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Since 2009 Norwegian public broadcaster NRK has been
experimenting with live, slow-paced programmers, variously
broadcasting a seven-hour train journey across Norway from east
to west, a six-day trip by cruise ship from south to north or
how to knit, starting with shearing a sheep.
Other countries have done similar things. Britain, for example,
experimented with a narrow boat trip along a canal and a sleigh
ride.
The shows have been hits with viewers in Norway, so its latest
idea is to live broadcast the world's strongest tidal current,
called Saltstraumen, near the city of Bodoe some 80 km (50
miles) north of the Arctic Circle.
"People will experience the calm of watching the current," said
Gisle Forland, one of the two presenters of the show, due to be
broadcast on May 20 from midday to midnight.
"It will be in the same style as the other (slow TV shows). We
will show the nature, with the camera rolling and a little
music, and people who tell about the history, the geology and
the nature of Saltstraumen," he told Reuters.
Saltstraumen is a narrow strait linking two fjords where sea
water can stream through at a speed of up to 40 km (25 miles)
per hour, creating maelstroms famed at least since Viking times.
Lights, camera - not much action.
(Editing by Jeremy Gaunt)
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