State televsion, how I love you!

[frualeydis]

The commercial channels are showing a couple of years old movies that has been sent a thousand times before and the "documentary" about Britney Spears and her husband. The state television has shown a programme about the first sami writer to be published in the early 20th century (the sami are the indigenous people of northern Scandinavia, Finland and western Russia) and is now showing the weekly classical concert, which today is a themed concert about Queen Christina of Sweden who was queen in the 17th century, abdicated and became a catholic. So there is baroque music with a wonderful soprano solist and also some dance.
I don't mind paying the TV-license at all.

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[mirazandar.livejournal.com]

i know. It's good to have a channel that usually has something useful to talk about... allthough I often accuse svt1 of being better than nrk.

Allthough our prime minister who is on the telly now makes me embarassed with his poor rethorics...

Swedish TV

[(Anonymous)]

The best programme I've seen on your TV when I've been in Visby for a week was the DIY show where the p[rsenter cut a hole in the inside wall of his house to insert a TV screen so it was flush with the wall.

But who can forget the moment when I saw part of a late programme "Allsang Pa Skansen".... While the Compere sang, a group of male and females dressed in overalls began to dismantle part of the stage set by removing some of the words of Allsang to an ecstatic crowd. This was followed by a large box wheeled on to the stage which the Compere signed for like you do a parcel. The box opened up to reveal a rather aged rocker in a brown sports jacket and jeans, sporting a beard with a plait in it and waist length hair!

No doubt the Swedes are amused by some of our programmes but I am sure they are better than some of the rubbish reality TV we have to suffer (turn off actually)here in England!!

At least I actually saw Medieval Week covered on the news at one stage - probably at least a few times last year when I was in Visby, plus a concert was shown from one of the ruins at night, but not filmed during Medeltidsveckan.

Watching "foreign" Tv can be fascinating, as you get an insight into culture and life abroad and how tastes, fashions and so on differ or are similar.

We of course have exported programmes to you, which Include "Midsomer Murders" and a documentary about taking modern teenagers back in time to the 1960's to exoperience school life and discipline as it was then. This was odd, as your education system and culture must be quite different to ours and would have seemed odd. Maybe not, but that's what I thought when I saw this was on.

Not that I did spend that much time watching TV when I was there that week, despite what it sounds!!

Best Wishes Eva and to you all for 2006

from

Paul