Norway's Slow TV: A Surprising Hit (CNN.com)

[jtbell]

Anyone for "slow TV"?

Norway’s surprising TV hit (cnn.com)

Last Friday, 1.3 million Norwegians were indeed home, watching a smash hit television show. That's a quarter of the nation's population, tuning in for over 12 uninterrupted hours for a national…knitting evening.

A seven-hour train ride I could watch, especially if it's one through Norway. Long ago I took two days to travel by train from near Bodø to Trondheim to Oslo, gazing out the window and boggling at the scenery.

 

[Evo]

LOL...knitting.

What's next, watching paint dry?

I can knit, and my mother and grandmother knitted, watching it...meh.

 

[arildno]

Slow TV repeated itself here in Norway today, when chess prodigy Magnus Carlsen hammered at World Champion Viswanathan Anand's position for 6 hours or so, local time here from 10.30 to 16.30 (Anand played brilliantly, and gained a well-deserved draw).

Although "only" about half a million Norwegians were registered to have been watching the show at one time or other (if not for the whole match), this kind of popularity of chess is considered surprising, even "shocking" to the Tv-producers themselves.

 

[lisab]

Knitting doesn't have to be boring.

 

[Pythagorean]

For me, slow TV is letting my kids watch 50's cartoons but not spongebob squarepants.