DR3 wrote TV history on a Monday evening in January when they broadcast live for four hours from a hospital how two men are in labour. Slow TV with the hosts Emil Thorup and Thomas Skov who had electronic pain belts strapped around their waists. Holding a midwife’s hand, the two men went through what is equivalent to a woman’s birth pain. The live event was inspired by a Dutch web video, but DR3 build on the experiment, made it last as long as a real birth, with contractions, waiting, boredom, and extreme pain; unpredictability as a main factor. No one knew where it would end, or how. Would the hosts give up due to the pain? Would their girlfriends intervene and stop the experiment? The second screen experience was one of the strongest ever in Danish broadcasting, consisting of great interactivity with the hosts throughout the evening, and the feeling of ‘being in this together’ with the viewers via Twitter and Facebook.
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