We believe that My New Country essentially reflects our times.
More and more young people are leaving their home country to live their dream. These bold expats are full of potential. They are the correspondents of the show – our eyes and ears around the world.
In each episode we move from country to country. We visit exciting places, meet local people and are enriched by their culture. Through social media and other PR channels, our correspondents keep a strong connection during the whole production process to the audience back home.
For the second season we elected five correspondents. They are Finnish people from different regions, of different ages and backgrounds. What unites them all is that they live their lives abroad.
In the second season of My New Country, we take you on a fascinating journey to Chile, Australia, Italy, England and Iceland. We are guided by our five correspondents: Katarina Jansson, Ingrid Öhberg, Freja Lindeman, Kim Varstala and Christoffer Westerlund.
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Premiere on Saturday 25/04/2015 at 19:00 on Yle Five and online via Yle Areena worldwide.
The inner journey
There are essentially two ways of approaching trends. You either start a trends or you follow it. Then there are trends you don’t like and trends that you are happy to strengthen. From our perspective, the most important thing is being true to our own world view. Anything else is ultimately doomed to fail.
Since 2004 we have worked on a variety of travel shows. It is because society has been and is in need of positive reference images as counterweight to those which dominate in media. When we produced our first travel shows twelve years ago, the aim was to get people interested in countries and cultures around us. The intention was to present the world with the help of local people. We wanted to create something that is real and true and with a minimum level of ego.
After 2010, we started working on the format “My new country”, which gives expats the opportunity of looking at their new countries in a way that earlier only journalists did. It is a trend and part of the zeitgeist. But it is also a democracy project. No one should any longer have monopoly on information and the flow of it. This is a trend we support wholeheartedly.
In our effort to analyze trends, while still being our own world view faightful, we have been working on new projects. We currently have three projects in the pipeline that we will present in more detail during the year. Let’s call the new trend ”the inner journey”.