Norway: The Musical

Oops, it's a drama

From Oil & Gas Links:
Oil manufacture drama debuts inwards Cannes 

Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 novel dramatic version of how Norway’s stone oil manufacture began was making its debut on Tuesday at the first Cannes International Series Festival. The novel Norwegian serial is the biggest TV drama ever produced inwards Norway, based on events that also changed the patch forever.

Called Lykkeland (State of Happiness for its unusual audience), the serial starts inwards the summertime of 1969 inwards the then-financially struggling coastal town of Stavanger. The start viii episodes rail how the uncovering of stone oil in addition to the lighting of a gas flare correct at Christmastime fueled major personal, social in addition to political changes during the adjacent 3 years until Norway’s state-controlled stone oil society Statoil was founded inwards 1972. Those changes bring been going on ever since.

The serial won’t start running on Norwegian Broadcasting (NRK) until this fall. The start ii episodes, however, are premiering inwards Cannes later the serial was chosen to compete along with ix others from unopen to the world. Organizers claim their start Cannes International Series Festival is meant “to give an international vox to this increasingly pop in addition to fiercely creative novel fine art form.” The festival is also taking house amongst the major TV manufacture conference MIPTV this week, adding to its international exposure.

Lykkeland (State of Happiness), produced for NRK past times Maipo Film of Norway, received the lion’s percentage of fiscal back upwards inwards 2016 from the Norwegian Film Institute, amounting to to a greater extent than than 10 per centum of its total budget of nearly NOK 100 1000000 (USD 13 million). That makes it the close expensive drama serial ever, with top Norwegian film- in addition to TV-industry figures behind it.

It’s directed, for example, past times Petter Næss, whose classic celluloid Elling was nominated for an Oscar equally Best Foreign-Language Feature. The screenwriter is Mette M Bølstad, who’s also had success with the serial Nobel in addition to Kampen om tungtvannet (Heavy Water War)....MORE

If that sets your pump racing a fleck also fast there's ever Norway's gift to the amusement world: Slow TV.
Beginning with the groundbreaking develop trip from Bergen to Oslo—put cameras on train, celluloid passing scenery for 7 hours—a quarter of the province tuned inwards (and right away on Netflix), to 13 hours of knitting to an epic 134-hour-long cruise voyage, Slow TV is the perfect antidote to the hurly-burly of Stavanger in addition to the North Sea Oil biz.

Oh, in addition to if yous don't subscribe to Netflix here's the develop trip via YouTube (running fourth dimension 7:14:14)
Bergensbanen minutt for minutt 

Additionally, "National Knitting Night":

was followed past times the sequels

• National Knitting Evening
• National Knitting Morning

because, equally Rune Moklebust, ane of the the producers said:

"Well, it has to last unique -- non a re-create of the end one,"
"So nosotros bring to force the boundaries for each show, I think."

We'll last dorsum with eighteen hours of salmon swimming upstream if I tin notice it.