Netflix announces launch date for Borgen - Power & Glory and reveals a first look of the new season

Can you hold onto power and still stay true to yourself?

March 15, 2022 Today Netflix reveals the launch date for Borgen - Power & Glory. The new season of the acclaimed Danish political drama will premiere on Netflix in the Nordic countries on April 14 and the rest of the world on June 2nd.

Photo credit: Mike Kollöffel

Borgen - Power & Glory, again follows Birgitte Nyborg (Sidse Babett Knudsen), her staff and the media tasked with covering her, this time in her role as Minister for Foreign Affairs. The new season deals with some of the biggest political issues of our time; the relevance of the Danish Realm in the modern world, the superpowers' battle for control of the Arctic - and not least, the climate crisis. The main story focuses on the struggle for power and what power does to people - both professionally and on a personal level.

Birgitte Nyborg is the newly appointed Minister for Foreign Affairs when a drilling company suddenly discovers oil in Greenland. An event that marks the beginning of an international struggle for power in the Arctic, and one in which Nyborg, the otherwise so experienced politician, must repeatedly accept that despite Denmark's 'big brother' relationship with Greenland, when it comes to the international superpowers, it is Denmark that is the minor player - and a somewhat unruly one at that...

The new season will also follow Katrine Fønsmark's (Birgitte Hjort Sørensen) journey. After being Birgitte's head of press for a while, she is back in journalism and has landed a job as head of the news department for a large, nationwide television station.

Borgen - Power & Glory is a stand-alone continuation of the previous seasons of Borgen. The cast includes Sidse Babett Knudsen, Birgitte Hjort Sørensen, Mikkel Boe Følsgaard, Nivi Pedersen, Svend Hardenberg and Lucas Lynggaard Tønnesen, along with Özlem Saglanmak, Simon Bennebjerg, Johanne Louise Schmidt, Magnus Millang and Darren Pettie. Returning from the original cast are also Søren Malling, Signe Egholm Olsen, Mikael Birkkjær, Lisbeth Wulff, Lars Mikkelsen, Laura Allen Müller Smith, Jens Albinus, Lars Knutzon, Peter Mygind, Morten Kirkskov and Angunnguaq Larsen.

Borgen - Power & Glory is produced by SAM Productions (The Chestnut Man, Ragnarok) for DR in cooperation with Netflix and will premiere on Netflix in the Nordic countries on April 14, and the rest of the world on June 2nd.

Creative team:

Creator/ Writer / Executive Producer: Adam Price

Conceptual director: Per Fly

Creative producer: Emilie Lebech Kaae

Producer: Stine Meldgaard Madsen

Executive Producer: Meta Louise Foldager Sørensen