Etaten (Scripted, Norwegian)
Genres: Comedy
Status: Ended
Premiered: 2006-09-14
Ended: 2006-11-02
Network: NRK1
Country: NO
Airs on: Thursday
Air time: 22:30
Runtime: 30 minutes
Etaten is a Norwegian comedy series. The series is built around Atle Antonsen in the role of a delayed head of department in the Planning and Building Agency. The series received its inspiration from the Planning and Building Agency in Ullensaker municipality.The series is a fictional documentary and a parody of public bureaucracy and case processing, where a series of conversions and everyday problems create a very inefficient and little customer-friendly "service". In this way, the agency has many similarities to the British series The Office.