Lilyhammer

Lilyhammer is a Norwegian-American television series, starring Steven Van Zandt, about a fictional New York gangster, Frank "The Fixer" Tagliano, trying to start a new life in isolated Lillehammer, Norway. The first season premiered on Norwegian NRK1 on 25 January 2012 with a record audience of 998,000 viewers (one fifth of Norway's population), and premiered on Netflix in North America on 6 February 2012, with all eight episodes available in full for streaming on the service. Lilyhammer was promoted as "the first time Netflix offered exclusive content". The spelling of the series title alludes to LilyTagliano's dogkilled in the first episode during an attempt on Tagliano's life, and the way Frank and some other anglophones pronounce the town's name. The series produced three seasons, with the so far final episode airing 17 December 2014. On 22 July 2015, Steven van Zandt posted on Twitter that the series had been cancelled, and the following day Netflix confirmed that they were pulling out of the series. NRK, which owns the rights to the series, remained optimistic that a deal could be made with another company for a fourth season.