EXCLUSIVE: There’s simmering family drama and tension among the expats, and it is all playing out against a sweeping Spanish backdrop in a first teaser for Where The Sun Always Shines.
The Swedish series is the latest original from Comcast and Paramount owned SkyShowtime and will play across the streamer’s footprint of European territories. We can share the teaser trailer and the official art for the series (below). The sun shines on the wealthy expats in the trailer, but there are hints that everything is not as wonderful as it seems on the surface.
Erik “Jerka” Johansson (Bonus Family) leads an impressive ensemble, with Rakel Wärmländer (Limbo), Per Lasson (Thin Blue Line), Lisa Linnertorp (Sunny Side) and Claes Månsson (Äntligen!) and Suzanne Reuter (The Restaurant) all in the cast.
Writer-actor-director Felix Herngren, who created the series Solsidan and directed The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared, is behind the dark comedy-drama.
Filmed on location in Mallorca, the six-part series follows Tom (Lasson) and Petra (Linnertorp), a successful Swedish couple who sell their hypermarket in Sweden for a tidy sum and head for a life of luxury on the Spanish island. But during Tom’s 50th birthday party, events take an unexpected turn, pulling Tom’s brother Timmy (Johansson) and wife Maja (Wärmländer) into the story and setting off a chain of unexpected events.
Stockholm-based label FLX is on production duty. Swedish pubcaster SVT is a coproduction partner and will air the show in a later window.
Where The Sun Always Shines joins a growing slate of originals on SkyShowtime. The streamer gets big-ticket U.S. programs from its parent companies, but has been supplementing these with a steady stream of local drama, comedy, and documentary.
Deadline just broke news of another Scandi original for SkyShowtime, an adaptation of Johanna Hedman’s bestselling novel ‘The Trio’. One other much-anticipated project is cult cop show Glina, out of Poland, and which SkyShowtime is bringing back to TV after a 17-year break.
