A traditionally fertile ground for storytellers, Scandinavia’s TV drama landscape has grown tremendously in the past few years, bolstered by the boom of global and local streaming, pay-TV services such as Netflix, HBO, CMore and Viaplay across the Nordics.

After spending several years focusing on acquisitions and co-productions, all these new players have started diving into original commissions. Both in terms of volume and quality, streaming services have been driving the...