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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...

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mp_sf_list_0_image: 15610 mp_sf_list_0_title: Kyle MacLachlan mp_sf_list_0_description: Character: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, 32nd President of the United States On the Role: What really appealed to MacLachlan when considering the role was the depth of the characters, not just the plot. "The story appealed to me because I felt it was about the humans, about the people," MacLachlan said. "The war is going on and there is all this strife and the drama of that, but it’s really about how the peo...

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...

Watch the WWII Drama Atlantic Crossing on Masterpiece on PBS This Month Southern Living © Provided by Southern Living Courtesy of PBS Masterpiece on PBS is revisiting World War II with a new series airing this month. The show is called Atlantic Crossing, and it explores the challenges faced and friendships built by world leaders during the war. Of the plot, PBS says, "Inspired by a true story of a friendship forged in wartime, Atlantic Crossing explores politics and ambitio...

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‘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...

Number 1 on this list had to be the seminal Nordic Noir cross-country crime drama, The Bridge. Created by Måns Mårlind, Björn Stein and Hans Rosenfeldt the series begins when a woman is found murdered in the middle of the Øresund Bridge – right on the border between Sweden and Denmark. The Swedish and Danish police are called to the scene. What at first looks like one murder, turns out to be two. The bodies have been brutally cut in half at the waist and put together to form a singl...

Forget The UK Royal Scandal Headlines; Atlantic Crossing Focuses On The Norwegian Monarchy Fighting The Nazis Secret, and Home Fires were all very successful shows for the network. However, the story of Crown Princess Märtha of Norway (Sofia Helin) being offered refuge by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Kyle MacLachlan) is arriving at a time when current events may make the plot a harder sell to many loyal PBS viewers. Most reviews would focus on analyzing the strong ensemble cast and t...