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MIPTV: Spain, Austria Board Period Drama ‘Atlantic Crossing’ Ross Marrinson Beta Film has closed a pair of big broadcast deals for its WWII drama Atlantic Crossing, starring Kyle MacLachlan ( Twin Peaks) and Sofia Helin ( The Bridge), selling the limited series to  Spanish pay TV group Movistar+ and to Austria’s national public broadcaster ORF.  MacLachlan plays U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the series, alongside Helin as  Norwegian Crown Princess Märtha, wh...

Download and Subscribe to MASTERPIECE Studio Norwegian Crown Princess Martha was born in Sweden, but Swedish actor Sofia Helin didn’t know her story until she signed on to play the quiet Royal in Atlantic Crossing. But after coming on board the miniseries, Helin helped shape the story of the little-known Princess, bringing a surprising light to her powerful story. Helin talks royalty, FDR, and Saga Noren of Broen in a new interview. Transcript Jace Lacob: I’m Jace Lacob, and you’re li...

‘Atlantic Crossing’ crosses the Atlantic April 8, 2021 Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) has confirmed that its dramatization of Crown Princess Martha’s role during World War II is “mostly fiction.” The NRK series Atlantic Crossing is now being aired on PBS’ venerable Masterpiece Theater in the US, where hundreds of thousands of Norwegian-Americans may not be aware that it’s far from being factually correct. Some scenes from NRK’s series Atlantic Crossing are undeniably based on...

BRUCE R. MILLER To play Franklin Roosevelt in “Atlantic Crossing,” Kyle MacLachlan could have looked at dozens of award-winning performances. Instead, he leaned into Ken Burns’ documentary on “The Roosevelts” and pored over Doris Kearns Goodwin’s biography. “The research, for me, was really one of the greatest joys,” MacLachlan says during a Zoom interview. “The challenge, of course, is to get inside the person and figure out the psycholo...

MASTERPIECE Behind the Scenes of Atlantic Crossing Support for nhpbs.org provided by: Virtual Event MASTERPIECE is hosting a live event with the cast and crew of Atlantic Crossing on Sunday, April 18 at 2pm. Join actors Kyle MacLachlan (Twin Peaks) and Sofia Helin (The Bridge), writers Alexander Eik and Linda May Kallestein, and MASTERPIECE Executive Producer Susanne Simpson as they go behind the scenes of the new MASTERPIECE series and answer ...

Beta Nordic Studios Acquires Atlantic Crossing Producer Cinenord (EXCLUSIVE) Elsa Keslassy, provided by FacebookTwitterEmail Beta Nordic Studios, the umbrella for Beta’s production activities in Scandinavia, has acquired a majority stake in Cinenord, a leading Norwegian production banner specializing in high-end series. Founded in 2004, the company is led by Silje Hopland-Eik and Alexander Eik, the producer-director duo behind the popular Scandi series “Atlantic Crossing” and “Wisting,...