Toisten-TV was a Finnish

Finland

Finland , officially the Republic of Finland, is a Nordic country situated in the Fennoscandian region of Northern Europe. It is bordered by Sweden in the west, Norway in the north and Russia in the east, while Estonia lies to its south across the Gulf of Finland.Around 5.4 million people reside...

 TV show shown on YLE in the early 2000s.

The show, hosted by the German

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

-Finnish Roman Schatz

Roman Schatz

Roman Schatz is a German-born Finnish TV show host and an author. He was born in Western Germany in 1960 and has been living in Helsinki, Finland since 1986. He has appeared on TV in various programs, including his own show Toisten-TV, in international movies Better Than Andy and he has written...

, was a collection of clips from TV shows from foreign TV channels, none of which were available in Finland, some of which weren't even available outside their home country. Each clip lasted about ten to fifteen minutes and had Finnish subtitle

Subtitle (captioning)

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s. Roman Schatz included brief commentary about the current episode between the clips.

A running gag

Running gag

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 on the show was that Roman Schatz always had a suitcase

Suitcase

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 with him, but it was always kept closed. Schatz claimed that the YLE staff had lost the key

Key (lock)

A key is an instrument that is used to operate a lock. A typical key consists of two parts: the blade, which slides into the keyway of the lock and distinguishes between different keys, and the bow, which is left protruding so that torque can be applied by the user. The blade is usually intended to...

to it and thus he could not open it.