TV listings | The news suddenly got interesting

 

For a while now, a TV clip has been doing the rounds in which a disgruntled news anchorman (Jeff Daniels) espouses why America is no longer the greatest country in the world. Sure, it’s a typically overlong speech written by Aaron Sorkin (A Few Good Men, The West Wing etc), the man whose characters mostly tend to be idealistic geniuses who can solve the Enigma Code in the blink of an eyelid. But for once, this three-minute diatribe is right on the money. It’s a brilliantly rhythmical lambasting, and the way it’s gone viral suggests it’s struck a chord across the political spectrum. Why? Because he’s a Republican (you’ll have to see it to appreciate that line). 

 

The Newsroom suffers from plodding romantic subplots, but delivers thanks to the extreme nature of its subject matter: the real-life world in which we live in. Watch it and be hooked from the cool opening credits.  

 

Also outgunning fiction is Chinese Murder Mystery (DR2, Mon 23:10), which documents the alleged murder of a British businessman by the wife of a Chinese mayor, which is according to The Guardian “an extraordinary story” that “would be farcical, laughable even, a kind of ‘Chinese Midsomer Murders’, if there weren’t a real human tragedy at its heart”.

 

Also rather farcical, but without any merits, is Zero Hour (DR3, Thu 21:30), the latest attempt to create the surreal nature of Lost through a mixture of time travel, historical intertwining and general weirdness.  

 

Elsewhere, this week, Alex Polizzi: The Fixer (SVT2, Mon 18:00) sees the badass broad from The Hotel Inspector dishing out advice to families; we learn why the EU gives special trade privileges in Guatemala’s Sweet Deal (BBC World, Sat 12:30 or Sun 22:30); What If? (BBC World, Sat 16:30 or Sun 19:30) is a bit like Tomorrow’s World, but without the feel-good factor that the future is going to be brilliant; Tsunami: The Survivors’ Stories (SVT1, Tue 22:00) is a riveting account of the killer waves that struck Japan in 2011; and there’s a night of new teenage market series making their debuts on K7 on Saturday including the worryingly named Slutever (K7, Sat 22:50). 

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  • Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    Chinese wind turbine companies sign pact to end race-to-the-bottom price war

    China’s 12 leading wind turbine makers have signed a pact to end a domestic price war that has seen turbines sold at below cost price in a race to corner the market and which has compromised quality and earnings in the sector.

  • Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Watch Novo Nordisk’s billion-kroner musical TV ad for Wegovy

    Novo Nordisk’s TV commercial for the slimming drug Wegovy has been shown roughly 32,000 times and reached 8.8 billion US viewers since June.

  • Retention is the new attraction

    Retention is the new attraction

    Many people every year choose to move to Denmark and Denmark in turn spends a lot of money to attract and retain this international talent. Are they staying though? If they leave, do they go home or elsewhere? Looking at raw figures, we can see that Denmark is gradually becoming more international but not everyone is staying. 

  • Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Defence Minister: Great international interest in Danish military technology

    Denmark’s Defence Minister Troels Lund Poulsen attended the Association of the Unites States Army’s annual expo in Washington DC from 14 to 16 October, together with some 20 Danish leading defence companies, where he says Danish drone technology attracted significant attention.

  • Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors request opioids in smaller packs as over-prescription wakes abuse concerns

    Doctors, pharmacies and politicians have voiced concern that the pharmaceutical industry’s inability to supply opioid prescriptions in smaller packets, and the resulting over-prescription of addictive morphine pills, could spur levels of opioid abuse in Denmark.

  • Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Housing in Copenhagen – it runs in the family

    Residents of cooperative housing associations in Copenhagen and in Frederiksberg distribute vacant housing to their own family members to a large extent. More than one in six residents have either parents, siblings, adult children or other close family living in the same cooperative housing association.

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  • Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    Come and join us at Citizens Days!

    On Friday 27 and Saturday 28 of September, The Copenhagen Post will be at International Citizen Days in Øksnehallen on Vesterbro, Copenhagen. Admission is free and thousands of internationals are expected to attend

  • Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Diversifying the Nordics: How a Nigerian economist became a beacon for inclusivity in Scandinavia

    Chisom Udeze, the founder of Diversify – a global organization that works at the intersection of inclusion, democracy, freedom, climate sustainability, justice, and belonging – shares how struggling to find a community in Norway motivated her to build a Nordic-wide professional network. We also hear from Dr. Poornima Luthra, Associate Professor at CBS, about how to address bias in the workplace.

  • Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality launches support package for accompanying spouses

    Lolland Municipality, home to Denmark’s largest infrastructure project – the Fehmarnbelt tunnel connection to Germany – has launched a new jobseeker support package for the accompanying partners of international employees in the area. The job-to-partner package offers free tailored sessions on finding a job and starting a personal business.

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