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A taste of Slow TV’s The Chocolate Factory

Pouring chocolate, pouring chocolate, pouring chocolate.....

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3 hour Slow TV special The Chocolate Factory: Inside Cadbury Australia premieres this Saturday on SBS.

I’m not sure if the idea of watching pouring chocolate is going to be as mesmerizing as the landscapes seen on previous Slow TV outings.

But I’m assured it also includes drone shots in Mackay of the cane fields and the entire journey of the chocolate from the sugarcane fields of Queensland to the dairy farms in Tasmania, before heading to the factories.

Ironically it will screen against Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory on Seven and Charlie And The Chocolate Factory on Nine.

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).

7:30pm Saturday April 11 on SBS.

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  2. SBS should put the full versions of the previous slow TV………perfect opportunity for everyone to watch the full version, in particular the Ghan. Please SBS!

  3. It seems like a deviation from the traditional scenery and travel Slow TV productions that I prefer to see. I remember the BBC documentary Inside the Factory that featured a Kit Kat factory in the UK and it was very insightful to see the factory processes and works of an unfamiliar industry to me, from harvest to production, though it wasn’t Slow TV. But too much chocolate, such as in the preview is too overindulgent and excessive for me, as I learned from past Easters.

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