Lilyhammer is a Norwegian-American television series, starring Steve Van Zandt, about a New York gangster trying to start a new life in far away Lillehammer in Norway. The first season premiered on Norwegian NRK1 on 25 January 2012 with a record audience of 998,000 viewers (one fifth of Norway's population), and premiered on Netflix in the United States, Latin America and Canada on February 6, 2012, with all eight episodes being available in full on the server for streaming. Lilyhammer is the first Original and co-produced series by Netflix. - Source: Wikipedia