High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Lapland is a BBC Christmas comedy-drama, first broadcast in the United Kingdom on BBC One on 24 December 2011. Although initially a single 75 minute episode which was set in Lapland, Finland, it was announced to having a series, consisting of six 30 minute episodes, due to the success of the single episode, which was viewed by 6.9 million viewers upon its original airing.