Norway plans 12-hour prime-time TV show of a fireplace
By Balazs Koranyi
OSLO | Fri Feb 15, 2013 11:20am EST
(Reuters) - Norwegian public television plans to broadcast a burning fireplace for 12 straight hours from Friday evening, with firewood specialists providing color commentary, expert advice and a bit of cultural tutoring.
"We'll talk about the very nerdy subjects like burning, slicing and stacking the wood, but we'll also have cultural segments with music and poems," Rune Moeklebust, a producer for state broadcaster NRK.
"It will be very slow but noble television."
Moeklebust got the idea for the show from the wild success of a firewood book by Lars Mytting, Norway's biggest firewood celebrity. His book "Hel Ved", which means Strong Character in English, is a play on words because ved also means "firewood".
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I would probably call this show "Norwegian Wood". 
In my family. We never watched tv on Christmas, just the log. And when I moved out of state, my mom sent me a DVD of the log channel for a present. It's a tradition 
