Sunday Night: Apr 27

Russell Crowe is a guest reporter on Sunday Night, filing a story on his upcoming movie The Water Diviner, in which Seven West Media is also an investor.

Sinkholes
In some of our major cities, under big population centers… at any time, without warning, the ground just opens up and swallows everything in its way. They’re called sinkholes – and all across the world more and more are claiming houses, whole streets, vehicles… and as Alex Cullen reports – even people. This amazing Sunday Night investigation into this most mysterious phenomenon takes you inside an active sinkhole, captures sinkholes devouring whole buildings, and talks to relatives who have lost loved ones in sinkhole incidents. We travel to the town in America known as the ‘sinkhole capital of the world’ before returning to Australia and witnessing the birth of a new sinkhole. Frightening yet enthralling, you will never trust the ground beneath your feet again.

The Greatest Music Festival on Earth
Five unforgettable days and nights of peace, love and music – Aussie style! The Blues Festival in Byron Bay is universally recognised as one of the greatest music festivals on the planet. And last weekend you could see why. For 25 years, fans of all ages – from seven to 70 years old – have flocked from all around the country to witness something super special. Not since the days of Woodstock have you seen scenes like this. This year reporter Alex Cullen was granted exclusive ‘go anywhere’ access – backstage and front of house, and you will feel like you were there as John Butler, Boz Scaggs, Jack Johnson, John Mayer, Joss Stone, Suzanne Vega and other legendary acts brought the house down. We dare you not to sing along.

Australia’s Most Expensive Family Dinner
The man holding the pan is one of Australia’s top chefs and MKR judge Colin Fassnidge. The woman holding the knife and fork is Catherine Kennedy, a self-made multi-millionaire from the bush. Last month when Colin agreed to auction himself off on Sunday Night to cook dinner at home for ten people to raise money for drought stricken farmers, he never imagined he would be travelling to one of Australia’s most remote locations to fulfill his promise. What he didn’t bargain for is how close the experience came to costing him his life. When Colin went dirt bike riding with his host’s sons and crashed – sending himself flying over the handlebars – everyone held their breath. Catherine paid a whopping $47,000 in total to have Colin cook a family dinner at her modest home. What he cooked and how he came by the ingredients is quite a story you won’t want to miss.

The Water Diviner
When Russell Crowe offered to be a guest reporter on Sunday Night, with the promise of an exclusive look at his next film, we didn’t ask too many questions. His latest project is about as far removed from his recent Hollywood roles as it could be, and it will resonate with Australians more than anything he’s done before. For the first time, Russell is taking the director’s chair for a story he is intent on telling his way — the story of an Australian father who goes to Turkey in search of his three sons who never returned from Gallipoli. Unlike any other project Russell has undertaken, this Anzac Day weekend the Hollywood star joins Sunday Night to take you behind the scenes of The Water Diviner to remind Aussies of the true meaning of ANZAC and the human cost of April 25, 1915.

Sunday, April 27 on Channel Seven at 8pm.