[quote=“MrJ, post:152, topic:117”]
next weeks headlines will be Stephen Rice’s tell all interview.[/quote]
I was joking when I said he might appear on Sunday Night but it might turn out to be true.
60 Minutes: Tara Brown’s job was on the line before only producer Stephen Rice was sacked
NINE Network bosses last week considered terminating up to four senior staff, including star 60 Minutes reporter Tara Brown, the show’s executive producer Kirsty Thomson and the network’s current head of sport Tom Malone, over its now–infamous bungled Beirut child snatching.
Insiders have revealed Nine CEO Hugh Marks had a pivotal phone hook-up with the company’s board — led by its chairman Peter Costello — on Thursday last week to hammer out the network’s response to a scathing report on 60 Minutes’ handling of the affair. The futures of four Nine “names” were under active discussion: Thomson, Malone, Brown and the now-departed 60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice.
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60 Minutes
Sunday 5 June at 8:30 pm
WHO KILLED JOSH?
No one deserves the torment Ingrid Bishop has suffered in the last six years. It started when her son Josh Warneke, 21, was attacked and killed after a night out in Broome. But what compounded this mother’s trauma was the incompetence of the West Australian police. They bungled their investigation for two and a half years before they finally arrested a suspect. Gene Gibson is now in prison for killing Josh Warneke but Ingrid is convinced the evidence against him is so flawed, the police got the wrong man. She’s so sure Gibson didn’t kill her son that she’s now fighting to have him released. But if it wasn’t Gene Gibson, then who killed Josh Warneke?
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Ali Smith
FAST & FABULOUS
It’s not always the case with sports stars, but the hype that goes with the mere mention of Anna Meares is completely justified. Eleven world championships make her the greatest female track cyclist in history. Happily for Australia, but unfortunately for her competitors, she’s not finished yet. Anna’s hard at work preparing for Rio, her fourth Olympic Games. But as you’ll see in our report her exhausting, and exhaustive, training schedule is also a distraction from sadness on the home front: the bust-up of her marriage.
Reporter: Peter Stefanovic
Producer: Rebecca Le Tourneau
BREAKING THE CURSE
Krystal Barter was perfectly healthy when seven years ago she decided to have both her breasts surgically removed at the age of 25. She took the drastic action because her family history meant there was a strong chance she would develop breast cancer later in life. It was a traumatic time but since then Krystal has bravely campaigned to educate women all over the world about this cruel genetic curse. Now there’s someone else she needs to save – her own daughter.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producer: Alice Dalley
60 Minutes
Sunday 12 June at 8:00 pm
OUR HOUSE
These days the great Australian dream of home ownership has been replaced with the great Australian whinge that for most people, it’s no longer possible. What’s left is the great Australian divide between the haves and the have-nots. The reason why buying a home is so expensive seemingly defies the rules of economics, but the reality means it’s cheaper to call Paris or New York home instead of Sydney or Melbourne. Want-to-be home owners might be down, but they’re not out and as you’ll see, there are ways to turn dilemma into opportunity.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producers: Jo Townsend and Sean Power
AMERICAN HERO VILLAIN
As a footballer, there was none better than OJ Simpson. As a human, there aren’t too many worse. It’s more than twenty years since Simpson was famously charged with murdering his former wife Nicole Brown and her friend Ron Goldman. The court case, an eight month spectacle fuelled by the public’s obsession with celebrity, ended with the jury’s surprising ‘not guilty’ verdict. But two years later a civil court decided Simpson was liable for the deaths, and ordered him to pay more than thirty million dollars in compensation. In 2008 OJ Simpson was jailed for 33 years after a botched armed robbery in Las Vegas. The one-time American hero is likely to be paroled next year, which means more torment for the victims’ families.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Phil Goyen
PARENTAL AS ANYTHING
As every mother and father knows, there’s no rulebook for the right way to raise children. Good parenting is just as much about good luck as it is about good management. This week Karl Stefanovic meets parents who pursue a more ‘unconventional’ path to bringing up their children. And while you may not agree with what they do, remember that like the rest of us, they’re as proud and loving of their children as anyone else.
Reporter: Karl Stefanovic
Producer: Jo Townsend
###GOOD COP, BAD COP
A 60 Minutes Special
Tonight (Wednesday) at 7.30pm
A special edition of 60 MINUTES, tonight at 7.30pm on Channel Nine, will reveal the sordid truth about former NSW Detective Roger Rogerson.
Today a jury found 75-year-old Rogerson guilty of murdering 20-year-old university student Jamie Gao. The murder conviction is proof of what many people have long suspected about Roger Rogerson – that he is evil beyond belief.
It’s an enormous fall from grace for the highly decorated one-time star of the New South Wales police force.
In the 1980s Rogerson was viewed as a potential future police commissioner. But it was all a lie. In reality he was a bad cop, as crooked as they come.
For the first time, a former good cop, Mick Drury, reveals all to 60 MINUTES about Rogerson’s involvement in the assassination attempt on him in front of his young family. And Drury’s account of his battle to expose Rogerson’s corrupt ways is just the beginning of the real history of the most notorious rat in police ranks.
60 MINUTES also speaks exclusively to Sascha Huckstepp, the daughter of whistleblower Sallie-Anne Huckstepp who was brutally murdered in 1986.
Just years before her death, Sallie-Anne famously claimed to 60 MINUTES that Rogerson had murdered her boyfriend, Warren Lanfranchi.
Tonight, for the first time, Sascha talks about her belief about Rogerson’s role in her mother’s killing.
60 Minutes
Sunday 19 June at 9:00 pm
KEEP OUT!
What would you do if someone walked into your backyard, dug a big hole and put a fence around it with a sign saying ‘No Trespassing’? In all likelihood you’d shout and scream and call the police. But what if when the police came they threatened to arrest you, not those who wrecked your property and locked you out? In many parts of rural Australia this is the outrageous scenario now playing out between farmers and big gas companies, whose relentless – often ruthless – quest for new sources of gas seems to have no limits. In a special 60 MINUTES investigation, Michael Usher reveals evidence showing the high-pressure, secret tactics used by some gas companies which are driving hard-working country folk from their land. Queensland farmer Kane Booth used to have a multi-million-dollar cattle business until three coal seam gas wells were drilled on his property. He says the wells affected the water supply on his land, rendering it useless for fattening his cattle. He’s now been forced to abandon the property and sell off his herd. Not surprisingly, Kane and his young family are devastated, but have vowed to fight on. However, a similar battle on a neighbouring property has had a tragic outcome. George Bender fought a coal seam gas company for years, blaming it for polluting his property. But it turned out to be a battle of attrition he was never going to win.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producer: Laura Sparkes
TOP PRICE
You have to marvel in awe and wince in pain at Toby Price’s commitment to being the best off-road motorcycle racer in the world. At last count, the 28-year-old daredevil from the Hunter Valley had racked up 27 broken bones. His worst riding injury three years ago fractured vertebrae in his neck, which left him perilously close to becoming a quadriplegic. His mum, Pauline, and dad, John, might disagree, but Toby reckons the rewards of hurtling through the desert at breakneck speeds justify the risks. In January this year he became the first Australian to win the Dakar Rally in South America, the most prestigious and gruelling off-road race in the world. And last week he was at it again, winning the Finke Desert race in outback Australia, for an amazing fifth time.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producers: Nick Greenaway, Chick Davey
News Corp speculating that 60 Minutes could move to 7:30pm Wednesday, so it has a regular timeslot again.
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/nick-tabakoff-60-minutes-could-shift-as-part-of-program-makeover/news-story/6509248e83c50f761f269ecda97a11dc
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A regular tmeslot is definitely needed but I’m not sure about Wednesday.
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Maybe 60 Minutes might rate OK in the 7.30pm Thursday timeslot? Yes, I know that Inside Story has previously aired in the Thursday 7.30pm timeslot and didn’t fare that well, but it’s not as if Nine has much premium content to air at 7.30pm on Thursday nights these days anyway (an unthinkable thought maybe 15-20 years ago, but I digress…) so surely worth a try?
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The Thursday night NRL might be a problem??
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Indeed the program does need a regular timeslot and of course reality shows are the priority nowadays because they rate so well.
But moving the program to during the week could see ratings drop even further,l suppose time will tell if Nine will take this risk.
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Saw a promo for this week’s edition of 60 and they’ve scored an interview with Oscar Pistorius. IF it is actually a 60Mins Australia interview then hopefully it will restore some of its credibility…?
My guess is that it’ll be this
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60 Minutes
Sunday 26 June at 9:00 pm
OSCAR PISTORIUS: THE INTERVIEW
From Paralympian to pariah, Oscar Pistorius is now a shamed figure. On July 6 he will be sentenced for murdering his girlfriend, Reeva Steenkamp. He shot her at his home in South Africa on Valentine’s Day 2013 and then concocted a convoluted story about mistaking her for an intruder hiding in the bathroom. The courts didn’t accept his defence, and he is now facing at least 15 years in prison for the crime. As he waits to hear his fate he has decided to tell his story publicly for the first time. The interview, with British reporter Mark Williams-Thomas, is a macabre and at times graphic insight into the night Reeva was killed. Pistorius explains in excruciating detail his recollection of what happened, and its aftermath. The Blade Runner is both defiant and tearful, but the big question is whether his performance will influence public opinion. Pistorius didn’t seek the court’s permission for the interview, and by doing it he has further outraged Reeva Steenkamp’s grieving family.
Reporter: Mark Williams-Thomas, ITV
DOOMSDAY VAULT
Imagine for a moment if a comet strikes the earth, or a super volcano erupts, blacking out the sun for years. Or worse still, there’s a nuclear war. Only a small number of human beings would survive and they – or hopefully we – would have to be incredibly well prepared for the future. But just how would we restart our lives when the sun shines again? Where would we get the seeds to grow the crops to feed ourselves? Luckily, scientists have been imagining the unimaginable and have built an incredible facility, hidden deep in the remote mountains of the Arctic Circle. Appropriately, it is known as the Doomsday Vault.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Nick Greenaway
Brisbane mother Sally Faulkner and child recovery agent Adam Whittington have been charged with kidnapping, following the 60 Minutes saga in Lebanon. A judge in Beirut has ruled the 60 Minutes team will cop a fine, after their arrest and subsequent release earlier this year.
60 Minutes
Sunday 3 July at 9:00 pm
GREAT WHITE HOPE
The mantra of marine experts is that the risk of being taken by a shark while swimming, surfing or diving is so miniscule it’s not even worth thinking about. But it seems lately the rate of shark attacks has been increasing dramatically. Every new incident, every tragic death or horrific injury, invariably leads to heated debate about the need to cull sharks so humans can be safe in the water. On 60 MINUTES, a breakthrough which could save man and beast – new technology whose makers are confident will keep us apart. But as Ross Coulthart reports, there’s only one way to find out if it really works and that involves getting very close to very large sharks.
Reporter: Ross Coulthart
Producer: Nick Greenaway
NOT SO GREAT BRITAIN
When Britain voted to leave the European Union just days ago the rest of the world was caught completely unaware. Almost immediately, however, the decision assumed the proportions of an ugly divorce as politicians on both sides of the English Channel began bickering about the logistics of how and when to sever ties. Brexit has also created disturbing divisions in England, especially over immigration policy, but as Liz Hayes reports from London, there is one man who could not be happier. Nigel Farage is the leader of the United Kingdom Independence Party and the key architect of the split from Europe. He’s spent the last 17 years working towards this very moment.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Steven Burling
I, ROBOT
Advances in technology mean scientists and engineers have been able to create robots that literally have minds of their own. Liz Hayes meets Sophia, Herb and Baxter, and explains how they’re making our lives easier. These robots work non-stop and never whinge. But perhaps there is too much of a good thing because of a growing risk that these bundles of technological wizardry are becoming too smart for their – and our – own good.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Phil Goyen
ELECTION 2016: THE RESULTS
Charles Wooley reports the latest results from Election 2016, the winners and losers, and assesses where Australia is headed now.
Reporter: Charles Wooley
Producer: Ali Smith
60 Minutes
Sunday 10 July "after The Voice"
GOING FOR BROKE
In the brutal assessments of the election disaster for Malcolm Turnbull, many experts said the Coalition’s proposed changes to the superannuation system cost it desperately needed votes. The Prime Minister and Treasurer had claimed super was becoming a tax rort for the wealthy, and there wasn’t enough benefit for low and middle-income families. But fiddling with the retirement funds of any Australians is sure to raise tempers. And there’s an even bigger problem. Thanks to the new rules, and because we’re all living longer, most retirees will run out of money in their 70s and 80s, just when they need it most. In this special report for 60 MINUTES, the Nine Network Finance Editor, Ross Greenwood, questions the government’s motives in making the changes and says by going for broke, it risks making superannuation even more confusing for all Australians.
Reporter: Ross Greenwood
Producer: Jo Townsend
REBOOT OF THE NERDS
There was a time not so long ago when the geeks at school suffered serious teasing. But these days it’s all changed. Now many students aspire to be nerds. They’re honing their skills in digital technology because they know in the very near future that’s where the important careers – and big money – will be found. In fact almost every job will soon require a substantial degree of digital expertise, including computer programming. Brisbane schoolboy Taj Pabari is a great example of what’s needed and what can be achieved. At just 16, he’s already a businessman, with his own tech company, and an international team working towards a big future.
Reporter: Liz Hayes
Producer: Ali Smith
LOOK WHO’S TALKING
A few weeks ago at the Cincinnati Zoo in the United States a three-year-old boy fell into the gorilla enclosure. A huge silverback appeared to rescue him, but then started to toy with him like a rag doll. Eventually zookeepers shot the animal. It was distressing but they said it was the only way to save the child because they didn’t know the gorilla’s intentions. But what if humans and animals could talk? Well, in another part of the United States a gorilla named Koko has learnt to communicate. It has taken over 40 years of study, but psychologist Penny Patterson is certain Koko now knows language and can create sentences to express feelings and ideas. And as Ross Coulthart reports, Koko the gorilla just might be the most intriguing interview he’s ever done.
Reporter: Ross Coulthart
Producer: Gareth Harvey
REMEMBERING VICTOR
This week marks 25 years since we lost a great Australian. Victor Chang, one of the world’s finest heart surgeons and transplantation pioneers, was senselessly gunned down in a Sydney street, the victim of a botched extortion attempt. But Dr Chang’s extraordinary legacy means lives continue to be saved around Australia.
Reporter: Allison Langdon
Producer: Alice Dalley
60 Minutes will air at 7pm next Sunday night. The timeslot it should hold all year round IMO!
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60 Minutes: ‘Child recovery’ expert Adam Whittington, released on bail
An Australian “child recovery” agent at the centre of a botched plot to kidnap a child for the 60 Minutes program has been granted bail by a Lebanese court.
Adam Whittington’s has been released on bail worth $US20,000 ($26,000) said his Lebanese lawyer Joe Karam.