British Airways will lull you to sleep with a seven-hour train video

[Dietrichw]

 

Long-haul passengers on British Airways will soon be able to pick between Hollywood blockbusters and footage from a seven-hour Norwegian train ride. Bloomberg reports that the airline plans to show the long, scenic passage from Bergen to Oslo, Norway on select flights. In the future, the company may also incorporate knitting, bird feeding, and walks in the park into its repertoire. "There’s a hypnotic, calming and entertaining quality to Slow TV that is perfect for in-flight entertainment," says on-board entertainment manager Richard D’Cruze.

 

 

Slow TV is a television genre popularized in Norway, which pivots around minute-to-minute documentation of everyday activities. Originally televised in 2009, the journey along the Bergen Line drew well over a million viewers. Other notable examples of Slow TV include salmon fishing and a cruise voyage that was aired for about five days straight

uhhh what.... 1 million?

I just don't know anymore. Although on my flight from Germany I did watch a documentary on sloths as a bet, it was bad.

 

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[Askew]

Whatever happened to good music?

 

To be honest I'd rather spend the 7 hours looking out of the window into the air, this whole thing reminds me of that scene in FFVIII where you are de-coupling the train that goes on for AGES.

[ViruZ_HUN]

[StingBull]

 

This is good but I prefer the sound of rain. Or vacuum cleaners. Yes seriously, sound of a vacuum cleaner makes me sleepy.

[gill2k]

Does Slow TV also have "paint drying" and "weeds growing"?

 

Flights from here to Asia crossing the Pacific can use this.  Those fourteen hour flights are brutal!

[Dietrichw]

This is good but I prefer the sound of rain. Or vacuum cleaners. Yes seriously, sound of a vacuum cleaner makes me sleepy.

Vacuum cleaners not so much, but things like the humming of the AC or Heater running at night are awesome.

[atomicmonkey101]

This is good but I prefer the sound of rain. Or vacuum cleaners. Yes seriously, sound of a vacuum cleaner makes me sleepy.

 

The sound of impending danger usually makes me fairly sleepy...

[Legion]

Rain beating down on glass and metal is the only thing that helps me sleep. That and Kyeong-Eun noona reading is so relaxing.