"Knit one, purl … eight-plus hours of live stitching? That’s
what’s happening tonight on Norwegian public broadcaster NRK2 as folks around the country gather in viewing parties.
The show is part of a phenomenon known as Slow TV which has increasingly captivated Norway. The overall gist of the concept, to which LMNO Productions recently acquired U.S. rights, is a hybrid of unhurried documentary coupled with hours and hours of continuous coverage provided by fixed cameras trained on a subject or an event. Prior to tonight, those have included a 7.5-hour train journey, a
134-hour coastal cruise, a stack of firewood and salmon. Tonight, NRK2 will turn its lens on
National Knitting Evening."
The subjects covered in the Slow TV canon have thus far had deep cultural ties in Norway, but Mocklebust says he thinks the format can travel. They’re also very inexpensive to produce. The Knitting Evening cost between $150,000-$200,000. Asked if there are any celebrities involved, Mocklebust says, “only the sheep.”
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Shockingly, posts about Norwegian Knit TV don't generate much interest in the American blogosphere.
Shockingly, posts about Norwegian Knit TV don't generate much interest in the American blogosphere.
Shockingly, posts about Norwegian Knit TV don't generate much interest in the American blogosphere.
I was watching it, ice. It's long and slow.
...and beautiful.
The waterfalls at the 11:00 mark - wow.
Yeah, no.
But Quick Draw is kinda fun on Hulu.
It was better back in the old days, before TV, because radio forced us to use our imaginations.
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