https://feeds.thelocal.com/ Read the latest news and views from Norway in English en-us news@thelocal.com (TheLocal) webmaster@thelocal.com (TheLocal) TheLocal RSS Feed Norway's broadcasting ombudsman has received close to a hundred complaints this week after state broadcaster NRK gave the Muslim Eid celebrations the sort of coverage normally given to Christmas. https://www.thelocal.no/20200527/norway-tv-flooded-with-complaints-after-eid-broadcast Wed, 27 May 2020 13:03:59 +0200 norway-tv-flooded-with-complaints-after-eid-broadcast Norway’s national broadcaster NRK on Saturday launched a brand new television series with young adults as its protagonists, echoing the previous hugely successful ‘Skam’. https://www.thelocal.no/20180416/norway-surprises-with-launch-of-new-skam-series Mon, 16 Apr 2018 14:43:57 +0200 norway-surprises-with-launch-of-new-skam-series A Norwegian news site has launched a new feature to try to sift out the number of trolls commenting on its articles by having readers take a quiz on the story before they can vent their opinions about it. https://www.thelocal.no/20170302/norwegian-news-site-sifts-out-trolls-with-quiz-for-commenters Thu, 02 Mar 2017 11:10:05 +0100 norwegian-news-site-sifts-out-trolls-with-quiz-for-commenters A Norwegian journalist held in Yemen since late March has been released and is on his way home, the Norwegian foreign ministry said Friday. https://www.thelocal.no/20150417/norway-journalist-released-from-yemen-jail Fri, 17 Apr 2015 20:19:43 +0200 norway-journalist-released-from-yemen-jail A 28-year-old Norwegian working for the country’s state broadcaster NRK has been held in a Yemeni prison for twelve days, the channel revealed on Wednesday. https://www.thelocal.no/20150408/norway-journalist-jailed-in-yemen Wed, 08 Apr 2015 23:56:12 +0200 norway-journalist-jailed-in-yemen A Norwegian animated satire on this month’s 11-day disappearance of Russian President Vladimir Putin has hit a nerve in Russia, winning almost 900,000 views on YouTube, almost all of which came from the former Soviet Union. https://www.thelocal.no/20150324/norwegian-putin-satire-takes-off-in-russia Tue, 24 Mar 2015 23:07:41 +0100 norwegian-putin-satire-takes-off-in-russia Britain’s BBC has woken up to Norway's 'Slow TV' trend, scheduling a 'slow week' in June featuring programming inspired by NRK’s snail-paced spectaculars. https://www.thelocal.no/20150302/bbc-to-run-slow-week Mon, 02 Mar 2015 09:41:54 +0100 bbc-to-run-slow-week Norwegian islamist Mullah Krekar was arrested at his home in Oslo on Thursday evening after telling Norway’s NRK that the Charlie Hebdo terror attacks made him “happy” and that anyone who made cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed deserved to die. https://www.thelocal.no/20150227/norway-islamist-seized-for-celebrating-charlie-hebdo-attack Fri, 27 Feb 2015 09:28:31 +0100 norway-islamist-seized-for-celebrating-charlie-hebdo-attack Norway's Football Association has threatened to take state-owned broadcaster NRK to court for copyright violation after it started showing 90 second excerpts of each of the country's Elite League games. https://www.thelocal.no/20140625/football-association-to-take-nrk-to-court Wed, 25 Jun 2014 13:50:00 +0200 football-association-to-take-nrk-to-court Jakob Oftebro, who played menacing green activist Mads in The Bridge, the hit Danish TV series, has been chosen to host the national television coverage of Norway's Constitution Day on 17 May. https://www.thelocal.no/20140506/bridge-star-ofterbro-to-lead-national-day-tv Tue, 06 May 2014 15:37:23 +0200 bridge-star-ofterbro-to-lead-national-day-tv Norway's ever-inventive national television channel NRK has moved from 'Slow TV' to 'TV Macabre' with "The Coffin", which follows a set of celebrities planning their own funerals. https://www.thelocal.no/20140415/norway-tv-shows-celebrities-planning-own-funerals Tue, 15 Apr 2014 11:08:00 +0200 norway-tv-shows-celebrities-planning-own-funerals The Norwegian duo behind last month's eerily accurate Sherlock spoof have done it again, but this time pushing their exaggerated take on the show's homoerotic themes even closer to the mark, and arguably well over it. Warning: it's quite risqué. https://www.thelocal.no/20140408/video-norway-2 Tue, 08 Apr 2014 13:17:00 +0200 video-norway-2 The Guardian has given NRK's Mammon TV drama a decidedly lacklustre first review, badly damaging its chances of becoming the UK's next 'Scandi Noir' hit. https://www.thelocal.no/20140331/nrks-mammon-hammered-by-guardian Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:26:00 +0200 nrks-mammon-hammered-by-guardian Two Sherlock-obsessed Norwegian TV executives have cooked up what must be the best parody yet of the BBC's updated Holmes and Watson series. Warning: It's a bit risqué. https://www.thelocal.no/20140314/video-sherlock-obsessed-norwegians-make-brilliant-parody Fri, 14 Mar 2014 17:36:00 +0100 video-sherlock-obsessed-norwegians-make-brilliant-parody Masked guards seized computers and storage devices from three Norwegian journalists on Tuesday and labelled them as spies as they attempted to leave the Crimean peninsula for mainland Ukraine. https://www.thelocal.no/20140311/masked-russians-seized-our-gear-ukraine-crimea Tue, 11 Mar 2014 19:23:00 +0100 masked-russians-seized-our-gear-ukraine-crimea A TV sketch lampooning the banning of Jews from Norway in the country's first constitution has been condemned as "shocking" and "embarrassing" by a leading politician in the country. https://www.thelocal.no/20140217/nrk-slammed-for-jew-clause-joke Mon, 17 Feb 2014 10:11:00 +0100 nrk-slammed-for-jew-clause-joke Images of knitting, fishing and panoramic landscapes are attracting record audiences in Norway after public broadcaster NRK replaced some of its usual prime time drama with "slow TV". https://www.thelocal.no/20131201/slow-tv-attracts-record-audiences-in-norway Sun, 01 Dec 2013 11:05:00 +0100 slow-tv-attracts-record-audiences-in-norway Norwegian broadcaster NRK has decided to broadcast every single move of Magnus Carlsen's battle to become the world's chess champion -- a massive 100 hours of coverage -- on its top channel NRK1, a move influenced by its latest string of 'slow-TV' successes. https://www.thelocal.no/20131104/norways-to-show-100-hours-of-chess Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:40:00 +0100 norways-to-show-100-hours-of-chess A newsreader for Norway's state news channel has been banned from wearing a cross on air, after the programme received angry complaints from viewers. https://www.thelocal.no/20131104/norways-nrk-bans-newsreader-from-wearing-a-cross Mon, 04 Nov 2013 12:49:00 +0100 norways-nrk-bans-newsreader-from-wearing-a-cross Norway's National Knitting Evening, broadcast on Friday night, looks set to be a commercial and critical success -- but as a record-breaking feat it was a humiliating failure. https://www.thelocal.no/20131102/knitting-record-bid-ends-in-humiliation Sun, 03 Nov 2013 00:04:00 +0100 knitting-record-bid-ends-in-humiliation