Airdate: The Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury Australia
A 3 hour Slow TV special for SBS is dipped in the chocolate factories of Hobart & Melbourne.
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SlowTV returns to SBS with an Easter special, The Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury Australia.
Produced by Mint Pictures for SBS, this is a 3 hour special dipped in the chocolate factories of Hobart & Melbourne.
SBS Director of Television and Online Content, Marshall Heald, said: “Slow TV is a welcome escape from the noise and drama of the world and this latest incarnation is no exception. The Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury Australia is an outstanding film, a spellbinding visual feast for the senses, the likes of which have never been seen before in Australia. Viewers have warmly embraced this genre beyond our wildest expectations. It offers us an innovative way to explore lesser-known parts of Australia’s history like no one else would. Sit back, relax and enjoy!”
It’s time to immerse yourself in the wonderful, mesmerising world of chocolate as Slow TV returns on SBS with The Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury Australia.
In an Australian television first, this fourth iteration of Slow TV takes viewers from the sugarcane fields of Queensland to a dairy farm in Tasmania before revealing the slow journey of millions of Easter eggs and bunnies inside the Cadbury factories in Hobart and Melbourne.
Like its predecessors, this three-hour visual feast will highlight Australia’s multicultural and Indigenous history with fascinating stories from our past.
Indulge your tastebuds and marvel at the creation of the iconic Easter Egg and Chocolate Bunny, the two best-selling chocolate products in Australia during Easter. In 2020 alone, Cadbury will produce 477 million Easter Eggs and 14 million Chocolate Bunnies, which requires 6,014 tonnes of cocoa, 87 million litres of milk and 54 million kilograms of sugar.
The epic journey begins with two of the core ingredients in chocolate – sugar harvested from the fields of north Queensland and milk from a dairy farm in northwest Tasmania. Then it’s inside the chocolate factory where they are mixed with the third core ingredient – cocoa, imported from Ghana.
Revel in the Willy Wonka-inspired haven of Cadbury’s chocolate factories as the ingredients are slowly transformed into Easter eggs and bunnies in a hypnotic rhythm of melting, rolling, drying, shaping and wrapping before going to market. Sprinkled throughout this visual delight will be enthralling chocolate facts set to a rousing original score by Amanda Brown and Caitlin Yeo.
An innovative style of television which invites the viewer on an immersive journey, Slow TV first originated in Europe. SBS introduced local audiences to the genre in 2018 with The Ghan – Australia’s Greatest Train Journey. Despite some critics labelling it ‘the most boring thing on television’ and ‘a train to nowhere’, it was an SBS ratings hit with 1.75 million viewers* (Combined Metro + Regional).
The Slow Summer series (featuring two new Australian commissions – The Indian Pacific and The Kimberley Cruise) followed in January 2019 and it also captivated viewers with a combined reach of 3.58 million* people across SBS and SBS VICELAND.
Saturday April 11 on SBS at 7:30pm (repeated Sunday April 12 on SBS VICELAND at 3:35pm).
6 Responses
Came across it while browsing, watched it for about 10-15 minutes. Those machines deserve a pay rise.
they do something like this on foxtel called inside the factory showing a wide range of things being made
Just a teensy little bit brand funded, don’t you reckon ?
Maybe, but then that could be said of all of these specials : The Ghan, The Indian Pacific and the Kimberley Cruise are all commercial operations.
It’s the treat that can’t be beat.
This is exactly what we need, looking forward to it