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Insight: March 16
Next week Insight returns to one of its rare forums with Australian kids, aged 13-25.
No parents allowed – kids from unusual families tell their story.
While the nuclear family is still seen as the norm in Australia, population statistics show that couple families with children are no longer the majority household in Australia.
INSIGHT will hear from young people (between 13 and 25) who have grown up without their mum and dad around. How does their family work? Did they miss out on anything?
Some have two mums or two dads, others …
Insight: March 9
Tusday night’s Insight will look at the contentious issue of rising sea levels.
Hundreds of thousands of residential building across Australia are potentially at risk from sea level rises according to a new report from the Federal Government. Its research states that replacing these homes could cost up to 63 billion dollars.
Scientists can’t agree on the research, and many local councils are asking how are they supposed to plan? All the while local residents are caught in the middle causing them huge financial and emotional strain.
State and local governments have …
Cooking pips cars on Tuesday
Nine might have to rethink its advertisements for Top Gear touting it as Australia’s new #1 show after last night it was pipped by My Kitchen Rules.
It was a line ball tussle but Seven’s cook-off pulled 1.4m viewers ahead of Nine’s first-run roadtest on 1.38m -well down on its season premiere. Both left Bondi Rescue / The Biggest Loser in their wake (934,000 / 774,000).
Nine’s second episode of Top Gear, which had already aired on SBS, slipped to 1.15m behind NCIS on 1.36m but bettered Grey’s Anatomy on 1.04m.
Other networks battles …
Insight: Housing 36 million
This week’s Insight will tackle the question of Australia’s growing population, housing availability and house prices.
The Federal Government’s Intergenerational Report says our population will increase 65% to almost 36 million people by 2050.
From those numbers, Melbourne and Sydney may have to find homes for 7 million people. Brisbane would double its population by 2050.
Australia already suffers from a housing shortage with the government’s National Housing Supply Council estimating a shortfall of more than 200,000 dwellings by 2013. Property developers say this gap will continue to drive up house prices. …
Top Gear drives up 1.68m viewers
Nine’s reputedly big fee in hijacking Top Gear from SBS appears to have paid off with a huge 1.68m viewers tuning in for the new episode last night.
The show was the #1 programme for Tuesday, driving right across My Kitchen Rules (1.21m) and The Biggest Loser / Bondi Rescue (722,000 / 966,000).
With all the advertisements Top Gear fans are questioning whether the episode had been trimmed. The BBC delivers a 52 minute international version to its clients. Nine maintains it didn’t edit the show, but it certainly dumped the credits …
Returning: Dateline, Insight
Two of SBS’ flagship local productions return to screen later this month.
Dateline’s George Negus sits down with Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi, conducting a rare, face-to-face interview for the first episode on Sunday, 21 February at 8.30pm. In recent Gadaffi has sought to build bridges between himself and the West last year signing a declaration, reiterating the importance of countering terrorism in all its forms.
Video journalist David Brill looks at the surreal world of Bagram Air Base, a massive US military compound in Afghanistan, housing 25,000 people. You can see a movie, …
Infidelity: call for forum participants
SBS forum show Insight is looking for Sydney-based participants for a program dealing with Infidelity.
Has Infidelity been an issue in your relationship for either you or your partner? If so, we would love to hear from you. We need you for a studio audience on Monday 8th Feb from 6:30pm – 8:30pm.
The recording would be at the SBS Studios in St Leonards.
If you are interested in participating, please email Jenni.
TV Tonight Awards 2009: The year of Shaun Micallef
The votes are in.
Readers have spoken on their best and worst television for 2009 in the third annual TV Tonight Awards.
The winners: Shaun Micallef, MasterChef and Packed to the Rafters.
Over 1000 surveys were completed this year, and there were some definite trends. Some choices were clear decisions, others were tight races.
Several “winners” were also “losers” elsewhere, showing a divided audience, and a number of populist shows proved their mettle by staying ahead of underdogs.
Shaun Micallef won both Favourite Male and Most Underrated Performer, while Talkin’ ‘Bout Your …
SBS sinks to 3.4%
Tuesday night was a rude awakening for SBS with the network’s nightly share sinking to a disappointing 3.4% (SBS ONE 3.0% and SBS TWO 0.4%). Digital channel GO! was not far behind with 2.3%.
Without Insight to support SBS’ 7:30pm slot East West 101 slipped to just 138,000 viewers. How could it ever compete against Packed to the Rafters and NCIS – the two top shows of the night? Luckily, it will get a repeat screening over summe,
Rafters was again the night’s top show on 1.8m viewers, helping Seven to a 31.8% …
Race that tops the nation
Week 45 saw Seven launch its new digital channel 7TWO with a mix of broad entertainment offering. It addressed the Nine / GO! combo that had upstaged it in the last few months. In sheer audience figures the 2009 Melbourne Cup’s record 2.67m viewers was the week’s top story. It was even Seven’s biggest audience all year. But the real news of the week was actually a lot more humble: the government’s lifeline to Community Television. After a lengthy campaign it will begin to dual-cast on analogue and digital some time …
Variety the spice of Nine’s life
In the week that Seven announced its new digital channel it lost another week to Nine and its GO! channel. Nine’s win included its tribute to a favourite son, Don Lane. On the back of the Hey Hey reunions it was another reminder its audience loves Variety. It was also a week in which the networks trumped one another in the publicity stakes. After the ABC launched ABC3, Seven stole its thunder the next day with 7TWO, which was subsequently trumped that afternoon by Nine winning Top Gear.
The Nine Network won …
Insight: Genetic Testing
This week’s Insight rackles the question: Would you want to know if you were carrying a gene that could kill you?
Once again Jenny Brockie and a studio of guests will tackle a hot topic. Guests for this week include Chairman of Uehiro Practical Ethics at Oxford University, Professor Julian Savulescu, Bio-ethicist Dr Leslie Cannold and Chair of the NHMRC Human Genetics Advisory Committee, Professor Ron Trent.
In Australia, we can now be tested for more than 400 different diseases including hereditary breast and bowel cancer and some forms of Alzheimers.
But some …