The period feel of the piece is masterfully done, a filter giving it a dingy look that accentuates the browns, beiges and dirty greens of the spot-on decor and fashions. HIs relationship with Helen evolves in tandem with his career: both turn him on.
But it’s a precarious position, too, leaving him open to colleagues’ jibes, and worse. When their relationship deepens, he boosts his status in the office. He idolises Helen, whose off-screen problems he is soon caught up in.
He has a messy tryout and is mostly still deployed as a junior producer of special reports but like Geoff he aims for substance in his pitches to Lindsay and ends up being assigned fluff. The writing carves out niches for the characters inside the potential stereotypes, and the actors rise to it.Įnter a young hopeful, Dale Jennings (Sam Reid), who has the wholesome good looks and burning ambition to be a newsreader. There are no unearned crises or implausible twists.
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One of the strengths of the series is the unshowy way it goes about stirring this pot. Among the staff are a former Aussie Rules star turned sports reporter, an Asian news editor, a half-Thai cameraman who keeps his homosexuality quiet and an able Korean junior who does more than her fair share of the work: a mini melting pot that allows the script to probe the unattractive hidden currents of Australian corporate life. Presiding over this fractious newsroom is a dyspeptic boss, Lindsay Cunningham (William McInnes, pictured below), whose explosions seem to be so routine that few of his staff react to them other than by keeping their heads slightly further below the parapet. Geoff baulks at the “glamour” that Upstairs are demanding in bulletins - which means items about pop stars, soap actors and sports personalities. He clearly sees himself as the senior member of the team, battling for position off-camera with the volatile Helen, who is all cool stateliness on-screen but a mess off it.
Geoff, he likes to remind people, has come to Melbourne’s News at Sixpresenter desk via the jungles of Vietnam, but his reporting experience is losing its currency. Helen is a glamorous presenter in the young Barbara Walters vein, with an older, gnarly co-anchor, Geoff Walters (Robert Taylor, pictured below). The titular newsreader (we assume from the early episodes) is Helen Norville, played by Anna Torv, previously seen in Fringe. This timeline isn’t just adding handy topical references: these are the plum news events that stir the journalists’ blood, rouse them from their hangovers and rev up their sex drives. Running throughout are regular datelines, starting with the weekend of the Challenger disaster in February 1986 and progressing through to Chernobyl the following April. Hopefully it will all be sorted as soon as possible.Which is to tell a tale of everyday misogyny, racism, homophobia and backstabbing in the Aussie television industry of the mid- 1980s. Host of the show, gadget guru Charlie Brown, said: "Any incident when someone gets hurt is far from ideal. No date has been set for a hearing, which could see the model take the stand to give evidence against her former employer. The parties briefly returned to the Downing Centre District court yesterday ahead of a conference between McNaught's lawyers and CyberShack production company CBN Media in June. Sources said she failed to make a decent recovery and is suing CyberShack, standing to gain a payout of up to $750,000. McNaught came close to losing a finger while filing a story for the program in 2009 after an electric dirt bike she was testing fell, trapping her right hand in the disc brake.įollowing emergency micro-surgery, the former beauty queen, who is right-handed, was ordered by doctors to do five-minute physiotherapy exercises every hour on the hour for three months in an attempt to regain 80 per cent use of her finger.
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ERIN McNaught and Channel 9 tech show CyberShack could settle a lawsuit brought by the model out of court before her claims are aired in full in a hearing before a judge.
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