TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2013

05:05 How Do They Do It? 08:20 Sofia The First 05:30 How It’s Made 08:45 Doc McStuffins 06:00 09:05 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 07:00 Mythbusters 09:30 Shake It Up Slow TV casts a spell on 00:20 My Family 07:50 09:55 Austin And Ally 00:50 Blackadder II 08:40 Fast N’ Loud 10:15 A.N.T. Farm 01:20 Eastenders 09:30 Border Security 10:40 Dog With A Blog Norwegian audiences 01:50 Doctors 09:55 Storage Hunters 11:05 Jessie 02:20 David Copperfield 10:20 Flip Men 11:25 Suite Life On Deck ay goodbye to breathless intrigue and dramatic 03:05 Young, Foreign & Over Here 10:45 How Do They Do It? 11:50 Suite Life On Deck twists: “Slow TV” is attracting record audiences in 04:00 Blackadder II 11:10 How It’s Made 12:15 A.N.T. Farm S Norway, with hours, even days, devoted to knit- 11:35 Diamond Divers 12:35 Austin And Ally 04:30 My Family ting, fishing and panoramic landscapes. Public broad- 05:00 Nina And The Neurons 12:25 Bush Pilots 13:00 Shake It Up 05:15 Poetry Pie 13:15 Jungle Gold: Wild Ride 13:25 That’s So Raven caster NRK has replaced some of its usual prime time 05:20 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 14:05 Border Security 13:45 Jessie drama and entertainment with long, lingering images 05:40 Little Human Planet 14:30 Storage Hunters 14:10 Good Luck Charlie of cruise liners touring fjords and hours of crackling log 05:45 Bobinogs 14:55 Flip Men 14:35 Dog With A Blog fires. With up to 134 hours of uninterrupted footage, 05:55 Tweenies 15:20 Alaska: The Last Frontier 15:00 That’s So Raven this snail-paced entertainment has become something 06:15 Nina And The Neurons 16:10 Fast N’ Loud 15:25 Gravity Falls of a Norwegian speciality. “It’s literally reality TV: some- 06:30 Poetry Pie 17:00 Ultimate Survival 15:50 Jessie thing authentic that’s shown in real time without being 16:10 Violetta 06:35 Mr Bloom’s Nursery 17:50 edited down,” said Rune Moeklebust, head of programs 18:40 Mythbusters 17:00 A.N.T. Farm 06:55 Little Human Planet at NRK. 07:00 Bobinogs 19:30 American Guns 17:20 Austin And Ally 07:10 Tweenies 20:20 Storage Hunters 17:45 Gravity Falls The concept was pioneered in 2009, coinciding with 07:30 My Family 20:45 Flip Men 18:10 Shake It Up the centenary of the Bergen railway line. The route 08:00 Blackadder II 21:10 How Do They Do It? 18:30 Good Luck Charlie passes through breathtaking scenery, connecting 08:30 The Weakest Link 21:35 How It’s Made 18:55 Dog With A Blog Norway’s second city with the capital Oslo. The train 09:15 Eastenders 22:00 Get Out Alive With Bear 19:20 Violetta trip-all seven hours and 16 minutes of it-was filmed 09:45 Doctors Grylls 20:05 Jessie with onboard cameras and archive footage was added 10:15 David Copperfield 22:50 (Brazil) 20:30 My Babysitter’s A Vampire to fill in some of the duller moments as the train passed 11:05 Young, Foreign & Over Here 23:40 Car vs Wild 20:50 Good Luck Charlie 21:15 Gravity Falls through long, dark tunnels. The idea was original, easy 11:55 My Family to produce and soon embraced by the public broad- 12:25 Blackadder II 21:40 Shake It Up 12:55 The Weakest Link 22:00 Austin And Ally caster, unconstrained by commercial considerations. 13:40 Eastenders 22:25 A.N.T. Farm It decided to air the experiment on one of its two 14:10 Doctors 22:50 Good Luck Charlie national channels... to a roaring success. About 1.2 mil- 14:40 Young, Foreign & Over Here 00:40 Prank Science 23:10 Wizards Of Waverly Place lion viewers, nearly a quarter of the population of 15:30 David Copperfield 01:05 Prank Science 23:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place Norway, tuned into NRK2 for at least part of the trip. 16:25 The Weakest Link 01:30 “When I asked a few days later if I could borrow the air- 17:10 Eastenders 02:00 Gadget Show - World Tour waves for five and a half days to broadcast live from the 17:40 Doctors 02:25 How Tech Works Coastal Express (a cruise liner touring the Norwegian 18:05 Hustle 02:50 Mighty Ships coast) I was told ‘yes, of course’,” said Moeklebust. 19:00 Last Of The Summer Wine 03:45 Mighty Planes 19:30 Beautiful People 04:35 ‘A chance to contemplate’ 20:00 David Copperfield 05:25 00:15 Food Network’s Christmas 20:45 Victoria Wood - What Larks! 06:15 Gadget Show - World Tour Kitchen The formula, again, was a resounding success — 3.2 21:30 Paradox 06:40 How Tech Works 00:40 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives million television viewers watched parts of the trip as 22:25 Absolutely Fabulous 07:05 X-Machines 01:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives hundreds of onlookers flocked to see the ship in various 22:55 Hustle 08:00 Futurecar 01:30 Heat Seekers ports. Norway’s royal family even featured as Queen 23:45 Last Of The Summer Wine 08:50 Brave New World 01:55 Meat & Potatoes Sonja waved regally from the deck of the royal yacht, as 09:40 Gadget Show - World Tour 02:20 Outrageous Food the two ships crossed paths. The slow-moving saga was 10:05 How Tech Works 02:45 Siba’s Table like a drug for some, including 82-year-old Knut 10:30 Human Body: Ultimate 03:10 Siba’s Table 03:35 Food Network’s Christmas Grimeland stayed glued to his television for days on Machine end. “It’s hard to say how many hours I slept, but not 11:25 X-Machines Kitchen 00:00 Cash In The Attic 12:20 Smash Lab 04:00 Food Network’s Christmas many,” he told NRK. “I dozed a little on the sofa from 00:45 Marbella Mansions 13:10 How The Universe Works Kitchen time to time but I didn’t make it to bed for five days.” 01:30 Come Dine With Me 14:00 Mighty Planes 04:25 Food Wars Others forgot they were not actually on board. 02:20 Masterchef: The Professionals 14:50 Stunt Junkies 04:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives ARCTIC BLAST ON OSN MOVIES ACTION When the Bergen-Oslo train chugged into its final des- 03:10 Celebrity Fantasy Homes 15:20 Gadget Show - World Tour 05:15 United Tastes Of America tination, one viewer said he grabbed the curtains in his 05:40 Chopped 04:00 The Boss Is Coming To Dinner 15:45 How Tech Works 10:30 Coronation Street 05:00 Wreck-It Ralph-PG living room, looking for his suitcase in the train com- 06:30 Iron Chef America Hamper 04:25 Cash In The Attic 16:10 Mighty Ships 12:00 C.S.I. New York 07:00 Arbitrage-PG15 partment. Mesmerising voyages are not the only “slow” 07:10 Food Network Challenge 22:10 Iron Chef America 05:10 The Hairy Bikers Ride Again 17:00 Human Body: Ultimate 14:00 Covert Affairs 09:00 Joyful Noise-PG15 08:00 Unwrapped 23:00 Reza, Spice Prince Of India treats being offered to Norway’s TV audiences. NRK airs 05:40 Bargain Hunt Machine 15:00 Live Good Morning America 11:00 Mary & Martha-PG15 08:25 Unwrapped 23:25 Reza, Spice Prince Of India shows on salmon fishing, knitting , the intricacies of 06:25 Celebrity Fantasy Homes 17:55 X-Machines 17:00 C.S.I. New York 13:00 Perfect Plan-PG15 08:50 United Tastes Of America 23:50 Food Network Challenge making the perfect log fire and many other themes. 07:10 Chef At Home 18:45 Smash Lab 18:00 Covert Affairs 15:00 The Wild Girl-PG15 09:15 Unique Sweets The recipe is simple: a long introduction with historical 07:35 The Boss Is Coming To Dinner 19:35 How The Universe Works 19:00 Castle 16:45 Joyful Noise-PG15 09:40 Kid In A Candy Store 08:00 Bargain Hunt 20:30 Rocket City Rednecks 20:00 C.S.I. New York 18:45 Anna Karenina-PG15 background then an even longer examination of the 10:05 Barefoot Contessa 08:45 Marbella Mansions 20:55 Rocket City Rednecks 21:00 Covert Affairs 21:00 This Is 40-18 activity from beginning to end. 10:30 Food Network Challenge 09:30 The Hairy Bikers Ride Again 21:20 Junkyard Wars 00:00 Don’t Trust The B In 22:00 The Americans 23:00 Abraham Lincoln: Vampire A show on knitting, for example, goes from sheep 11:20 Andy Bates American Street 10:00 The Little Paris Kitchen 22:10 Gadget Show - World Tour Apartment 23 23:00 Scandal Hunter-18 shearing straight through to the final stitch on a 10:25 Hairy Bikers’ Christmas Party 22:35 How Tech Works Feasts 00:30 The Daily Show Global jumper. “Slow TV attracts all categories of the popula- 11:45 Cooking Christmas With Matt 11:15 Come Dine With Me 23:00 Rocket City Rednecks Edition tion: young people intrigued by the novelty and 12:05 Masterchef: The Professionals And Lisa 23:25 Rocket City Rednecks 01:00 The Colbert Report Global strangeness of it, and older viewers who find the topic 12:50 Extreme Makeover: Home 23:50 Stuck With Hackett 12:10 Jeni Barnett’s Christmas Edition Edition Specials Hamper 01:30 South Park 00:00 Devil’s Playground 01:15 The Ugly Duckling In Tales Of or voyage interesting,” said Moeklebust. Some see it as 14:10 Antiques Roadshow 12:35 Reza, Spice Prince Of India 02:00 The Big C 02:00 House Of The Rising Sun Mystery a welcome respite from an increasingly hectic society. 15:05 Holmes On Homes 13:00 Reza’s African Kitchen 02:30 Legit 04:00 Imago Mortis 02:45 The Lucky Dragon “When most stations are opting for the same program 15:55 Holmes On Homes 13:25 Charly’s Cake Angels 03:00 How I Met Your Mother 06:00 Legendary Assassin 04:30 Tommy & Oscar formats, it’s tempting to dive into a niche that goes 16:50 Bargain Hunt 13:50 Siba’s Table 03:30 Go On 08:00 The New Daughter 06:00 The Ugly Duckling In Tales Of against the grain,” said Arve Hjelseth a sociologist at the 17:35 Cash In The Attic 00:00 The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody 14:15 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 04:00 The Simpsons 10:00 Rage Of The Yeti Mystery Norwegian University of Science and Technology in 18:20 Antiques Roadshow 00:20 The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody Basics 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 12:00 Arctic Blast 08:00 Princess Sydney: The Legend Trondheim. 14:40 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 14:00 Iron Sky 19:15 Homes Under The Hammer 00:45 Sonny With A Chance Leno Of The Blue Rabbit “Slow TV is a chance for people to sit down, relax 20:10 The Little Paris Kitchen Basics 16:00 Rage Of The Yeti 01:05 Sonny With A Chance 05:30 The War At Home 09:15 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: and contemplate.” It may, however, take some time 20:35 Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery 15:05 Guy’s Big Bite 06:00 All Of Us 18:00 Batman: The Dark Knight Viva LA Fiesta! 01:30 Suite Life On Deck before the concept takes off elsewhere. When the 21:05 Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery 01:50 Suite Life On Deck 15:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 06:30 Friends Returns Part One 11:15 Home Alone: The Holiday 21:30 Come Dine With Me 02:15 Wizards Of Waverly Place 15:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 20:00 Iron Sky Heist Coastal Express was sold to the US the epic voyage was 22:20 Antiques Roadshow 02:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 16:20 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 08:00 The Simpsons 22:00 Shadow 13:00 Dr Seuss’ Cat In The Hat slimmed down to a one hour show about the Slow TV 23:15 Bargain Hunt 03:00 The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody 16:45 Chopped 08:30 The War At Home 14:30 The Land Before Time concept. And while it may be a smash hit with millions 03:20 The Suite Life Of Zack & Cody 17:30 Barefoot Contessa 09:00 How I Met Your Mother 16:00 The Happets of Norwegians, it’s not to everyone’s liking. “It’s incredi- 03:45 Sonny With A Chance 18:00 Cooking Christmas With Matt 09:30 Two And A Half Men 18:00 Beverly Hills Chihuahua 3: ble that the public can sit and stare at this for hours,” 04:05 Sonny With A Chance And Lisa 10:00 The Mindy Project Viva LA Fiesta! said Trond Blindheim, an outspoken critic and principal 04:30 Suite Life On Deck 18:25 Jeni Barnett’s Christmas 10:30 Friends 20:00 Beethoven Hamper 00:00 House Of The Rising Sun-18 of the Oslo School of Management. 04:50 Suite Life On Deck 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 02:00 Imago Mortis-PG15 22:00 The Land Before Time “Most people watch idiotic TV... I’m literally inca- 18:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives Leno 23:30 The Happets 05:15 Wizards Of Waverly Place 04:00 Legendary Assassin-PG15 pable of saying anything sensible about people who 00:30 Diamond Divers 05:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 19:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 12:00 All Of Us 19:40 Siba’s Table 06:00 The New Daughter-PG15 are glued to TV sets watching the bow of a ship and 01:20 Bush Pilots 06:00 Austin And Ally 12:30 The Simpsons 08:00 Rage Of The Yeti-PG15 02:10 Jungle Gold: Wild Ride 06:25 Austin And Ally 20:05 Charly’s Cake Angels 13:00 The War At Home people on a shore waving their arms about.” But NRK 20:30 Chopped 10:00 Arctic Blast-PG15 03:00 Mythbusters 06:45 A.N.T. Farm 13:30 Friends 00:00 The Scorpion King 3: Battle sees a bright future for the genre and Moeklebust is not 21:20 Cooking Christmas With Matt 12:00 Iron Sky-PG15 03:50 Border Security 07:10 A.N.T. Farm 14:00 Go On For Redemption-PG15 one to put limits on creativity. He is now toying with And Lisa 14:00 Rage Of The Yeti-PG15 04:15 Storage Hunters 07:35 Gravity Falls 14:30 Two And A Half Men 02:00 Pitch Perfect-PG15 the idea of a program dissecting the concept of time 21:45 Jeni Barnett’s Christmas 16:00 Batman: The Dark Knight 04:40 Flip Men 07:55 My Babysitter’s A Vampire 15:00 The Mindy Project Returns Part One-PG15 04:00 Rise Of The Guardians-PG from the making of a clock to, well, just the passing of 15:30 The Daily Show Global 18:00 Iron Sky-PG15 06:00 The Scorpion King 3: Battle time-minute by minute, hour by hour. “When someone Edition 20:00 Shadow-PG15 For Redemption-PG15 tells me you can’t show that on television I take it as a 16:00 The Colbert Report Global 22:00 Immortals-PG15 08:00 Ice Age: Continental Drift-PG sign: it means I’m on to something,” he said. — AFP Edition 10:00 Disturbia-PG15 16:30 All Of Us 12:00 Pitch Perfect-PG15 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 14:00 Shark Tale-PG 18:00 How I Met Your Mother 16:00 Ice Age: Continental Drift-PG 18:30 Melissa & Joey 00:00 The Angel’s Share-PG15 17:45 The Amazing Spider-Man- ‘Downton Abbey’ 19:00 The Crazy Ones 02:00 That’s My Boy-R PG15 19:30 The Mindy Project 04:00 The New Guy-PG15 20:00 Butter-18 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 06:00 Lying To Be Perfect-PG15 22:00 A Dark Truth-18 08:00 Today’s Special-PG15 gets fifth season Leno 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 10:00 I Think I Do-PG15 Stewart 12:00 The New Guy-PG15 he fourth season 21:30 The Colbert Report 14:00 Win A Date With Tad Tof “Downton 22:00 The New Normal Hamilton!-PG 02:00 Top 14 Highlights Abbey” hasn’t 22:30 The Big C 16:00 I Think I Do-PG15 02:30 Trans World Sport even arrived in the 23:00 Legit 18:00 White Chicks-PG15 03:30 Live NHL United States, but a fifth 23:30 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 20:00 American Cowslip-18 06:30 Futbol Mundial season is already on the 22:00 The Angel’s Share-PG15 07:00 Snooker way, PBS announced 11:00 Trans World Sport Sunday. “As American 12:00 International Rugby Union audiences ready them- 00:00 Burn Notice 14:00 Emirates Australian Open selves for the January 01:00 The Blacklist Highlights 5th premiere of Season 02:00 The Newsroom 15:00 PGA European Tour 01:00 Beneath Hill 60-PG15 4, our devoted 03:00 Rescue Me 03:00 Gandhi-PG Highlights 04:00 Revenge 07:00 Virtual Lies-PG15 16:00 Live Snooker Downton fans will rest 05:00 Once Upon A Time 09:00 Beneath Hill 60-PG15 21:00 Futbol Mundial easy knowing that a 06:00 Burn Notice 11:00 Love Finds A Home-PG15 fifth season is on the 07:00 Fairly Legal 13:00 Would Be Kings-PG15 way,” said Masterpiece 08:00 Criminal Minds 15:00 Blue Lagoon: The executive producer 09:00 Revenge Awakening-PG15 Rebecca Eaton. The 10:00 Once Upon A Time 16:45 Here-PG15 00:30 Live Cricket Test Match show’s fourth season 11:00 The Blacklist 19:00 Smashed-PG15 08:30 Futbol Mundial recently completed its 12:00 Emmerdale 21:00 On The Road-R 09:00 Pool Mosconi Cup run in the UK, where it 12:30 Coronation Street 23:15 Pariah-18 13:00 Top 14 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show drew 11.8 million average viewers - making it Britain’s high- 13:30 Futbol Mundial est-rated television drama this year. More than 24 million 14:00 Criminal Minds 14:00 World Match Racing Tour 15:00 Burn Notice 16:00 Trans World Sports viewers watched the third season of the series in the U.S., 16:00 Emmerdale 17:00 Pool Mosconi Cup making it PBS’s most-watched drama ever. 16:30 Coronation Street 21:00 NFL “Like millions of other ‘Downton’ fans, I can’t wait to see 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 01:15 The Inkwell-PG15 23:30 Futbol Mundial what’s next for the Crawley family,” said Paula Kerger, presi- 18:00 Criminal Minds 03:15 Color Of Night-18 dent and CEO of PBS. “We’re proud to be the home of this 19:00 Once Upon A Time 05:15 Freedom Writers-PG15 extraordinarily entertaining series, and, along with our sta- 20:00 Grey’s Anatomy 07:15 Ties That Bind-PG15 21:00 Homeland tions, we look forward to sharing Season 5 with U.S. audi- 09:00 Oscar And Lucinda-PG15 22:00 Hemlock Grove ences.” 11:15 Resistance-PG15 23:00 Rescue Me 02:00 Futbol Mundial Added Gareth Neame, executive producer of “Downton 13:00 Matching Jack-PG15 Abbey” and managing director of Carnival Films: 15:00 A Kiss At Midnight-PG15 02:30 Snooker UK Championship 17:00 Resistance-PG15 06:30 Top 14 Highlights “Audiences have enjoyed their regular Sunday evening vis- 19:00 Caught Inside-PG15 07:00 Golfing World its back to ‘Downton’ once again this autumn and we are 21:00 The Beach-PG15 08:00 Asian Tour Highlights thrilled to produce a new series of the show next year. We 23:00 Suicide Shop-PG15 09:00 PRO 12 promise all the usual highs and lows, romance, drama and 00:00 Covert Affairs 11:00 Top 14 comedy played out by some of the most iconic characters 03:00 Scandal 13:00 Golfing World 14:00 HSBC Sevens World Series on television. All the actors and makers of the show contin- 04:00 The Americans ue to be humbled by the extraordinary audience response 07:00 Emmerdale 17:30 World Match Racing Tour 07:30 Coronation Street 01:00 Another Earth-PG15 19:30 PRO 12 and want to take the show from strength to strength next 09:00 C.S.I. New York 02:45 Snow White And The 21:30 Top 14 Highlights year.” “Downton” will air on Masterpiece on Sundays begin- ANOTHER EARTH ON OSN MOVIES HD 10:00 Emmerdale Huntsman-PG15 22:00 Live Pool Mosconi Cup ning Jan 5 through Feb 23 on PBS. — Reuters