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Dicko’s Can of Worms ready to be opened

Dicko's new show Can of Worms is nearing its launch and TV writers were invited to presentations, but sworn to secrecy.

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Dicko’s new show Can of Worms is nearing its launch and TV writers were invited to presentations late last week to sample the show.

But they were instantly put under an embargo about how the format functions.

Produced by Zapruder’s Other Films in conjunction with WaterCooler, owned jointly by Dicko and David Wilson, the show will be recorded shortly before it is broadcast in order to keep it topical. Without preview disks available, the Sydney-based show allowed media into a sneak peek.

Described as a more-youthful Q & A, it will tackle divisive talking points and issues in the news with guest panelists. It will also include social media, polls and games.

Typical talking points during development have included Jackie O’s decision to breastfeed her baby while on the move; Is it OK to spy on your kids online? Is porn a normal part of everyday life? Is it wrong to tell your kids there’s no God?

The TEN show is hoping not just to trigger debates about some of the topics it will tackle, but to ask audiences to accept the host outside his music role.

Dicko has long been considered a talent by Andrew Denton, but aside from his Australian Idol judging, his other TV projects haven’t been an ideal fit.

“When Dicko came to us earlier in the year with the germ of an idea about a good, old-fashioned, shiny-floor, shit-stirring piece of television, we knew he was on to something,” Andrew Denton has previously said.

“He is very passionate about Can Of Worms and we are excited to be working with him on it.

“However, if you’re offended by honesty this may not be the show for you.”

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  1. Why is it people make a big deal about others that come from other countries and how they dress but say nothing about everything that is being changed in order not to offend these people coming to our country, If they don’t like the way we live then don’t come here and if they come here and don’t like it they should leave.

  2. So like there was Baywatch and Baywatch After Dark, I wonder if this will be The Circle After Dark or will it be more part ABC’s Q & A part SBS’s Insight part Beauty And The Beast.

    I will give it a go, but personally I prefer SBS’s Insight over Q and A, so it may be a hard ask to win me over, guess time will tell though, would like it better if TEN did a Newsworld with Clive Robertson style one (Newstopia perhaps ) or really pushed it a little and went with a Salam Cafe type show headed up by Waleed Aly (really miss that show).

  3. Will give this show a go. If it becomes topical and if the issues they discuss are topical and relevant then it will be a good show.

  4. So it looks like there will be no Gruen Transfer Series Four this year. Andrew Denton, I hope you are f**kin happy with this. Once again your company has Betrayed the AFP!!! First, AFP and now this!!!

  5. Worms, idea germs, shit-stirring and shiny floors. Hmmm.

    I’ll tune to see what it’s like, but I fear Dicko is only good at annoying Marcia Hines and making talentless teenagers cry. I do hope it works though.

  6. This sounds inane.

    And why does Dicko appear to have spatterings of blood all over his shirt? Makes his facial expression look pretty sinister too.

  8. Probably not our demographic, but we’ll give it ago.

    Dicko can handle himslf well, Denton can tweek shows to make them interesting to watch, and TEN will always give a new show heaps of time to settle in.

  9. Don’t care. If I wand Q&A I’ll watch the intelligent version. This has misfire written all over it. Andrew Denton – if the audience wants you, why on earth do you think this is an alternative? Pass.

  10. Hopefully Dicko takes less of the ‘save the kids’ mentality that seems to pervade many of these types of shows. If he can cut through some of the fear spread about common topics by other outlets, it could have potential.

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