NBC To Evolve Danish Drama Borgen With FNLs David Hudgins And Jason Katims

EXCLUSIVE: Round the heels of AMC’s effective adaptation of award-winning Danish drama series Forbrydelsen since the Killing, NBC is wanting to accomplish the identical with another recognized Danish drama, Borgen also called Government, that's been recognized since the Killing‘s successor. Friday Evening Lights executive producer David Hudgins will write the script and may executive produce the variation with FNL developer/executive producer Jason Katims. Universal Television, where both Hudgins and Katims they're under overall deals, will produce, with BBC Worldwide Prods., which introduced inside the project, also apt to be engaged. Within the same producers since the Killing, public broadcaster DR/Danish Broadcasting Corp., Borgen focuses on the ideal for political energy which is effects. It concentrates on smart and sexy 40-year-old populist party leader Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen) who scores an unpredicted election victory only to identify the finest challenge of her existence is yet later on. Having its dissection of political gamesmanship and a combination of figures including people in politics, media rewriters and reporters, Borgen remains compared to NBC’s White-colored House drama Free Air travel Wing. Like Aaron Sorkin’s Emmy-winning series, it too is called carrying out a building that houses a branch in the government — Borgen might be the nickname for Denmark’s Parliamentary building. UTA-repped Hudgins most recently co-opted for Katims the best season of Friday Evening Lights, which acquired 4 Emmy nominations, including best drama series, and won 2, best drama writing for your Katims-composed series finale and greatest actor in the drama series for Kyle Chandler. Hudgins created Fox’s short-were living drama Past Existence which is now working again with Katims round the NBC dramedy Parernthood. This can be a trailer for Borgen, that is moved in the usa by Link TV: