Lilyhammer Season 4 Not Looking to Good

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Declining ratings, a lukewarm critical reception and a conflict between Netflix and Norway’s state broadcaster NRK have all conspired to place a question mark over Lilyhammer’s future. The latter factor here is perhaps the most critical. NRK - the station that co-created the show and broadcasts it on terrestrial television in Norway - upset Netflix when it made every single episode of the show’s third season available online, all at once, before the season had finished airing on TV, and, crucially, before Netflix Norway had released the episodes on its own service. Netflix funds most of the show’s production costs, and so felt understandably short-changed by NRK, and angry that a mockery had been made of the pre-agreed distribution deal. As a consequence, the streaming giant has been stubbornly silent on the subject of forking out filthy lucre for a fourth season of Lilyhammer. At the time of writing, it looks very much like the entire project is dead in the fjord.

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