#magnus devold

BA, August 19th, 2020

The brothers are seriously getting to know each other in their new TV program. What that is going to be like, they are yet unsure of.

- We don’t really know anything about what this is going to be like yet. But we filmed the title sequence on Monday, and that will be good. So if nothing else, at least we know we have one good thing, Vegard Ylvisåker (41) says over the phone to BA.

Together with little brother Bård (38), Calle Hellevang-Larsen (43) and Magnus Devold (33), he will be on the TV screen this fall with “Ylvis på holmen med Calle og Magnus”.

- It’s the good gang, and we have a mission statement that is sitting down and figuring out what we think is fun. This time we wanted to do like so many others, and have a summer program with thick woolen sweaters, Bård, who is also on the line, says.

Have missed making TV

It has been four years since “I kveld med Ylvis”. Since then, the brothers from Bergen have done “Stories from Norway” and participated in the TV show “Kongen befaler”.

- We don’t necessarily miss being on TV in itself, but we think it’s fun to make TV, Bård says.

In the new TV program, which has several prerecorded segments, the four of them will be rotating the role of host. What happens in each episode, only the host knows.

- It might be absolutely terrible, Bård says, before manager Jørgen Thue cuts in on the call.

- No, no, it’s going to be very good!

Are going under each other’s skin

The series will be recorded in September, which is why they still are a bit unsure of what the whole thing is going be like.

Discovery writes the following about the program in the press release they sent out this week: “Ylvis på holmen med Calle og Magnus gives you all the humor, madness, music, slapstick and unpredictability that follow when Ylvis, Calle and Magnus do what they know best!”

- Is that right?

- Yes, I suppose so, if that’s what they write, Bård says.

- It’s going to be a program where we go under each other’s skin and really get to know each other. It’s the old gang getting together, Vegard says.

- Yes, because you don’t know each other all that well already?

- Vegard to me is a good colleague. I have another brother who I know well and love, but now I’m finally going to get to know Vegard too, Bård says.

As for whether it will be teary as well, the brothers don’t rule it out.

- We’re really going deep!