Piv Bernth talks about “Feelings and Things”, “Dependency” and the Hit Man series

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Apple Tree Productions, the Danish company led by “The Killing” producer Piv Bernth, is once again teaming up with the creative duo behind the feel-good period drama “Chorus Girls,” Ditte Hansen and Louise Mieritz, Bernth said diversity at the Monte Carlo Television Festival.

Hansen and Mieritz are currently developing a comedy-drama series with the working title “Feelings and Things,” set in a shopping mall in modern-day Denmark. The underlying message will be the same as “Chorus Girls”: “Together we are stronger,” Bernth said.

“The people who work in the stores in the malls are paid really poorly, but they keep selling things to people who don’t really need them,” Bernth said.

The Danish broadcaster TV2 is a partner of the new show, the production of which will start next year.

Hansen and Mieritz are co-writers and co-directors.

Apple Tree is also involved in a TV adaptation of Tove Ditlevsen’s autobiographical novel “Dependency,” with TV2 on board, Bernth said.

Tove is played by four actresses in four periods of her life, from the late 1930s until her death in 1976.

The miniseries begins on the last day of her life, when she commits suicide while sorting out her financial affairs and submitting her final manuscript to her publisher.

Bernth said Apple Tree’s Danish-American co-production about a Danish hitman, which was to be co-produced by ITV Studios America, was on hold. The director was to be Mikkel Norgaard and the screenplay was written by Eric Devlin Taylor.

Bernth said Apple Tree is currently developing a feature film that has been offered to Netflix, but its core business remains in producing feature film series.

News about the development of “Feelings and Things” was first reported in Deadline.