Arctic winter and the survivors are still haunted by the revelation that a beloved resident was a serial killer, but the mystery deepens with the strange death of an elderly woman, followed by another shocking murder. Aníta learns that the serial killer they caught was only one small part of a much larger, insidious secret, she’s forced to resort to drastic measures to put an end to the tragedy, pushing her to her limits.

(Nordic Noir Drama Series 8 x 45 mins, Icelandic with English subtitles)

Keep It Together – Comedy Drama Series

Two sisters are forced to face the past and a new family reality, when their father receives a life-changing diagnosis, in an immensely moving and humour filled new Swedish comedy drama.

(Comedy Drama Series 8 x 29 mins, Swedish with English subtitles)

25 May

Black Sands Series 2 Eps 3 & 4 – Nordic Noir Series

5 Women (5 Frauen) – Feature Film

A group of female friends meet every year, for a relaxing break and to get away from it all in the south of France, but this years’ trip takes a dark turn… All is going well until one night, when they’re all on a crazy drug trip, a man breaks into the house, and in the mayhem, they kill the intruder and decide to hide the body. As darkness descends, a mysterious man appears from nowhere, looking for his missing brother. Scared and confused, the woman must tolerate his presence, and as sexual attractions deepen, tensions rise and a palpable danger hangs in the air.

(Feature Film 98 mins, German and French with English subtitles)

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AVAILABLE TO BINGE NOW ON VIAPLAY 

1.       Dangerous Truth (Das Zweite Attentat) – Powerful political thriller – from award-winning director Barbara Eder (The Swarm, Barbarians) – is inspired by true events that took place in 2003, in the lead up to the invasion of Iraq. The thrilling new drama, centres on a young man who tries to find out the truth about the murder of his father, who was a sniper for the Bundeswehr.

2.       The Stroke – Acclaimed Polish comedy drama lauded by Newsweek as ‘shockingly excellent, original, devastatingly sad, and…incredibly cheerful’ follows Jacek (Jacek Poniedziałek) a flamboyant foodie, Warsaw bon vivant and gay man, who hosts his own hugely popular TV food show and lives life to the full. But a sudden stroke stops him in his tracks and leaves him with tough questions to face, the biggest being… how do you fulfil your dreams after they’ve already come true?

3.       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).

4.       Vanguard – A real-life Succession story - Vanguard charts the rise of Jan Stenbeck (Jakob Oftebro), the visionary who revolutionised Nordic TV, built a media empire, and discovered that power always comes at a price. (Trailer)

5.       A Life’s Worth – This riveting, landmark drama series follows young soldiers thrown into Bosnia's brutal conflict in 1993, as they navigate the treacherous line between duty and humanity and explore the resilience and bonds that form in the face of conflict. (Trailer)

6.       Mafia – Hit Nordic Noir epic inspired by actual events, this sweeping crime thriller charts Sweden’s 1990s shift from peace to violent gang wars through the rise of criminal mastermind and his dangerous entanglement with lone cop (Katia Winter, Sleepy Hollow, Dexter). Their manipulative alliance – each convinced they hold the upper hand – spirals toward devastating consequences. (Trailer) (6 episodes)

Press contact: 

Deb Shenholds at Aim Publicitydebbie@aimpublicity.com  020 8292 2818 /07836 672 871