Strap In, The Full 17-Hour Version Of ‘The Ghan’ Is Coming To SBS This Sunday
If you need slow train content before then, try travelling with Sydney Trains.
All aboard — the extended 17 hour cut of SBS’s smash-hit Slow TV doco The Ghan is coming to TV this Sunday, guaranteeing us all a blissful day of feeling like we’re going somewhere in life!
The 17 hour version comes after the three hour version broadcast last weekend attracted over 400,000 viewers, cementing it as SBS’s highest-performing program of the past 12 months. People can’t get enough of this largely silent video of a train slowly making its way from Adelaide to Darwin, in what viewers have praised as Gold Logie-worthy, “like soul medicine”, and similar to an “unusually informative acid trip”.
According to SBS, the 17 hour broadcast will begin at 2:40am on Sunday and continue through until 8:30pm, with the occasional ad break for those who anticipate they’ll need to pee during that time.
Unrelated question: Can a train win Best New Talent at The Logies? #TheGhan
— Mel L (@mel_laah) January 7, 2018
17 hours. 1 train. All day Sunday.#TheGhan pic.twitter.com/Nn2rkpDgir
— SBS VICELAND (@SBSVICELAND) January 10, 2018
So if you need to get your life on track, cancel your Sunday plans and get ready to be transported. If you already caught the three hour version, there’s no reason not to watch it a-Ghan.
Meanwhile, if you absolutely can’t wait until the weekend for your slow train content, try travelling with Sydney Trains.