{"id":540731,"date":"2026-07-14T09:55:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:55:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540731\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:55:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T09:55:13","slug":"australias-sbs-buys-icelandic-portuguese-drama-cold-haven","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/540731\/","title":{"rendered":"Australia’s SBS Buys Icelandic-Portuguese Drama ‘Cold Haven’"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tEXCLUSIVE: Icelandic-Portuguese crime thriller Cold Haven<\/a> has found a home in Australia.<\/p>\n

\n\tPublic service network SBS<\/a> has acquired the show for its streamer, SBS On Demand, and will launch on July 15 after a deal with distributor About Premium Content (APC).<\/p>\n

\n\tCold Haven\u00a0follows Maria (Maria Jo\u00e3o Bastos), a Portuguese woman who has relocated to Iceland with her teenage daughter, Bela (Catarina Rebelo), in search of a better life, but is soon found dead. The tragedy shocks the close-knit island community and sparks a criminal investigation that forces Icelandic detective Soff\u00eda (Krist\u00edn \u00de\u00f3ra Haraldsd\u00f3ttir) to confront challenges she never expected.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe story unfolds across the Icelandic archipelago of Vestmannaeyjar, and the Icelandic and Portuguese capitals of Reykjav\u00edk and Lisbon.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe series launched in late 2025 following a festival run during which it won a gold medal at the World Media Festival and was nominated for Best Non-English Language Drama Series at the Banff Rockie Awards. <\/p>\n

\n\tThe Icelandic-Portuguese co-production aired on S\u00edminn in Iceland and both RTP and RTP Play in Portugal, respectively.<\/p>\n

\n\tFilipa Poppe, Joana Andrade, Sveinbj\u00f6rn I. Baldvinsson and El\u00edas Helgi Kofoed-Hansen wrote the show with\u00a0Arn\u00f3r P\u00e1lmi Arnarsson the director.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAustralia is another important milestone in\u00a0Cold Haven\u2018s international journey,\u201d said Andri Omarsson, CEO of Glassriver<\/a> From the outset, this was a story designed to connect audiences across borders, bringing together Icelandic and Portuguese talent both on and off screen. The response that the series has received since its premiere has been incredibly rewarding, and we\u2019re excited for Australian viewers to now discover it.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe arrival of\u00a0Cold Haven\u00a0to Australia reflects what SPI<\/a> and Glassriver set out to prove: that great stories, world-class talent and high-end production values, brought together across borders, can travel the world,\u201d added Jo\u00e3o Maia Abreu, VP Sales & Communication at SPi.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cThe series stands as a showcase of the creative and technical capability both companies bring to international co-productions, and this premiere in Australia proves that the ambition behind\u00a0Cold Haven\u00a0is resonating with audiences well beyond Iceland and Portugal.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EXCLUSIVE: Icelandic-Portuguese crime thriller Cold Haven has found a home in Australia. Public service network SBS has acquired…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":540732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[246267,146,246268,85,46,51449,246269],"class_list":["post-540731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-cold-haven","tag-entertainment","tag-glassriver","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sbs","tag-spi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=540731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/540731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/540732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=540731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=540731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=540731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}