EU crime TV show launched to 'bring together' divided continent
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EU crime TV show launched to 'bring together' a divided continent
European Broadcasting Union launches new TV crime series that is a 'genuine European TV series'
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Originally Posted by Daily Telegraph
The European Union's broadcasting organisation has launched a new "cross border" television crime drama designed to "bring together" a divided continent.
The Team is a €10m television crime series, part funded by the EU's Creative Europe Media programme, that is based on the work of Europol.
The series is the brainchild of the European Broadcasting Union (EBU), the alliance of public broadcasters that produces the Eurovision Song Contest, and is assisted by the team behind the hit Danish political drama Borgen.
In The Team, investigators from Denmark, Germany and France are supposed to solve the murders of three young women in Copenhagen, Berlin and Paris.
The crime drama also attempts to tackle the linguistic complexity of Europe: each character uses their native language when in their own countries, – Danish in Copenhagen, German in Berlin and French in Paris, and this is subtitled in English. When the characters have scenes together, they speak in English.
Co-produced by 11 media organisations from eight member states and shot on locations across the continent, its script is "directly inspired" by Europol working methods.
The show is being screened from later this month in Denmark, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Sweden and Belgium, the six broadcasters involved in the production.
A Brussels-based EU source told The Telegraph, "This exciting new crime series shows that television, like the Eurovision Song Contest, can help bring Europeans together."
The EBU says The Team is the "fruit of a historic collaboration" and a "genuine European TV series".
"Series like Borgen reaped global acclaim and showed that language is no barrier to the international success of 'Made in Europe' fiction and The Team adds something new to the mix. It is the first genuine 'European' series of its kind."
With future EU funding it is hoped "that it will not remain the only 'pan-European' series of its kind".
Annika Nyberg Frankenhaeuser, EBU media director, added: "There is a solid history of co-production in the genre, but this is the first time European expertise has been shared to such an extent. The broadcasters started out with an audacious experiment which shows we can expect more great 'pan-European' co-productions in the future."
Peter Whittle, Ukip culture spokesman, said: "Europe already has a crime drama that crosses borders. It is a seven-year series called 'The £725 billion EU budget' and the victims are the powerless taxpayers across the EU."
Snort. It can't be worse than Captain Euro though.
One scenario for the team could be investigating the billions that are missing from the EU books in failed audits every year. That's a start.
Thoughts?
