SBS TO BORE ITS VIEWERS YET A-GHAN
SBS has created the ultimate cure to insomnia after announcing plans to broadcast 17 hours of raw footage from the window of a train travelling through the Australian outback.
Subjecting viewers to a mind-numbing three hours of tedium wasn’t enough for the taxpayer funded network which now plans to release the extended director’s cut of The Ghan: Australia’s Greatest Train Journey.
The original – which was described as more boring than actual outback travel – showed the sleep-inducing view from the front of a train travelling 3000km from Adelaide to Darwin.
Bizarrely, and perhaps a shocking indictment of usual broadcasting, SBS claims the snore-fest was its most watched program the last year.
“SBS got the nation talking, trending nationally on social media, and recorded an average of 583,000 viewers in metro and regional markets throughout the three hour program, making this the highest performing SBS program in the past 12 months,” the network said.
Instead of taking the ratings win, the network has decided to air the entire trip on SBS Viceland this Sunday.