What Makes Danish TV
Drama Series Travel?

Transnational Production,
Cultural Export and
the Global Reception of
Danish Drama Series

About the project

The project investigates why and how Danish TV drama currently is travelling. Our hypothesis is that specific transformations and value creations are happening at all stages in the production system of Danish TV drama production, from the idea to the production, distribution and reception processes, respectively. Read more

Conference: Transnational Television Drama 2018

What makes Danish TV drama travel? Video presentations from the Transnational Television Drama conference in Aarhus 5-9 June 2018.

Posters from the conference:
Television Production in a Small Nation Screen Idea System - Eva Novrup Redvall
Does Subtitled Television Drama Brand the Nation? Danish television drama and its language(s) in Japan - Ushma Chauhan Jacobsen
The Golden Age: Danish Public Service Drama Series 1995-2015 - Gunhild Agger
What Makes Danish TV Drama Travel? - Anne Marit Waade
Studying the global audiences of Danish TV drama through the three-leaf clover methodology - Pia Majbritt Jensen
Why Danish TV Series Travel - Jakob Isak Nielsen
The Popularity of Danish TV Drama Series on German Television - Susanne Eichner
Nordic Noir sold Danish television series to the world - Kim Toft Hansen & Anne Marit Waade
Remaking Danish Television Series in the US: The Showrunner Effect - Lynge Stegger Gemzøe

Project team

Read about our researchers

Conference 2018

Transnational Television Drama (call for papers - deadline: 15 January 2018).

Television from Small Nations

We are also participating in the multidisciplinary international research network, Television from Small Nations . For further reading and news, view the project blog.

Project coordinator

Anne Marit Waade

Professor, Head of Department

M amwaade@cc.au.dk
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P +4587162009
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News

26 September 2018 - People

Robert A. Saunders is currently an Aarhus University Research Foundation-funded guest researcher at the School of Communication and Culture - Media Studies, where he is working on a book entitled The Geopolitics of New Nordic Noir for Routledge’s series in Popular Culture and World Politics.

13 June 2018 - Events

Read about the plenary sessions and debates at the Transnational TV Drama conference that took place from 6. - 9. June 2018 at Aarhus University.

07 June 2018 - Conference

"This week we host an international conference about 'Transnational Television Drama' at Aarhus University. I welcomed the participants yesterday with these words: What if – television drama series can make a difference? In our society, in our community, in our lives?"...

03 November 2017 - Conference

Find information about the conference and read our call for papers (deadline: 15 January 2018).

03 November 2017 - Publication

by Kim Toft Hansen & Anne Marit Waade.

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What Makes Danish TV Drama Series Travel?

What Makes Danish TV
Drama Series Travel?

About the project