"Private Banking" will not be a new SRF series after all
SRF will not be producing a series about the lives of bankers after all. A spokeswoman confirmed this to the *Handelszeitung*.
In 2015, SRF announced its intention to launch a new series entitled "Private Banking" alongside the crime series "The Undertaker". Urs Fitze, Head of Fiction, was quoted in the media at the time as saying that it would start in 2017. This is no longer the case.
The banker epic has mutated into a two-parter, as the SRF spokesperson explains. Bettina Oberli ("Die Herbstzeitlosen") is still the director. She herself explains the change in format in terms of content. When developing the script, Oberli came to the conclusion that the format of two 90-minute episodes was more suitable. "This condensed format fits better than a series." The film is still about change in the financial sector and the end of banking secrecy, she says, "but not as a thriller. Instead, we want to show what this can mean for individual players inside and outside the banking sector."
