IT’S the kind of joint project that surely has to thaw the heart of even the chilliest of Euro sceptics.
Forget the rising costs of EU membership, the regulatory burden, the supposedly corrosive effects on democracy, our dire showing in the Eurovision Song Contest.
Europe produces lots of great exports. Not least in the arts.
And a whisper of a cross border co-operation between the creative teams behind two European political dramas has to switch-on the antenna of all of us who love the Machiavellian dealings of the people’s representatives everywhere.
Many of we BBC4 devotees took to Borgen without the need of a three-line Whip.
Who could resist the shenanigans of this Danish drama which seemed to make politicians what they are often not. And that’s absolutely riveting.
So to hear that its creator Adam Price is teaming up with a man who has the best possible credentials for writing about politics on this side of the North Sea is like winning a by-election.
Michael Dobbs, after all, launched his writing career with one of the all-time memorable characters of TV drama.
Who can forget Francis Urquhart, the fictional Conservative MP created by Dobbs for his series, House Of Cards.
Played deliciously by the late actor Ian Richardson, he was dubbed "the epitome of elegant evil," a pronouncement on which, as the character himself would have said: "You might very well think that; I couldn’t possibly comment."
Dobbs, himself a Conservative peer, has confirmed that he is working with the Borgen creator on a new show for the BBC.
It’s central character? A woman! Talk about timing.
