Occupied
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| Also known as | Okkupert |
| Genre | Political thriller |
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| Theme music composer | Sivert Høyem |
| Composer | Nicholas Sillitoe |
| Country of origin | Norway, France, Sweden |
| Original languages | Norwegian, English, French, Russian |
| No. of seasons | 3 |
| No. of episodes | 24 |
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| Production location | Norway |
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| Running time | 45 min |
| Production company | Yellow Bird |
| Budget | kr 90 million |
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| Network | TV2 |
| Release | 4 October 2015 – 2 January 2020 |
Occupied (Norwegian: Okkupert) is a Norwegian political thriller TV series that premiered on TV2 on 5 October 2015. Based on an original idea by Jo Nesbø, the series is co-created with Karianne Lund and Erik Skjoldbjærg. Season 2 premiered on 10 October 2017. The third and final season started airing in Scandinavia on 5 December 2019, and was released in many countries via Netflix on 31 December 2019.
With a budget of 90 million kr (US$11 million), the series is the most expensive Norwegian production to date and has been sold to Belgium, Canada, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Luxembourg, the Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, the Netherlands, Serbia, Sweden, Spain, and the United Kingdom. It is also streamed by Netflix in Australia, Belgium, Canada, Ireland, Israel, India, Italy, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
The series depicts a fictional near future in which, following a catastrophic hurricane attributed to global warming, Norway's newly-elected green party Ny Kraft Prime Minister has stopped the country's oil and gas production. Russia, with support from the European Union, occupies Norway to restore its oil and gas production, in response to a Europe-wide energy crisis.