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{{short description|German television series}}
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| image                = Sløborn promotional poster 2020.png
| caption              = Promotional poster
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| genre                = {{Plainlist|
* Dystopian
* [[Drama (film and television)|Drama]]
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| creator              = [[Christian Alvart]]
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| director             = [[Christian Alvart]], Adolfo Kolmerer
| starring             = {{Plainlist|
* [[Emily Kusche]]
* [[Alexander Scheer]]
* Adrian Grünewald
* [[Lea van Acken]]
* [[Wotan Wilke Möhring]]
* Aaron Hilmer
}}
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| composer             = Christoph Schauer, Max Filges
| country              = Germany
| language             = German / Danish
| num_seasons          = 3
| num_episodes         = 20
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| runtime              = 47–60 minutes
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| first_aired          = {{Start date|2020|07|23|df=y}}
| last_aired           = {{End date|2024|02|02|df=y}}
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}} '''Sløborn''' (titled ''The Island'' in English release) is an apocalyptic German-Danish television series produced by Syrreal Entertainment, [[ZDF]], Tobis Film, and [[Nordisk Film]].  It consists of 3 seasons and 20 total episodes released between July 2020 and February 2024.
==Background==
[[Christian Alvart]] was the primary creator of the series and its director.   It aired for three seasons between 2020 and 2024.  The series concerns a worldwide pandemic as it affects the residents of the fictional German island Sløborn located in the North Sea.  The first season was filmed before the [[COVID-19]] pandemic broke out, and debuted on the German [[ZDFneo]] channel in July 2020.  The parallels of the storyline to actual worldwide events helped fuel popularity of the series.<ref name="guardian1">(27 July 2020). [https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/jul/27/tv-drama-goes-viral-the-german-danish-series-that-foresaw-covid-19 TV drama goes viral: the German-Danish series that foresaw Covid-19], ''[[The Guardian]]''</ref><Ref name="sz1">Tieschky, Claudia (22 July 2020). [https://www.sueddeutsche.de/medien/sloborn-zdf-serie-wotan-wilke-moehring-1.4976224 Nein, das ist nicht die Serie zu Corona], ''[[Süddeutsche Zeitung]]''</ref>
The vast majority of the show is in German, but the first season especially has scenes where characters with Danish background such as the roles played by [[Roland Møller]] and Mads Hjulman converse in Danish.  In the third season, two lesser characters speak English, and the main cast switch to English when addressing them.
The title of the show is a play on the English phrase "slow burn", for a story that takes time to develop, which is most apparent in the first season of the show as the teenagers and adults on the island deal with more ordinary challenges of life as the "Taubengrippe" (Pigeon flu) begins to change their world.  The use of the "[[Ø|ø]]" in the title, a Scandinavian letter used in Danish, conveys that the fictional island is in a border area of Germany and Denmark.<ref name="guardian1"/><Ref name="kino">(23 July 2020). [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlW0ZEwnH-Q&t=6015s  Kino+ #308 - Sløborn, Out of Play, Yummy], ''Kino Plus'' (YouTube)</ref>
Under the English title "The Island", seasons one and two of the show have been released with English subtitles.<ref name="radiotimes1">(14 July 2023). [https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/drama/sloborn-release-date-channel-4/ Sløborn: Release date, cast and trailer for Channel 4 virus thriller], ''[[Radio Times]]''</ref><ref name="season2eng">Ellwood-Hughes, Pip (6 March 2024). [https://entertainment-focus.com/2024/03/06/walter-presents-sloborn-season-2-coming-to-c4-streaming-in-april/ Walter Presents: ‘Sløborn’ Season 2 coming to C4 Streaming in April], ''Entertainment Focus''</ref>
==Seasons==
The first season (eight episodes) debuted on television in Germany on [[ZDFneo]] on July 23, 2020, when the first four episodes were aired, and the whole first season made available online on [[ZDF]]'s website ZDFmediathek.   In November 2020, ZDF announced that the series had been renewed for a second season, with shooting to being in February 2021.  ZDF stated at the time that it had been the most successful streaming ZDFneo series to date.<ref name="second">(26 November 2020). [https://web.archive.org/web/20201126140232/https://presseportal.zdf.de/pressemitteilung/mitteilung/neoriginal-sloeborn-geht-weiter-dreharbeiten-im-fruehjahr-2021/ neoriginal "Sløborn" geht weiter / Dreharbeiten im Frühjahr 2021], ZDF Presse</ref>  In English, the series debuted on the UK's [[Channel 4]] streaming service on July 14, 2023.<ref name="radiotimes1"/>
The second season (six episodes) debuted online in Germany on January 7, 2022, and three episodes played on television on ZDFneo on January 11 and 12, 2022, and in two-episode offerings on ZDF starting on February 21, 2022.<ref name="season2debut">Schmid, Julia (29 November 2021). [https://serienfuchs.de/c-national/starttermin-handlung-besetzung-alle-wichtigen-infos_a24906 Starttermin, Handlung, Besetzung - Alle wichtigen Infos], ''Serien Fuchs''</ref><Ref name="taz2">(10 January 2022). https://taz.de/Slborn-Fortsetzung-bei-ZDFneo/!5824849/ Schutzlos auf der Insel], ''[[Die Tageszeitung]]''</ref>
The third season (six episodes) debuted online on February 2, 2024, and was broadcast in Germany on ZDFNeo during the night of February 2-3, 2024.
==Cast==
The primary cast includes [[Emily Kusche]], [[Alexander Scheer]], Mads Hjulmand, [[Lea van Acken]] Karla Nina Diedrich, Adrian Grünewald, and [[Wotan Wilke Möhring]].
==References==
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==External links==
* [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10384106/ Sløborn on IMDB]
[[Category:2020 German television series debuts]]
[[Category:2024 German television series endings]]
[[Category:Apocalyptic television series]]
[[Category:German drama television series]]
[[Category:Television shows set in Germany]]
[[Category:2020s German drama television series]]
[[Category:Danish drama television series]]