Friday, November 1, 2013

Norwegian "Slow TV" launched a 9-hour show about knitting - Reuters

Knitting, archival photo

nine-hour reality show on the full cycle of a knitwear replaced the tourist trips and travel on the Norwegian “Slow TV,” said UK Telegraph.

In Norway, launched Friday’s show, which is about 9 hours tells about knitting and needlework competitions are broadcast.

“Slow TV” has become popular among viewers of Norway after the broadcast of the 7-hour trip from Bergen to Oslo in 2009, broadcaster NRK.

original idea creators transfer of knitting was a goal to break the record of the famous show “From the sheep in a sweater in 12 hours.” During the telecast of participants had to quickly shave sheep, cook yarn and knit a sweater. The most successful result was 4 hours 51 minutes to create a woolen products.

Fans’ long-running “reality show claim that leisurely genre allows them to delve deeper into the details and see what you can not see the short-term observation of the events.

“We will try to set a 4-hour limit, and then we’ll see how it goes,” – says Rune Meklebust, director of the Norwegian TV channel.

According to the publication, “Slow TV” has already been successfully broadcast a 24-hour salmon fishing, the 12-hour show about the fire, and the hit of the summer was a trip on a boat for 379 hours. A record number of visitors in 2011, broadcast drew five and a half days’ cruise ship along the coast of Norway, on board which was installed 11 cameras.

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