Originally, the idea was to produce a heavily edited weekly program, but after some experiments with the employees of the production house, the allure of slow television was discovered and the potential for a daily program was realized.

Carlton Communications P.L.C. said yesterday that its full-year pretax profit rose nearly 20 percent, in line with expectations, after growth in its video and film production and editing units offset slower television broadcasting operating profit.

"Reading Rainbow" doesn't just encourage reading, it slows TV down to the very pace of reading.

Sally Warhaft on "Slow TV"

Instead of slowing TV time down, as "Hill Street" did, and making it resemble novelistic time, a typical episode of "E.R." crams into 48 minutes so much incident and so many people that the effect is a kind of hyper-reality, an adrenaline rush.