Name: 【TED】Thomas Hellum: The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive (Thomas Hellum: The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive)
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To-infinitive

to explain something that lasts for hours and days,

Let's start with a clip from Al Jazeera's Listening Post.

Richard Gizbert: Norway is a country that gets relatively little media coverage.

Even the elections this past week passed without much drama.

And that's the Norwegian media in a nutshell:

decided to broadcast live coverage of a seven-hour train ride --

Norwegians, more than a million of them according to the ratings, loved it.

and it goes against all the rules of TV engagement.

Norwegians have been watching a cruise ship's journey up the coast,

Executives at Norway's National Broadcasting Service

are now considering broadcasting a night of knitting nationwide.

So we sent the Listening Post's Marcela Pizarro to Oslo

to find out what it is, but first a warning:

Viewers may find some of the images in the following report disappointing.

Thomas Hellum: And then follows an eight-minute story on Al Jazeera

about some strange TV programs in little Norway.

when one of my colleagues got a great idea.

So he said, why don't we make a radio program

marking the day of the German invasion of Norway in 1940.

We tell the story at the exact time during the night.

this was just a couple of weeks before the invasion day.

what other stories can you tell as they evolve?

What other things take a really long time?

The Bergen Railway had its 100-year anniversary that year

It goes from western Norway to eastern Norway,

and it takes exactly the same time as it did 40 years ago,

So we caught our commissioning editors in Oslo, and we said,

we want to make a documentary about the Bergen Railway,

Luckily for us, they met us with laughter, very, very good laughter,

we started a program that we thought should be seven hours and four minutes.

Actually, it turned out to be seven hours and 14 minutes

due to a signal failure at the last station.

three of them pointing out to the beautiful nature.

Some talking to the guests, some information.

(Video) Train announcement: We will arrive at Haugastøl Station.

the 160 tunnels gave us the opportunity to do some archives.

Narrator [in Norwegian]: Then a bit of flirting while the food is digested.

The last downhill stretch before we reach our destination.

TH: And now we thought, yes, we have a brilliant program.

It will fit for the 2,000 train spotters in Norway.

This is the five biggest TV channels in Norway on a normal Friday,

look what happened when they put on the Bergen Railway show:

1.2 million Norwegians watched part of this program.

the train has now nearly reached Myrdal station."

Thousands of people just jumped on the train

on our second channel like this. (Laughter)

This was also a huge success in terms of social media.

It was so nice to see all the thousands of Facebook and Twitter users

talking to each other as if they were on the same train together.

And especially, I like this one. It's a 76-year-old man.

【TED】Thomas Hellum: The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive (Thomas Hellum: The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive)

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【TED】Thomas Hellum: The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive (Thomas Hellum: The world's most boring television ... and why it's hilariously addictive)

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