Enter the television Advent calendars! I do not know if countries outside Scandinavia have these kind of shows, but around here they are pretty popluar. Never a Christmas without them. In Norway, we call it Julekalender, which is probably the same as the Danish term. The Swedish term would be Julkalender, and the Finnish is Joulukalenteri, if I’m not entirely mistaken. Scandinavian languages are pretty much alike, with the exeption of Finnish (which is not, by definition, a Scandinavian language. Scandinavia consist only of three countries; Sweden, Norway and Denmark).

Anyway, I was overjoyed when I found out that they were airing a show called The Julekalender on the Norwegian channel TV2 this year. It’s actually been aired a couple of times before too (first time for the Norwegian version in 1994, when I was 5 years old), but I simply love this show.

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