SBS VICELAND to screen 13 hour marathon of Fifth Element
One movie in a 13 hour loop?
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On Sunday SBS VICELAND will screen 1997 Bruce Willis movie The Fifth Element in back to back screenings clocking in at over 13 hours.
Beginning from 12 midday, it forms part of a “5th of the 5th” event but takes block repeat programming to a whole new level.
It comes at a time when lobby group Save Our SBS has called for a dedicated foreign language channel and rival networks accuse the broadcaster of straying too far off Charter.
Sources suggest the film has been the channel’s most watched film, and the marathon is offered as a Slow TV experiment.
On the question of being off-Charter, The Fifth Element is an English-language French sci-fi.
A recent government inquiry cleared the broadcaster of content being off Charter but conceded almost anything could be found to meet those requirements, with some interpretation.
SBS claims it is currently experiencing its most successful year in the multichannel’s decade as SBS 2 / SBS VICELAND.
10 Responses
Did I miss something…..I mean why put the same movie on rotation “Whats the deal” how ficking boring. Yes this movie made in 1997 was fantastic & still is but why why 13 hrs? So ridicules
Marathon?
Best described as a moronathon!
Ironically, the post before this is of Dawn French’s 30 Million Minutes special (https://tvtonight.com.au/2019/05/airdate-dawn-french-30-million-minutes.html). Now imagine if that actually went for 30 million minutes 😛
Would’ve been so much better if they’d released this information a month earlier…
A French film?-does that make ‘Speed’ a Dutch film? I would also like to see the evidence that this is their “most popular movie” as it wasn’t all that successful a release at the time in the ’90s. Again, where are the adults at SBS to say no to such nonsense!
The production company behind the film (Gaumont) was French and presumably with a French producer and director, most of the film financing came from France.
In English with a native English speaking cast (apart from Mila J who’s Ukrainian but only acts in English), filmed at British studios and mostly UK locations.
Sounds similar to those Australian part-financed TV shows that are filmed in NZ with (mostly) NZ actors and NZ crew
Nobody here but us meat popsicles…
This is great – cannot get sick of this movie.
Another binge suggestion: repeat the entire series of Liquid Television.