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Premieres & Exclusives

Vangaurd  – Drama Series

Monday 24 November – Exclusive UK Premiere (Eps 1 – 2 then new episodes weekly)

Awards – Won Best Actor and nominated for Best Drama and Best Supporting Actor at Swedish Emmys the Kristallen Awards 2025

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Interview Opportunity: Zoe Boyle (Downton Abbey) and Jakob Oftebro (Agent Hamilton, The Case (new Netflix series)

Inspired by the tumultuous and innovative life of Jan Stenbeck, the man who paved the way for Vodafone and Rupert Murdoch’s Sky TV model, comes Vanguard a Viaplay Exclusive five-part drama series. A real-life Succession story starring Jakob Oftebro (In The Name of Love, Agent Hamilton), it follows the rise of a visionary disruptor who turned family feuds into a media empire that reshaped Nordic TV, inspired global players and charts the personal sacrifices that come with immense power.

At 35, Jan Stenbeck (Oftebro) appears to have it all: a prestigious career at Morgan Stanley, a glamorous life in New York City and a budding romance with American socialite Merrill McCloud (Zoe Boyle – Downton Abbey, Frontier). When tragedy strikes at home in Sweden, he’s pulled into the heart of his family’s industrial empire Kinnevik and headlong into conflict. As his bold ideas collide with his sibling’s traditional approach, including sister Margaretha (Malin Crépin), Jan puts his relentless ambition to use determined to reshape the Nordic media and telecom landscape. He goes on to break Sweden’s telephone monopoly and launch TV3 – Scandinavia’s first commercial channel.

But building an empire comes at a cost and behind the boardroom bravado lies a story of loneliness, ambition and the heavy price of progress. Vanguard is the story of one man who revolutionised modern media and the trials, tribulations and sacrifices that came with it.

(Drama Series, 5 x 45 mins episodes)

Swedish/English with English subtitles

Meaning of Life Season 2 – Comedy Drama Series

Monday 3 November (Episodes 1 – 4)

Awards – Won Best Actress and nominated for Best Comedy at the Swedish Emmys the Kristallen Awards 2025

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With its perfect blend of warmth, wit and honesty Meaning of Life returns for a second outing. The Viaplay exclusive drama series captures the bittersweet contradictions of modern adulthood exploring the unexpected mix of joy and sadness in everyday moments and the gap between the life we desire and our daily realities. Two sisters discover the Meaning of Life on very different paths with a fresh look at the roads we decide to take in adulthood and the things we are willing to give up along the way.

Ellen (Helena Af Sandeberg – Mafia) and Alva’s (Celie Sparre – The Truth Will Out) estranged mother Mona (Anna Bjelkerud – Blinded), turns up out of the blue and they reluctantly must play host to her, but her return becomes a catalyst for major changes within the family. For Ellen, who was 13 when her mother left, it’s an undesired reckoning with the past and a transformative step towards her own independence. Alva, just five at the time, sees Mona more as a stranger and maintains a cordial, if distant, relationship with their errant mother – until unexpected changes in her own life force her to re-evaluate everything she thought she knew.

As Alva copes with her relationship ending with Nico (Hannes Fohlin), pursues a new career and succeeds at something she previously thought impossible – albeit in completely the wrong way – those around her face their own turning points. There’s Nico’s new attempt at a nuclear family and Ellen’s husband Alex’s (Ulf Stenberg) surprising connection with a new boss who finally sees his worth.

Meaning of Life is wry, tender and deeply relatable exploring how we stumble, grow and keep searching for happiness – even when life refuses to go to plan.

(Comedy Drama Series 8 x 30 mins episodes)

Swedish with English subtitles

A Life’s Worth  – Drama Series

Continues with new episodes weekly with Complete Series available 24 November

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Interview Opportunity: Edvin Ryding (The Young Royals, 28 Years Later) 

This gripping Viaplay exclusive epic war drama, inspired by Magnus Ernström's novel Half a Year, a Whole Life continues weekly in November, with the complete box set available to stream at the end of the month. This powerful and harrowing drama set in 1993, depicts the first overseas mission of a Swedish UN battalion in Bosnia and follows four young soldiers Forss (Maxwell Cunningham), Babic (Toni Prince), Strand (Edvin Ryding – Young Royals, 28 Years Later) and Kilpinen (Erik Enge) who embark on a peacekeeping mission marred by moral and human challenges, under the command of conflicted officer, Andreasson (Johan Rheborg).

Deployed on their first UN peacekeeping mission in the Bosnian War, the soldiers arrive full of nerves and anticipation, expecting a clear-cut mission to maintain order. Instead, they’re confronted with the grim reality of ethnic conflict, where frontlines blur and atrocities occur beyond their power to stop them. Under the weary leadership of Major Andreasson, they witness devastation all-around, with massacres, the desperation of the civilians and the growing futility of staying neutral in a war that continuously demands sides. Their newly forged bonds are tested as they wrestle with moral choices: when to follow orders, when to intervene and when to simply survive.

A Life’s Worth is a stark story of human brutality filled with suspense, deep emotion and life-or-death stakes, as youthful idealism clashes with the harsh reality of war.

(Drama Series, 6 x 44 mins episodes)

Swedish/English/Serbian/Serbo-Croation with English subtitles

November 2025 full line-up

3 November

A Life’s Worth – Episode 3

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.

(Drama Series, 6 x 44 mins episodes)

Swedish/English/Serbian/Serbo-Croation with English subtitles

Meaning of Life – Episodes 1 – 4

In Season 2 of Meaning of Life, two sisters’ worlds are upended when their estranged mother returns, reigniting old wounds and sparking new beginnings in this warm, witty exploration of modern adulthood.

(Comedy Drama Series, 8 x 30 mins episodes)

Swedish with English subtitles

10 November

A Life’s Worth – Episode 4

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.

(Drama Series, 6 x 44 mins episodes)

Swedish/English/Serbian/Serbo-Croation with English subtitles

Meaning of Life – Episodes 5 - 8

In Season 2 of Meaning of Life, two sisters’ worlds are upended when their estranged mother returns, reigniting old wounds and sparking new beginnings in this warm, witty exploration of modern adulthood.

(Comedy Drama Series, 8 x 30 mins episodes)

Swedish with English subtitles

17 November

Home Invasion Season 1 (Trailer)

The series tells the story of two burglars who break into a house and find themselves face to face with an absurd close encounter.

(Comedy Sci-Fi Series, 6 x 30 mins episodes)

English

A Life’s Worth – Episode 5

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.

(Drama Series, 6 x 44 mins episodes)

Swedish/English/Serbian/Serbo-Croation with English subtitles

24 November

Vanguard – Exclusive UK Premiere – Episode 1 & 2

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.

(Drama Series 5 x 45 mins epiosdes)

Swedish/English with English subtitles

A Life’s Worth – Episode 6 Series Finale (Complete series available)

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.

(Drama Series, 6 x 44 mins episodes)

Swedish/English/Serbian/Serbo-Croation with English subtitles

Screeners and talent interviews are available upon request.

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AVAILABLE TO BINGE NOW ON VIAPLAY 

1.       Little Did I Know – Based on two bestselling novels, this award-winning film stars Alexandra Rapaport as Petra at two pivotal ages: at 50, her seemingly perfect life unravelling as she discovers her husband’s affair and impending divorce, and at 15 (Ella Hammarsten Liedberg) where we revisit her youthful pursuit of love and identity. It is one woman’s journey of self-discovery offering a painful yet hopeful view on love. (Trailer)

2.       Rebus - Based on Ian Rankin’s novels and adapted by Gregory Burke, Richard Rankin stars as brilliant but self-destructive Detective Sergeant John Rebus. Recovering from personal tragedy, he’s pulled into Edinburgh’s violent underworld, where a turf war, a criminal brother and a deadly feud with kingpin Big Ger Cafferty force him to choose between family and duty.

3.       Darkness: Those Who Kill Season 4 - The latest season of one of the most popular Nordic Noir series follows the murder investigation of a young gang member recently released from prison. The case unfolds into a complex, morally fraught murder mystery that spans the Øresund region and challenges notions of justice and retribution. (Trailer)

4.       In The Name of Love - In an eye-poppingly entertaining new comedy-drama series, we meet a family with a saucy secret from their past, but the past sometimes comes back with a bang, when you least expect it. This is a story about a family who has made their fortune in the porn industry, while living in conservative 1970s Norway. (Trailer)

5.       Sounds of Summer (Sommartider) - Get ready to rock this Summer with this foot stomping, feel-good story that tells the tale behind legendary Swedish pop sensation Gyllene Tider – the band second only to ABBA in the Swedish DNA. (Trailer)

6.       End of Summer - Sweden, Summer late 1990s: When 14-year-old Vera, refuses take her little brother Billy out with her it results in his inexplicable and devastating disappearance. Two decades later, an eerily familiar young man brings the now adult Vera back to her hometown where she's driven to unravel the mystery of Billy's fate. Based on the award-winning crime novel by a former police officer, this captivating psychological drama has been lauded as “a superior Swedish thriller”. (Trailer)

7.       The Congregation Season 2 – Based on an acclaimed novel by Jonas Bonnier and inspired by real-life events, the series follows the controversial Christian cult of Knutby. The taut, gripping psychological drama series explores sectarianism, coercion, arranged marriage and dangerous prophecies. (Trailer)

8.       Four Hands Menu & Food & Fire with Niklas Ekstedt –  Michelin star chef Niklas Ekstedt embarks on a global journey to six countries, exploring diverse open-fire cooking techniques and joins forces with world renowned chefs to create extrodinary “four-hands menus”. Nominated for ‘Lifestyle Program of the Year’ at the ‘Swedish Emmys’ Kristallen TV Awards. (Trailer) (Trailer)

Viaplay’s UK content offering focuses on the Nordic region’s high-quality and psychologically penetrating series and films, from atmospheric and suspenseful crime dramas and provocative and stylish young adult series to award-winning dramas and riveting documentaries. Subscribers will have immediate access to thousands of hours of premium Nordic and European content, including:

Nordic Noir/Crime Dramas: Iconic series The Bridge, Seasons 1-4; Lars Mikkelsen in Face to Face, an intense interrogation drama; Fenris, featuring mysterious disappearances in a wolf-inhabited forest; Trom, a mystery set in the picturesque Faroe Islands; and smash hit series No Time to Mourn, Seasons 1-5; Honour, Seasons 1-3; and Darkness: Those Who Kill, Seasons 1-3

Young Adult Series: Provocative drama Delete Me and coming of age LGBTQ+ short form series One of the Boys  

Dramas: Provocative drama Threesome, Seasons 1-2; The Architect, the award-winning dystopian dramedy starring Eili Harboe (Succession) that has been called “vicious and funny” by The New York Times; Lasse Hallström’s acclaimed feature film Hilma; top rated financial drama Exit, Seasons 1-2; hit dramedy Love Me, Seasons 1-2; sports biopic I am Zlatan; International Emmy-nominated The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen starring Connie Nielsen (Gladiator); Camilla Läckberg’s modern soap operas The Beach Hotel, Seasons 1-2 and Hammarvik, Seasons 1-4; and Swedish ‘TV Drama of the Year’ nominee Limbo

Documentaries: The Most Remote Restaurant in the World, a “can’t miss documentary” (Forbes) following the nearly impossible journey of a chef to set up shop in a far-flung Arctic location; and Crime Scene Sweden, a shocking in-depth look at infamous Swedish murders

Press contact: 

Deb Shenholds at Aim Publicity

debbie@aimpublicity.com  020 8292 2818 /07836 672 871