15 minutes. So long – or almost historic short – is the 24 section of this year’s advent calendar on DR1, if you peel away all the filler and time wasted away.
Between 600,000 and small 800.000 danes are sitting each evening ready with the brunkager and candy in front of the screen at 19.30 to follow in ‘Theo and the magic talisman’, as the highly ‘Narnia’-inspired advent calendar called.
then, When the final DR1 kicks off the story of Theo and his grandfather, being patience is really put to the test.
First there comes over a minute long summary of the plot, and then boom Mads Langers theme song out of the tv speakers in just about a minute and 40 seconds.
After the right in the vicinity of the 15-minute real advent calendar is over, and DR displays a teaser to fill the time out to the next program.
The ultra short calendar has been noticed by the viewers. On the Dr Facebook page and wonder why several of they are eaten with so few minutes of real content.
‘But why only 15 min. Thought, as a minimum, it was 20-25 min’, writes Kenneth Skibsted.
Also Sannah Schou have noticed the short time.
‘Hold up, where is DR1 ‘skilled’ 🙁 15 minute kid’s advent calendar. It is the end before it really begins. Hope so that the children do not become disappointed over the in spite of the minimal transmission time’, she writes, among other things.
Anders B. Pedersen also believes that the ‘Theo and the magic talismand’ is a short pleasure.
‘Measly 17 minutes long atsnit.. WHAT HAPPENS JUST FOR YOU ??? Pulls you introsang and credits from so we end up at 14-15 min. It was good enough not long it lasted. But we peeps with in the morning also and hope it is longer in the morning’, he writes.
Theo and his orphan friend Simone. The roles played by Kian Lawson-Khalili and Safina Coster-Waldau. Photo: Ulrik Boel Bentzen/DR
Viewers ‘ perception that the society is unusually short is completely correct, Svend-Vilhelm Mikkelsen. He is a journalist and so big christmas fan, he has his own website about the christmas and julekalendere.
Both numbers from danskfilmogtv.dk and his own count shows that the ‘Theo and the magic talisman’ is significantly shorter than previous DR-julekalendere.
– 2006: average length pr. title: 25,6 minutes
2009: the average length pr. section: 26.3 of minutes
– 2012: the average length pr. title: 24 minutes
– 2014: the average length pr. title: 24,5 minutes
2016: average length pr. title: 25 minutes
– I guess that it has nothing with economy to do. If you make each section is five minutes shorter, then you have to make a total of 120 minutes of less advent calendar during december. It is similar to the an entire feature film, so it is a lot of money to save, says Svend-Vilhelm Mikkelsen, driver ago juleweb.dk.
– In the 00’s made the DR is only a new advent calendar every third year, but since 2012 they started to make a new advent calendar every other year, and it is clear that it costs more money, he says.
Svend-Vilhelm Mikkelsen also points to the action in ‘Theo and the magic talisman’ may not have been strong enough to be able to keep the viewers glued to the screen for 25 minutes, and that he has according to the show’s lead author and director, Peter Gornstein fat in something.
– We have made a modern fairy-tale, and we have made it in exactly the right length, as we think fit, he says to Ekstra Bladet.
‘Theo and The Magic Talisman’ – with the resume and song
Paragraph 1: 18 minutes
Section 2: 20 minutes
Section 3: 19 minutes
Section 4: 18 minutes
Section 5: 21 minutes
Section 6: 21 minutes
Section 7: 19 minutes
Section 8: 18 minutes
Section 9: 18 minutes
Section 10: 19 minutes
Average: 19 minutes
The Other World (2016) – with the resume and song
Paragraph 1: 25 minutes
Section: 2: 26 minutes
Section 3: 23 minutes
Section 4: 27 minutes
Section 5: 22 minutes
Section 6: 25 minutes
Section 7: 25 minutes
Section 8: 27 minutes
Title 9: 26 minutes
Section 10: 24 minutes
Average: 25 minutes
Source: juleweb.dk
He points out that the sections vary in length from day to day.
– We have chosen to divide the sections, where the narrative makes the most sense, and it gives a variation in the length, he says.
– Could have stretched the story out over a few more minutes?
– We could easily have made a longer advent calendar this year, but we have chosen to make a fast-paced tale. We have priority, that it should be exciting from start to finish, and there is no tomgangsepisoder, says the lead author, who does not have anything with the economy behind the ‘Theo and the magic talisman’ to do.
the Decision to make the short sharp section is Svend-Vilhelm Mikkelsen satisfied with.
– Personally, I would rather have a shorter title and so a new advent calendar something more, he says.
DR: It is no exercise in cutting expenditures
At the DR rejects the, to the short temper is a part of an exercise in cutting expenditures.
‘The total price on an advent calendar has not necessarily anything to do with how long each section lasts. The price depends on how it is produced, where it is recorded which effects are present, how many actors etc. Theo & The Magic Talisman is planned long before the DR knew his current economic situation, and therefore, it has nothing whatsoever to do with future savings. In addition, large screen tv-drama-series under all circumstances one of the areas not hit hard by the savings in the coming years’, says in a written response from Lars Fredenslund Høgsberg, who is vice president in the Media.
‘Theo & The Magic Talismand is first and foremost a modern eventyrfortælling, and in it is that everything does not need to be, as it usually is. We have decided to make a series that should be as strong dramaturigsk as possible. And it can vijo look at the viewing figures and streamingtallene, that the people have acknowledged’, says the forward from Lars Fredenslund Høgsberg.
