TV2 is celebrating it's 25th anniversary
Prins Joachim til TV 2s jubilæumsshow i aften - Billed Bladet
and on that occasion Joachim will along with the soccer player (from back when it wasn't that depressing to watch the national team...) Preben Elkjær will relieve a number of the major sportsevents from the past 25 years at a major jubilee show tonight. - Which I won't watch because it's a case of let's-pad-each-other-on-back-while-we-agree-on-how-maginficent-we-all-are.
- I, being two-thirds fossilied, can of course remember when TV2 was launched and the difference it actually made.
Before then things were simpler. There was only one network DR1, with one station. The only alternative were for those of us who could watch German and Swedish TV, - very much depending on the reception!
But the next day at work or school or whatever everybody had something to talk about because everybody else had watched the same thing, no matter how silly or boring it was.
My children roll their eyes way back in their heads when I tell them about it. An incomprehensible world to them, just like fixed telephones. A medieval life in their eyes.
Now we have, to quote Dire Straits, 52 channels of sh*t to choose from. What a progress, eh?
A follow up on Joachim's appearance in the TV2 jubille show:
Prins Joachim: Her er mit yndlings-tvprogram - Royale | www.bt.dk
With a nice big pic:
http://www.bt.dk/sites/default/files-dk/node-images/845/6/6845898-tv2s-25-rs-jubilum.jpg
Observe and admire how Joachim, being the perfect gentleman, is not only appropriately but neatly attired.
When Joachim was asked what TV-programme he liked the best, he picked without hestitation (the uncontroversial) The Julekalender.
Every year from 1st December until Christmas Eve, the major networks have a TV-Christmas calendar (julekalender) for children counting down the days to Christmas. There is usually a simple plot evolving around a Christmas theme.
However, the networks also send such a calendar for adults.
The Julekalender being the absolute favorite ever.
The chracters were drawn from a popular trio at the time and centered around three nisser (pixies) who had lived in America for some hundred years, even though they are Danish and as such the speak a kind of Danglish.
Anyway they and a sinister adversary whose intent is to eradicate the pixies end up at an unsuspecting married couple far out in the countryside over here in Jutland, where they grow potatoes. They nailed the couple! I know several such married couples!
This was a comedy full of subtleties, which is of course why it is so pooular to this day. A number of songs from The Julekalender also became hits. Here is one:
Here they are singing the Boot Dance, after enjoing a beer or two:
The Julekalender - Støvledance - YouTube