CBS Sunday Morning on Slow TV

It's very pleasing to see CBS Sunday Morning's piece on Slow TV go out last weekend, just after Norway's most recent mammoth Slow TV project finished earlier last week. I spoke with a producer at CBS last October as they began planning this segment on Norwegian Slow TV.

The feature piece is available to watch here (opens in a new browser tab). *

If you'd like to see even more about Slow TV I had the good fortune to interview the two producers and academic featured in that CBS piece in a documentary I made in 2014 / 2015, which birthed this Slow TV Blog.

The documentary - "That Damned Cow - Just What is Norwegian Slow TV?" is available to watch on Facebook Video.

There's an independent Slow TV Fans Facebook page, where I'll be doing a Facebook Live questions and answers for any that have them. This will be on Wednesday 10th May, 8pm British Summer Time, 9pm Central European Time, 3pm Eastern US, Noon Western US. That's the best fit to cover as many available time slots as possible!

Any questions in advance, see the currently pinned post there (which will change once we're past the live date), and pop the question there. I'll see what I can do to help and explore answers.

Are you brand new to Slow TV? See this piece on The Slow TV Blog and in particular points 4, 8, 9 and 10!

*I had sought to use the embed code from CBS but it conflicts with blogspot scripts and does not display and function well.

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Channel 4 Scandimania: Norway - feature and interview about Slow TV

In the third of three programs examining Scandinavian culture, traditions and media - the whole Smörgåsbord (or Koldtbord in Norway) if you like, British chef and journalist Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall who wrote and presented the show focuses on Norway. 20 minutes into the documentary he catches up with NRK producer and project leader, Thomas Hellum, appropriately on a train from Bergen.

More from Channel 4 Scandamania here (may be limitations in some countries).

Series producer Stephen Leigh, series produced and directed by Neil Ferguson

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'On The Media' interview with Rune Møklebust about Slow TV

Published in August 2014, 'On The Media' based in New York recorded an interview about Slow TV in the summer of 2013. Conducted by Brooke Gladstone with Rune Møklebust from NRK Bergen, one of the innovators of Slow TV / Minutt for Minutt. The interview is embedded here. Entitled "I want my Slow TV", it makes me think of Dire Strait's 'Money for Nothing' with Sting singing "I want my own TV".

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BBC Radio 4 feature on Slow TV

BBC Radio 4's show "Broadcasting House" carried a short feature in June 2014 following British Airway's announcement of taking up the Bergensbanen Minutt for Minutt Slow TV. It is embedded on the page here.

Slow Television - Musings and Happenings in Slow and Ambient TV

'Broadcast' brief mention in Podcast about Slow TV

Broadcast magazine's podcast show, "Talking TV" #24 eidition briefly mentions Slow TV in reference to the BBC's Emma Willis at Sheffield Documentary Festival in June 2014. Embedded on the page here.

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New Yorker article on Slow TV making waves

The New Yorker's article on Slow TV has been causing ripples and reposts. Good stuff. The Gospel of doing TV differently (not in terms of a replacement but as an alternative) gets pushed out a bit more. Reposted by Katie Couric of YahooNews on her Facebook page. Only 29 likes so far out of 532,219 followers of her page as of this post, but every little counts.

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