The future has a habit of sneaking up on us. Annabel Crabb prepares us in season 2 of Tomorrow Tonight
Award-winning journalist and commentator Annabel Crabb hosts the new season of Tomorrow Tonight, returning to ABC TV and ABC iview on Wednesdays at 9pm from 30 March.
This show will ask you to consider challenges that humanity is yet to face. What if science offered you another 50 years of life, starting tomorrow? What if childbirth no longer required a womb? What if you couldn’t lie without being found out?
Over eight entertaining and powerful episodes, comedian Charlie Pickering and lawyer-cum-chef Adam Liaw will be joined by two notable Australians each week, all asked to react to hypothetical scenarios that maybe, just maybe, are heading our way! Guests include Christopher Pyne, Narelda Jacobs, Waleed Aly, Hamish Blake, Jean Kittson, Peter Helliar, Geraldine Hickey and many more! These smart, funny people will unpack these emotionally twisty moral dilemmas and learn more about themselves in the process.
Charlie Pickering says: “I couldn’t be more excited to be back on the desk with Annabel in the host chair, asking the probing questions she’s built a career on. On top of that, there’s the permanent addition of the multi-talented Adam Liaw, who sadly didn’t offer to do any of the catering. As a comedian, the show’s hypotheticals are the perfect opportunity to improvise, and as a producer it’s a format I’m immensely proud of.”
Annabel Crabb says: “I always loved the Carl Reiner line about a brilliant mind in panic being a wonderful thing to see. And the best thing about Tomorrow Tonight is the opportunity to witness quick-minded people coping with moral questions that don’t actually permit a fast, easy answer. It’s fascinating. Once you ask people hard questions, you immediately begin to discover who they are, and every single episode of this show, I found out something truly surprising, intriguing or moving about people I thought I broadly knew.
“It’s not often that as humans we stop what we’re doing, join the dots and ask ourselves the moral questions that are just around the corner. Like: “If we could wipe clean traumatic memories, should we?” or “How will we comprehend truth, once deepfakes are indistinguishable from the real thing?” The fact that we can do it while morally torturing clever, funny, well-known Australians is really just the icing on the cake for me.”
Adam Liaw: “What makes Tomorrow Tonight unique is that it’s possibly the only show on television where people can and do change their minds. In the current environment where opinions all seem pre-packaged for delivery, it’s refreshing to see people actually have to think for themselves.”
