Facebook has ordered an English remake of the Norwegian web series Skam for its new Watch platform, Variety reports. The series will be produced by Simon Fuller’s XIX Entertainment, which secured the rights to produce the English-language version earlier this year.
The original show, which ran for four seasons as a web series produced by Norway’s public broadcasting network NRK, was wildly popular in its home country and eventually developed an international fanbase centered around Tumblr. NRK geo-blocked its web player after the series blew up in other parts of Europe, the UK, and the United States, and the series ended in January of this year with the vague promise of an English-language remake. It’s a teen drama similar to Skins, and...
