Norwegian leading indie prodco Seefood TV, credited for the Canneseries and Rockie Awards entry “Dumbsday”, is attending the Cannes’ TV festival and content market MipTV, with the quirky romantic comedy “Still Looking” (“Evig Singel”).
Prolific star actor Trond Fausa Aursvåg (“Oppenheimer” “Lilyhammer”, “Christmas on Blood Mountain”) toplines the Norwegian ensemble cast, next to Kristine Grændsen (“Dumbsday”, “Basic Bitch”), Kevin Vågenes (“What Happened to Solveig?”), Tuva Billing (“Lunch”), Lene Kongsvik Johansen (“Christmas on Cobble Street”) and Amir Asgharnejad (“Christmas on Blood Mountain”).
The six-part 22 minute episode “Still Looking” is penned by Andreas Rand (“Dumbsday”), Oddne Lekang Hølaas and Mike Torsvik Johansen (“Superhero Academy”).
“The series weaves together the stories of six characters between the ages of 25 and 50, who have all been single more or less all their lives. All are looking for love but never quite seem to find the right partner.
“We’ve been inspired by “Love on the Spectrum,’” Seefood TV co-founder Aleksander Herresthal told Variety. “In a way, we’re all on the spectrum, or have a friend or a family member who is. Through the series, we follow each character, as they try to find love, but systematically fail, for being too in love, or too needy, in other words too intense.”
The story was developed in full partnership with the six actors such as Grændsen who said she was keen to depict “the comical and painful sides of love life”.
Fausa Aurvåg for his part, said he enjoyed playing a silly character, without inhibitions. “It was liberating in a way,” he stated.
According to Herresthal, the show was fully financed by TV2 Norway who has ordered a returning season, ahead of the first season’s world premiere April 19.
Genre-oriented helmer Patrik Syvertsen (“Kielergata,” “Manhunt”) was hired to give an edge and dark-ish tone to the show, and mix docu style with comedy drama. “Patrik had worked earlier on the Discovery+ dark comedy series “Sigurd fåkke pult” about a guy in his twenties who hasn’t been laid. We felt he was the right director to lift ‘Still Looking’ and make it stand out on the market,” the producer said.
Seefood TV, which had its international breakthrough with the International Emmy-nominated comedy short form “Santas in the Hay,” is self-distributing the show globally.
Meanwhile its Canneseries competition bet and pandemic comedy “Dumbsday” is handled by Primitives. “Dumbsday” is due to screen in Cannes