1 thought on “TelevisionAU Update 10-May-10”

1. …hmm, IIRC, SBS once screened an eight-hour epic on the Holocaust. I remember seeing David Stratton introducing it in a clip from the 20th anniversary special – haven't actually seen the film in question. One epic film I do recall seeing (or, at least parts of it) on SBS, however, was in 1993, when they screened Edgar Reitz's 26-hour behemoth “Die Zweite Heimat” (The Second Homeland). Thankfully, they screened it as a twelve-part mini-series (two hours each episode), although the fair citizens of Munich who attended the premiere in 1992 weren't so lucky – they had to sit through the whole thing in one sitting!

   I mean, the reason *why* Marg Downey's infamous continuity announcer character from “Fast Forward” with her monotone introductions to twelve-hour epics from Turkmenistan about local cheese-rolling festivals and the like is so uproariously funny is that it's grounded in reality – at least, the reality of the SBS that once was (kids these days totally wouldn't get her character since today's SBS is barely recognisable compared to twenty years ago).

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