Slow TV

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What's more interesting to watch on TV than 12 hours of burning wood? Paint dry maybe? Though don't let NRK know or else we may have slow TV watching paint dry.

Anyways, for those like my husband who has nothing but pure Norwegian background, meaning his ancestors had to deal with the cold before heaters and electricity, they had no choice but to turn to wood for building a fire in order to stay warm in the cold and frosty Norway. It's almost hard to understand back then, why did people stay and live in Norway before the time of electricity? Why not move to a warmer place?

So Norwegian history, I suppose, has a lot to owe to fire wood. Without it, Norwegians probably wouldn't be here today.

In a tribute to firewood, 12 hours of burning wood was shown on air. Awesome. Not only that, but Stephen Colbert laughed at how "almost 20% of the population was tuned in." National Firewood Night (cue the Norwegian pride on making it in to American news).


Or maybe you'd like to tune in to watching a train traveling through the country? Or a ship's voyage off the coast of Bergen to Kirkenes? Perhaps ribbe being roasted in an oven on Christmas Eve for 7 hours? How about a peep show? Which is absolutely not what you would think. Peep Show is what NRK called their slow TV show with a camera placed inside a bird house.

A large percentage of the population turns their TVs on to NRK's slow TV when they air their minute by minute viewings of all things slow. In the case of the Christmas ribbe (pork rib) grad for grad or degree by degree, a viewing of the inside of an oven with pork rib being roasted for 7 hours!

So have fun, get the real Norwegian experience with tuning in to slow TV!

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