I’m sure they’ve done that before with past interviews shown again but the interviewer no longer at the network. They wouldn’t be petty enough to cut Alex Cullen from all of it, just because he’s on another network now. They may have new voice overs though to link the segments and make it look new.
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Looks good…
I feel bad for Judith Durham. Since Olivia’s passing, there has been no mention of her despite being such a significant Australian!
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7NEWS Spotlight: Out Of This World
Is the Pentagon keeping real evidence of UFOs a secret?
Keeping secrets from citizens has become a byword for politics today - but hiding the existence of aliens and other life forms might just be the biggest scandal of all time.
On 17 May this year, the US Congress accused its own intelligence leadership at the Pentagon of doing just that, forcing the issue of UFOs out into the open and ordering a series of public hearings into a matter once considered the domain of only kooks and crackpots.
Now, in a brand new 7NEWS Spotlight investigation to air this Sunday, 8.30pm on Channel 7 and 7plus, reporter Ross Coulthart explores what those hearings uncovered and what the findings could mean for life here on earth.
In one of the most gripping programs of the year, Coulthart speaks to university professors and UAP (unidentified aerial phenomena) experts, who explain who was behind the disinformation campaign, deliberately designed to make believers look mad.
Coulthart’s last investigation has been watched by more than 10 million viewers (and counting) on YouTube since airing on 7NEWS Spotlight last year.
This time he sits down with Michio Kaku, an NYU professor and one of the fathers of theoretical physics, who argues the latest findings should set off a new wave of scientific and technological discovery.
Kaku ponders the big issues, including “one of the greatest questions facing the history of the human race: ‘what happens if we make an encounter’?”
He could ask Jim Marlin and Damien Nott, who share their abduction and UAP experiences in mind-boggling detail; while a serving congressman believes there has been a cover-up going right to the top.
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7NEWS Spotlight: Ambush
This Sunday, 8.40pm
A slain cop, his furious wife and the ‘cover up’ she claims tried to bury the truth with him
Senior Constable Brett Forte died in a blaze of gunfire and was hailed a ‘hero’ for protecting his police partner against a crazed killer - sacrificing his life to save hers.
Now, in an explosive 7NEWS Spotlight exclusive, to air 8.40pm this Sunday on Channel 7 and 7plus, his partner with him when he died that day, and his grieving wife put their police careers on the line to blow the whistle on a “broken” culture they claim betrayed him and bullied them.
Following a year-long investigation by reporter Denham Hitchcock, Forte’s furious police officer widow, Susan Forte accuses the Queensland Police Service, along with a coronial inquest into her husband’s 2017 shooting death, of trying everything to silence her about the operational errors she alleges could have saved him.
In a bitter twist of fate, Susan who was the domestic violence liaison officer for Bernadette, the former partner of the gunman Ricky Maddison. It was a violent relationship that culminated in Maddison confronting his ex with a handgun on her front doorstep. It took him to the top of the most wanted list.
Toowoomba police were out in force to find him but, by chance, it was Brett Forte and his partner Catherine Nielsen who were hot on his trail during a highway pursuit that led into the bush.
What they didn’t know was Maddison had planned all along to ambush police with a shocking arsenal, including a fully automatic assault rifle, luring their patrol car along a remote dirt road, where they would be caught in a hail of bullets. Fleeing the scene to a nearby stronghold, the violent and paranoid Maddison would be shot dead by tactical police, after a 21-hour siege.
Leaving behind three children, devastated parents and his heartbroken siblings and friends, Forte’s memory deserves better from a force his loved ones say is now intent on burying its mistakes with him.
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Seven News Spotlight was mentioned in an article in Herald Sun today on Cassie Sainsbury’s return to Adelaide yesterday, after flying from Sydney. She was travelling with her wife and a cameraman.
7NEWS Spotlight: The Confession
This Sunday, 8.40pm
‘Cocaine Cassie’ introduces her new wife to Australia and finally tells the truth about her drug mule disaster
When a South Australian gym bunny turned up in police custody at a Bogota airport in 2017, with six kilograms of drugs in her suitcase, “Cocaine Cassie” Sainsbury would become the stuff of criminal folklore.
Smuggling the banned narcotic in a bag full of headphones she claimed were wedding favours, the blonde bride-to-be was dubbed the new Schapelle Corby, dumped in one of the world’s worst women’s prison and left there to rot.
While her mother, sister and then fiancé Scott pleaded for her release, Sainsbury’s father Stuart has been open about showing his sex worker daughter some tough love; lashing her crime in the press and bad-mouthing her to anyone who’d listen.
Now, after spending three years in El Buen Pastor prison (and another three on parole in the drug capital), Cassie’s come home to give her first real confessional to 7NEWS Spotlight, to air 8.40pm this Sunday on Channel 7 and 7plus .
Admitting she lied in previous interviews, the convicted drug smuggler walks Australia through every step of her criminal activity – and the nation will be gobsmacked by how far she goes.
In an interview full of shocks, award-winning reporter Ross Coulthart calls “Cocaine Cassie” to account and finally gets to the terrible truth of how she played such a dangerous game.
There will be tears, but she’s also got reason to smile, inviting the audience to her beach wedding and sharing a love story like no other.
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I will be interested to see if she really did lie to the country when playing the innocent game for all those years.
7NEWS Spotlight: Who Really Killed Michael Jackson
Sunday 11 September 8:30 PM
A ‘jaw-dropping special’ set to shock the late singer’s fans and the world
7NEWS Spotlight is set to broadcast a blockbuster new investigation into the death of Michael Jackson, which promises to expose the pop icon’s addictions and detail the final months of his controversial life.
Who Really Killed Michael Jackson , which will go to air at 8.40pm this Sunday on Channel 7 and 7plus, has already exploded onto the celebrity news radar ahead of its hotly-anticipated US television screening tomorrow.
The TMZ production deep dives into Dr Conrad Murray’s conviction for Jackson’s death and the expansive universe of perpetrators who contributed to his substance abuse.
The two-hour special will feature a never-before-seen interview with Jackson’s ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, who worked for infamous medico Dr Arnold Klein, who has been accused of being an enabler and unethical physician who fed the singer’s dangerous habit.
While his family and fans thought the Thriller and Bad performer was on top of the world, the program’s executive producer Harvey Levin says Jackson was slowly unravelling in a downward spiral of addiction and despair at the time of his overdose death.
“People assume Dr Conrad Murray was solely responsible for Michael’s death [but] the real story is radically different and shocking,” Levin said.
Hosted by 7NEWS Spotlight’s Michael Usher, the true crime exclusive will see fans walk away knowing the real story of Jackson’s death.
TMZ special airs 6 Sep in US
“Hosted by Michael Usher” is a bit of a joke, it’s a repackaged documentary made by a foreign network.
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Yeah, Most you’ll likely see of Michael Usher is a short intro and perhaps an outro.
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7NEWS Spotlight: Thanks For The Memories
NRL legend Mario Fenech reveals devastating dementia diagnosis in exclusive report this Sunday
It’s crunch time in footy finals, but for rugby league legend Mario Fenech, that time of his life is not even a distant memory – he has little memory of it at all.
In a major 7NEWS Spotlight exclusive, the former Rabbitohs captain opens up to reporter Michael Usher about his devastating diagnosis, 7.00pm* Sunday on Channel 7 and 7plus.
Mario reveals he has early onset dementia, a disease he believes was caused by the numerous concussions and head knocks he suffered during his stellar NRL career.
The 60-year-old’s irreversible condition has now deteriorated to the point where he has virtually no memory left, and it won’t be long before he needs full-time care.
In a confronting interview, Mario is joined by his wife Rebecca, who for the first time speaks out about the diagnosis she calls the “silent, lonely killer”, describing how she and their children, Bonnie and Joe, are coping with the loss of the old Mario.
Also supporting Mario is his best friend of more than 30 years, former world champion boxer Jeff Fenech. Heartbroken by Mario’s decline, in a cruel twist Jeff faces his own battle with concussion trauma following years of punishing blows in the ring.
Neurologist Dr Rowena Mobbs, who leads the team of doctors caring for Jeff and Mario’s brain health, reveals how she is working on ways to safeguard future players from the damaging impact of contact sport.
The Fenech family hopes that by going public for the first time with their alarming revelations, they too can help protect future generations of sports-loving families from the long-term repercussions of head injuries.
Don’t miss this powerful report – 7.00pm* Sunday on Channel 7 and 7plus.
7NEWS Spotlight 7.00pm* Sunday on Channel 7 and 7plus
Sydney, Brisbane
Check schedule for times in AFL markets
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In a related interview in The Sunday Telegraph today, Rebecca said when her husband was on The NRL Footy Show, the program regularly made him the butt of jokes while his memory was starting to deteriorate in front of the nation, and Mario “used to come home pissed off sometimes”.
Isnt this the same story on concussion and dementia that The Project covered twice in a week, a few weeks ago?
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Sorry I can’t remember 
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7NEWS Spotlight: Who Really Killed Michael Jackson
Sunday 2 October 8:40 PM
A ‘jaw-dropping special’ set to shock the late singer’s fans and the world
7NEWS Spotlight is set to broadcast a blockbuster new investigation into the death of Michael Jackson, which promises to expose the pop icon’s addictions and detail the final months of his controversial life.
Who Really Killed Michael Jackson , which will go to air at 8.40pm this Sunday on Channel 7 and 7plus, has already exploded onto the celebrity news radar ahead of its hotly-anticipated US television screening tomorrow.
The TMZ production deep dives into Dr Conrad Murray’s conviction for Jackson’s death and the expansive universe of perpetrators who contributed to his substance abuse.
The two-hour special will feature a never-before-seen interview with Jackson’s ex-wife, Debbie Rowe, who worked for infamous medico Dr Arnold Klein, who has been accused of being an enabler and unethical physician who fed the singer’s dangerous habit.
While his family and fans thought the Thriller and Bad performer was on top of the world, the program’s executive producer Harvey Levin says Jackson was slowly unravelling in a downward spiral of addiction and despair at the time of his overdose death.
“People assume Dr Conrad Murray was solely responsible for Michael’s death [but] the real story is radically different and shocking,” Levin said.
Hosted by 7NEWS Spotlight’s Michael Usher, the true crime exclusive will see fans walk away knowing the real story of Jackson’s death.
TMZ special aired 6 Sep in US, Pre-empted from 11 September.
7NEWS Spotlight: special double investigation
Miracle Mums 8.40pm this Sunday
Australia’s greatest medical mistake laid bare, plus an inside look at sport’s killer concussions
They are a couple who approached IVF not as a last resort, but as the first step in their parenting journey.
Fast forward two years, six rounds, 10 transfers, two chemical pregnancies, countless injections and repeated heartache, Suzie and Laura Francis-Mathers were still unable to conceive.
In an explosive 7NEWS Spotlight investigation airing at 8.40pm this Sunday on Channel 7 and 7plus, Michael Usher takes viewers behind the scenes and into the life of a couple who fell victim to one of the nation’s greatest IVF travesties.
The shocking truth about Melbourne-based Monash IVF’s failings and how the country’s top fertility specialists unintentionally destroyed viable embryos due to flawed genetic screening will be made public in this Australian television exclusive.
Just when all hope was lost, Suzie and Laura defied odds in a moving twist, with both now carrying miracle babies.
Then, Spotlight’s continuing investigation into the biggest issue in Australian Sport sees AFL veterans Shaun Smith and Travis Varcoe share their life-changing, first-hand experiences of brain injury linked to the sport and offer a stark warning for the next wave of potential victims.
Speaking out in full for the first time to Michael Usher, former Melbourne and North Melbourne great Shaun details the emotional turmoil he went through as a result of the concussion injuries he suffered throughout his career.
In a heart-wrenching admission, Shaun explains how the game he loved not only cost him his marriage, but very nearly his life.
In a warning to the rising number of women now powering into punishing elite sports – and the kids striving to be like their idols – American neuroscientist Chris Nowinski calls on Australia to wake up before it’s too late.
With evidence increasingly suggesting women may be more vulnerable to brain injury, he tells Usher: “I’m all for equal opportunity, but equal opportunity for brain disease is not a prize.”
With Australia in the grip of grand finals fever, this compelling report is a timely reminder that our sporting heroes are not invincible and more needs to be done to protect our athletes.
According to The Daily Telegraph, Channel 7 paid Anthony Koletti (the husband of missing fraudster Melissa Caddick) $150,000 for an interview on Seven News Spotlight last year. The interview went on to win the award of Excellence in Journalism at the Kennedys, with a spokeswoman of the Kennedy Awards stating that “news organisations don’t have to provide budgets for exclusive content.” A Channel 7 spokesman said that Seven “complied with all conditions of entry.”
Final episode for the year of 7News Spotlight “The Property Special” is scheduled is Sunday 9 October.