The Local Norway

Wanted: Norwegians willing to have sex on TV

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 19:35:34 +0200

National broadcaster NRK’s P3 channel will be debuting a show in November aimed at giving teenagers a healthier relationship with their own bodies and sexual desires.

Danish 'Skam' fans invade Oslo school in hopes of seeing stars

Mon, 09 Jan 2017 11:39:11 +0100

Just how popular is the Norwegian youth series ‘Skam’ in Denmark? Enough that the Hartvig Nissen school in Oslo that serves as the show’s setting has been overrun by Danish fans.

Hit Norway TV show too risqué for foreign audiences

Thu, 09 Jun 2016 17:21:27 +0200

The online series 'Skam' is a massive success in Norway, but foreign buyers are scared off.

Norway’s Game of Thrones star lands major film role

Fri, 08 Apr 2016 15:10:35 +0200

Kristofer Hivju has joined the cast of the latest edition in the ‘Fast & Furious’ franchise, TheWrap reported.

This Norway mum and son freak out on American TV

Thu, 17 Mar 2016 14:58:01 +0100

It’s difficult to decide what’s more amazing about this video clip from The Ellen DeGeneres Show: Ahmed Valentino Kerigo’s display of physical strength or the bonkers reaction he and his mother have to being invited to Los Angeles to appear live on the popular talk programme.

Norway hopes for first global TV hit with 'Eyewitness'

Wed, 20 Jan 2016 12:25:33 +0100

National broadcaster NRK’s thriller series ‘Øyevitne’ (Eyewitness) has been bought by NBC Universal, marking the first time that a Norwegian drama series will have an American remake.

BBC to shoot docusoap in Arctic Svalbard

Wed, 30 Sep 2015 14:56:32 +0200

BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the UK's national broadcaster, have commissioned a docusoap portraying the life in Longyearbyen, the isolated capital of Norway's Arctic Svalbard archipelago.

Norway inmate hacks TV so can share porn

Mon, 24 Aug 2015 13:05:54 +0200

An inmate at Norway's Halden prison hacked the TV system so he could share pornographic films and secret messages with fellow prisoners.

Norway plans reindeer Slow TV programme

Sat, 08 Aug 2015 01:31:03 +0200

They’ve done the train to Bergen, and the ferry up the west coast, Nor NRK’s is to give another journey its pioneering Slow TV treatment: the reindeer migration.

'Cute' Norwegians flirt with American TV debut

Fri, 26 Jul 2013 13:12:00 +0200

While its Scandinavian neighbours take turns selling violent remakes of Nordic Noir abroad, Norway is poised to add flavour to the global TV listings with an American remake of dysfunctional family drama Koselig med peis.