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[oneiriad]

It is probably my inner child that makes me watch the television christmas calender series every year in december, but so what? I like christmas calenders - well, most of them, anyway. Some of them are horrible - det rene makværk - and unfortunately one of this year´s, "Jul på Kronborg" (Christmas at Kronborg Castle) are exactly that (both of the two christmas calenders this year are reruns, which I do not mind, although I would have chosen others than the people handling it has), but the other one, "Alle tiders jul", (either A wonderful christmas or Christmas of all times - either fits, actually) is pretty good, and I think I will enjoy 24 days of getting reacquinted with the two nisser Guthenborg and Pyrus, and the rest of the cast. After all, it somehow doesn´t feel like christmas without a good christmas calender...

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[juliet-whisky.livejournal.com]

What is a television christmas calendar? I thought a calendar was something you hung on your wall and flipped a page over every month so you could tell what day it is. Please explain? Is it like a countdown to Christmas thing?

[oneiriad.livejournal.com]

Christmas calenders are countdowns to christmas eve, whether they come in the form of a cardboard calender with a piece of chocolate inside for every day that passes, or in the form of the television christmas calenders that Danish television shows every december. They are television series, always exactly 24 episodes long, where you get an episode every day, and which tells a story - usually involving christmas being endangered in some way (whether it is because someone has accidentally cast a spell to make christmas disappear, or the ship that was supposed to bring christmas stuff to the town has been lost so the grown-ups have cancelled christmas, or some other reason) and usually, though not always, involving nisser. Most of the series made over the years are for children, though a few are specifically for adults, and most can be enjoyed by all. And of course, on the 24th everything is always resolved and everybody is happy halfway through the episode so that they have time to celebrate christmas eve properly :-)

[juliet-whisky.livejournal.com]

Thats a very cute christmassy idea. I've never heard of that before (the tv calendar that is).
Thanks, I was very curious!