Norwegian TV is very much like its Swedish counterpart, as I'm sure you know. Plenty documentaries on the state-run channels and the commercial channels are also required by their licensing terms to be more than simply purveyors of brain-dead entertainment. We tend to get a lot of documentaries from the BBC as well as the other British channels, but also material from all over the world. France and Germany regularly comes up with truly excellent documentaries, each often with a different flavour and slant to the British material. Canada too, as taming mentioned, makes some really good stuff.
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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Some documentaries, such as "Forensic Detectives" a while ago are in English with subtitles, but with the English narrator replaced by a Dutch one. (I don't really understand things like that. Why not just subtitle the narrator too?)
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The really strange example, in my view, are British documentaries shown in the US on PBS (elsewhere too maybe, I don't know), which almost always have the original narration track swapped for an American one. The titles are often changed too, so I've often wondered if it's an attempt to pass them off as US-produced programs.