Roll out the lefse dough, soak the cod and gather your single Norwegian-American friends. A potential trans-Atlantic love match is afoot.

Producers creating a Norwegian reality television show will be in Las Vegas to meet Norwegian-Americans interested in dating singles from Norway. They'll lunch at The Beat coffee shop, attend the annual Sons of Norway Vegas Viking holiday bazaar, where a sizable chunk of the local Norwegian-American community will shop for Scandinavian decor, knickknacks and home-baked goods, and watch the Sin City Rollergirls. Organizers are hoping for a good turnout to help put Las Vegas on Norwegian television.

“At this stage, they haven’t figured out what cities they’re doing this in,” says Erik Pappa, president of the Sons of Norway Vegas Viking lodge and contact person for the producers. “There are 30,000 Norwegian-Americans in the Las Vegas Metropolitan Area. They need at least one.”

Las Vegas doesn’t exactly scream Norwegian heritage, but apparently it’s more exciting than cities with larger Norwegian-American enclaves.

“We recognize that Las Vegas is not Minneapolis or North Dakota, where Norwegian roots run deep,” says producer Per Jørgen “PJ” Østby. “But the Norwegian community in Vegas has a vitality all its own, one that audiences in Norway would be interested in learning about. After all, everyone loves Las Vegas."

Local Norwegian-Americans are encouraged to attend the bazaar Nov. 13 and meet at the Beat coffee shop Downtown for lunch on Nov. 12 with the producers.

The show is about not just dating, but also what makes a Norwegian-American community and how Norwegian-Americans show appreciation for their heritage.

Las Vegas is home to two Sons of Norway lodges, meaning two lutefisk dinners a year. Vegas Viking has a Viking ship float that wheels through many a local parade, and it is a staunch supporter of other local Norwegian-Americans, including the Sin City Rollergirl, Katie Claessens (aka The Force) who will be skating Saturday at the Riviera. The community also surfaces for gatherings of national heritage. Recently, Vegas Viking lodge elevated its profile nationally after being featured in the national Sons of Norway magazine, Viking.

So what percentage Norwegian do you need to be for the show?

“They haven’t said, so I don’t think it matters,” says Pappa. “The important thing is that you value your Norwegian heritage.”