Netflix announced a pact to offer the third season of original series “Lilyhammer,” the Norwegian dramedy starring Steven Van Zandt — indicating that the offbeat show is a sleeper hit of some kind for the streaming provider.

Season 3 of “Lilyhammer” will be available on Netflix sometime later in 2014 with a premiere date yet to be announced. Show follows a mobster played by Van Zandt who enters the witness protection program in Lillehammer, Norway. Van Zandt, a member of Bruce Springsteen’s E Street Band, played a mafioso in HBO’s “The Sopranos.”

The series’ eight-episode season 2 debuted in December in the U.S., Canada, the U.K., Ireland, Latin America, Denmark and the Netherlands.

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“Lilyhammer” was Netflix’s first original series, bowing in February 2012. Show was developed by Rubicon TV AS and is coproduced by Rubicon and Netflix for NRK/Netflix in association with Red Arrow International, which distributes the show. Producers include Trond Berg Nilsen and Agnete Thuland; exec producers include Van Zandt and Lasse Hallberg.