Hamish Macdonald talks The Truth for this week Mumbrella Hangout
Channel Ten investigative reporter Hamish Macdonald was this week’s guest for the Mumbrella video Hangout.
Macdonald hosts Ten Late News and is the network’s foreign correspondent, as well as a regular on light entertainment program The Project.
He debuts his new three-part series, The Truth Is…?, on Channel Ten next week. For the series, Macdonald travels across the US and Europe to cover the personal stories of returned soldiers, families living in the shadow of Chernobyl and other personal stories that span war, politics, and pop culture.
hamish: do you enjoy hosting the late news, and the hours, and what should we expect from ‘The Trush Is?’ will it be different to 60 minutes or sunday night?
Hamish: How do you see ‘news and current affairs’ playing a part in a prime time schedule in 2013, specifically in the cases of The Truth Is and Late News? What do you see as key to bringing in appropriate audience numbers to sustain those slots, while maintaining a level of quality?
Why only 3 episodes? Will there be more if it gets good ratings?
Hamish: will you taking your shirt off in this series? Enquiring minds need to know.