There have been odd goings-on in Lerwick this week - more than usual, I mean. These involved a Norwegian film unit, whose activities have been made even stranger by the cloak of secrecy which has surrounded their enterprise in my town. From little snippets of information I have gleaned from some of my spies, it appears that the project is connected with a television programme whose target audience is mainly young Norwegians. Could it be a Scandinavian version of Hollyoaks?
Whatever the nature of their onscreen output, they caused the main shopping thoroughfare of Lerwick to be closed off for a while on Wednesday (as if the long-suffering pedestrians and motorists needed any more street closures - the town is practically paralysed with roadworks at the moment!). The sign of the iconic Lounge Bar was obliterated with another on which the enigmatic caption "Kim's Bar" was displayed. Who's Kim when she's at home - or more appropriately, abroad?
All appeared to be going swimmingly for this intrepid production team, until the Norwegian sail-training barque "Statsraad Lehmkuhl", carrying about 200 schoolchildren, hove into view and duly tied up at Victoria Pier, a few yards from the film crew's sphere of operations, and spewed her youthful payload into the middle of whatever scene was being filmed. If I know teenagers at all, it wouldn't take them long to fathom out what was going on, thus completely scuppering the best-laid plans of this illustrious OB undertaking.
By the time I arrived, around tea-time, at what I was surprised to observe was Kim's Bar, for my weekly quota of amber nectar, there was no longer any evidence of anything out of the ordinary having taken place, other than the sign itself (which the barman told me he hadn't yet been bothered to take down!). The street had long since been re-opened, and the film crew had, as far as I could gather, left the islands by plane. The "Statsraad Lehmkuhl" sailed in the evening, not to return again until next summer, and this latter-day Viking invasion was at an end. I wonder when the programme goes out - can I get Norwegian TV on my computer?
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1 comment:
Thanks for an interesting update about the filming in Lerwick. They were shooting scenes there for the third season of the Norwegian family-drama series "Himmelblå", which was produced by Norwegian national broadcaster NRK. The secrecy surrounding the set was due to the fact that a main character named Kim was missing since the end of season 2, and viewers were kept in the dark as to whether he was still alive or not. Clues indicated that he had perhaps arrived in Shetland. Himmelblå is based on a BBC production named "Two thousand acres of sky". The scenes from Shetland are found in episodes 6 and 7 of the third season of Himmelblå. More information can be found on NRK's website: http://www.nrk.no/himmelbla. Greetings from Norway.
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