![]() ![]() ![]() So Netflix borrowed a trunkload of cash ($16bn over the past 10 years) and plotted its transition from distribution to production. It was only a matter of time before the big media players noticed Netflix’s booming subscriber numbers and reclaimed their programmes for their own streaming platforms. But its biggest hits were existing shows such as Family Guy, Grey’s Anatomy, Law & Order, the US Office and Parks and Recreation. This had always been the plan: the clue was in the name. It had successfully transitioned from a mail-order DVD service to delivering content directly to consumers over the internet. By this stage Netflix had seen the writing on the wall. But the show marked the streamer’s first tentative step into making its own content, in partnership with the Norwegian broadcaster NRK1. ![]() Lilyhammer was not exactly a smash hit, even if an estimated 20% of Norway’s population watched it. So how did it take over entertainment in just 10 years? Its competitors have been playing catchup ever since. In 2021 alone it released over 150 original movies – three per week. It has created more than 1,500 original series, including planet-straddlingly massive shows such as Stranger Things and Bridgerton. It is available in more than 190 countries (Netflix UK launched the same month as Lilyhammer). It has successfully reorganised traditional broadcast television and theatrical cinema models and put itself at the centre, growing from 24 million subscribers in 2012 to 214 million this year. Netflix has changed what we watch and the way we watch it. Ten years on, our entertainment landscape is almost unrecognisable. The same could be said for us: Lilyhammer was Netflix’s first original series. The sleepy, snowy town didn’t know what was about to hit it. After ratting out his associates, his new character, Frank “the Fixer” Tagliano, had to begin a new life – in Lillehammer, Norway. He wasn’t that new: Van Zandt was basically reprising the New Jersey mobster persona he’d successfully deployed for nearly a decade in The Sopranos. “I’m a brand new guy over here,” said “Little” Steven Van Zandt in the first episode of Lilyhammer, back in January 2012. ![]()
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