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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, who, after escaping Norway ahead of the Nazi invasion of the country, traveled to America to plead wit...

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 listening to MASTERPIECE Studio. World War II is underway, and Europe is on fire. A German invasion of...

‘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 real events, like this depiction of the royal family’s triumphant return to Norway in June 1945, ...

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 psychology and the ‘why,’ you know? Just having footage of Roosevelt moving through space, how he ...

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 questions from the audience.