If the show is ever to regain its credibility it will need to convince Australia that it has done some deep soul searching and changed a lot about the way they do things. From what Tara Brown has said she still thinks she is the victim and it was the Lebanese that couldn’t see reason.
for 60mins to keep her around would be a huge contradiction.
The Nine Network could be up for millions if sued by the state of Lebanon for compensation
The Nine Network faces being sued for damages by the state of Lebanon under a proposed legal challenge based on apparent confirmation it financed the attempted kidnapping of two children in Beirut.
News Corp Australia has learned legal firms in Australia and Washington have approached a local Lebanese firm to join them in an action being formally put to the Lebanese Ministry of Justice.
[Tara Brown and her 60 Minutes crew could still face kidnapping charge and jail time]
(http://www.couriermail.com.au/entertainment/television/tara-brown-and-her-60-minutes-crew-could-still-face-kidnapping-charge-and-jail-time/news-story/a4eaa62a0dfd73131adb3abbf571e9b7)
Tara Brown and her Channel 9 TV crew may face the same charges as the men they financed to snatch two children off a Beirut street with their files and fate now combined, it has been learnt.
Rice rebuffed “gracious exit”
60 Minutes producer Stephen Rice was offered a “gracious exit” by Nine but declined, according to a media report today. That left Nine CEO Hugh Marks to terminate his contract. There is no let-up in the fiasco embroiling Nine, despite releasing its review findings last week.
I’d think the main reason to reject a ‘gracious exit’ is because it would require signing a non-disclosure. perhaps Rice is not planning on going down without dragging the rest of them with him. next weeks headlines will be Stephen Rice’s tell all interview. (hopefully not paid for).
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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.
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
A regular tmeslot is definitely needed but I’m not sure about Wednesday.
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?
The Thursday night NRL might be a problem??
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.
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
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.