TV autumn 2020 in brief: a-list actors, a predominance of miniseries and, as we suspected: no mammoth series.
Hollywood continues to lick actors to the small screen, and they probably prefer miniseries over the traditional, multi-year 10-episode seasons - the miniseries means a shorter contract, but still more room for character development than in a feature film.
A news for us in Sweden is that another streaming service will be launched on September 15: Disney +.
The service was launched with a bang in the US last year with the Star Wars series The Mandalorian, which became both a critics' favorite and an online meme machine.
It remains to be seen if it will be as popular here at home.
And with that said, we're well on our way.
Here is the list of some interesting titles in the fall of 2020:
Must Be Given (September 5, SVT)
Photo: Stina Stjernkvist
Independent sequel to the feature film from 2017 of the same name.
Director and author Ivica Zubac has called her creation "Solsidan fast i orten".
We follow Metin (Can Demirtas) who is back in Jordbro after a short prison stay.
His debut book has flopped and now he suffers from a crippling writing spasm.
The coffee room talk in SVT's drama corridor testifies to high hopes for this premiere.
The Mandalorian (September 15, Disney +)
Photo: Disney +
Disney +'s flagship series and another piece of the puzzle in the ever-expanding Star Wars universe.
Takes place five years after the events in Jedin's Return and is about the adventurer of the prize hunter Din Djarin.
The series is created by Jon Favreau and contains one of last year's perhaps most popular meme material, the adorable character Baby Yoda.
The music is composed by Swedish Ludwig Göransson, who last year won an Oscar for his music for the film Black Panther.
We are who we are (September 15, HBO Nordic)
Photo: HBO Nordic
Two 14-year-old weirdos grow up on a military base in Italy and cultivate a friendship that is not appreciated by their parents (Chloê Sevigny and Kid Cudi).
The series is written and directed by Luca Guadagnino (Call me by your name).
Judging by the clips that have been released, it is a finely tuned relationship drama not entirely different from the award-winning Call me by your name.
Music by Dev Hynes, also known as Lightspeed Champion, and Blood Orange.
Ratched (September 18, Netflix)
Photo: Netflix
Another origin story!
This time it is the most famous nurse in film history, nurse Ratched (you know, the hardening in Miloš Formans Gökboet from 1962) whose past is to be painted.
Sarah Paulson (Mrs. America, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip) plays the lead role as the young Mildred who in 1947 took a job at a madhouse in California where the color scheme is as disturbing as the treatment of the inmates.
The series is created by Ryan Murphy (Glee, American Horror Story).
The Undoing (October 26, HBO Nordic)
Photo: HBO Nordic
Sorry for the name dropping, but what else to do with such a cocky line-up?
The series is written by the American TV alchemist David E Kelley (Big Little Lies, Ally McBeal) and directed by Danish Susanne Bier (Revenge, Bird box).
In the roles we see, among others, Nicole Kidman, Hugh Grant and Donald Sutherland.
The Undoing is a thriller based on Jean Hanff Korelitz's novel You should have known (2014) and was to premiere this spring but was postponed due to the corona pandemic.
Top Dog (Cmore / TV4, late autumn)
Photo: Cmore / TV4
Crime party in every way.
The series is based on Stockholm noir author Jens Lapidus' novel series The VIP Room, Sthlm Delete and Top Dogg.
A mysterious disappearance accelerates the plot and forces the business lawyer Emily Jansson, played by Josefin Asplund, and the ex-criminal Teddy Maksumic, played by Alexej Manvelov, to cooperate.
I do not know what you think but I myself like to see everything with Manvelov, Sweden's Robert De Niro.
(Can you be so predictable? I see no other advice!).
The hunt for a killer (November 15, SVT)
Photo: SVT
Director Mikael Marcimain (Lasermannen, Call Girl) continues to dig into the heart of Swedish crime history.
The hunt for a killer is based on the crime reporter Tobias Barkman's reportage book with the same title.
The series is about a long period in Swedish legal history, but one of the cases that appears in the series is the bestial Helen murder that shocked Sweden in the late 80's and did not get its resolution until many years later.
Photo credit: Carolina Romare
LasseMajas Detektivbyrå (Premiere this Christmas, Cmore / TV4)
From left: Maja (Ellen Sarri Littorin), the Chief of Police (Anders Jansson) and Lasse (Elis Nyström).
Photo: Oscar Lovnér / C More / TV4
This Christmas, Cmore / TV4 started its investment in family entertainment with Ture Sventon and the Bermuda Triangle's secret.
This year, it's another beloved children's classic that turns into a TV series.
LasseMaja's Detective Agency is a series in six sections, all based on a book in the Martin Widmark and Helena Willis series.