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Chris Bath joins Mike Munro

Popular news presenter Chris Bath wins the coveted co-hosting role on Sunday Night.

Chris Bath will co-host Sunday Night with Mike Munro on Seven.

Set to broadcast live each Sunday at 6:30pm, the new current affair show will ensure Bath has a national primetime vehicle, to capitalise on her success as Seven’s weekends news presenter in Sydney.

Bath wins the role ahead of the other hot contender, Natalie Barr.

“It’s been a while, so it’ll be nice to get back on the road. Great to do some longer form stuff, which I haven’t done for a while,” Bath told the Sunday Telegraph.

Mike Munro says commercial television has been lacking ‘true, fair dinkum, hardline investigations.’

“You can do the social issues, the star interviews, but commercial television hasn’t been doing enough investigations,” he told the Herald Sun.

“I miss being live. I miss meeting people. I miss the jigsaw of putting it all together.”

The show will be a mix of investigative reporting, high-profile interviews and what co-poducer Adam Boland calls ‘moment’ television. Early episodes will include a report on the ice drug epidemic and a feature on Coldplay. It will also include a live studio audience.

Munro, who has signed for one year, resigned from Nine in July but said he was contacted by Seven news boss Peter Meakin before he resigned.

“I resigned from Nine and wanted to give them three months’ notice deliberately,” he said.

“I wanted to do it cleanly and professionally, but Peter (Meakin) had called me – he is uncanny.

“He called me three days before I was about to resign from Nine to see what was happening.”

Late last year Seven dabbled with the timeslot when it produced several financial specials.

Sunday Night is expected to launch early February.

Source: Sunday Herald Sun, Sunday Telegraph

38 Responses

  1. I still don’t think 6.30 on a Sunday is the right time for a family to sit down and watch “serious journalism”….. It’s family hour in my books….. especially on a Sunday nite…..

    Be interesting to see how it all goes….

  2. According to today’s Sunday Herald Sun, Sunday Night will be filmed at Seven’s studios at Epping in Sydney’s northern suburbs, the same place where Home and Away is filmed.

  3. Why don’t you remember Brodie?
    These are your exact words @ 1:34pm “stronger more relatable format. Meh, well that’s my opinion anyway.”

    Think before hitting submit.

  4. Note to all – Sunday Night will be produced in the Outer Sydney suburb of Epping according to todays Herald Sun.
    Boland is supposedly concentrating mainly on this show and won’t be based at Sunrise hq.
    Sunday Night is apparently going out Live !

  5. good on chris, she is a great person, everyone seems to like her, very rare these days, someone seems to hate everyone.

    well i will join the timeslot band wagon. i think 6:30 will do much more damage to 60mins than 7:30 ever would. not only because of the undermining thing, just because that’s where CA’s belong, strait after the news. i never knew why 60mins was so late it always went news, fluff, 60 mins, drama. all bad leads to each other. and yes i doubt many people can watch 2.5hours of news/current affairs. especially if Australia’s got talent is the other option.

    and 7 hasn’t had much luck at 6:30 sun, so this might solve their problems, but the financial crisis specials got 1.4 which is a good indication, so i’m sure something without kosh can do just about that or more.

  6. @ Jerome : There Is only One Studio at Martin Place. Sunrise & The Morning Show come from the exact same studio. It will be interesting to see how this is done.

    I would have prefered Nat Barr Myself. She is underutilized on Sunrise

  7. Haha, funny you’re telling me to think before submitting…

    I don’t remember saying Stronger and ‘Reliable’, Maybe you should take some of your own advice. *winks*

    BTW im not asking you to agree with me, I was just stating my opinion, for which I provided reasoning. No need to get bitchy!

  8. fred. an undermining competition would probably been much more sucessful than direct competition. i’m sure people will be sick of news/current affairs by 7:30 (after news/sunday night) can’t imagine many people watching 2.5 hours of it especially on sunday “wind down and relax night.” but knowing 9 i’m sure if it works out 60 mins will come to 6:30.

    has it been confirmed that it will be live. in engalnd what they used to do was have the stories play on a sunday night (not live) and the hosts and the partiular reporter would run a debate/discussion with the people in the audience sometimes with experts. and the the debate show would air at 4pm the next week along with letters from the public, is there a chance that 7 is doing this. it would explain the need for 2 hosts and an audience.

    congrats chris, i love natalie but i think chris is more appropriate for this job. can’t think of any 2 better suited for the role.

  9. LOL Fred……

    Scheduling Sunday Night at 6.30 is likely to have just as big an impact on 60 Minutes as it would going head to head IMO. Why would someone wait an hour longer to get their current affairs fix, when they could get it an hour earlier, on what could be a better show, with a stronger more relatable format. Meh, well that’s my opinion anyway.

  10. What about the audience, Kuttys? Surely they wouldn’t want a noisy, unsettled audience in that small space during the news. There’s already enough background noise coming from the newsroom and the street during the news. I suppose they could always pre-record the weather segment/closer and reconfigure the studio and herd in the audience during that time.

  11. So, don’t make it like Romper Room like the clever bee said… You already screwed any chance of having a Sunday 50th special in Brisbane by 7, by putting this on.

    But seriously…

    No, seriously, they will have both sets on site, while the opener plays, Bath (and camera) will switch angles, from ATN’s news set to the Sundae Night set.
    They did this in the Hinch days…

  12. @Mr. Do-Bee, thats exactly what i was thinking, maybe the studios are next to each other like sunrise and the morning show. otherwise chris bath is going to need to need to get the runner out.

    i was torn between CB and and NB but i trust their decision. Bath is a real find. i have already seen the add with them on it. that was quick.

  13. How will Seven manage this? News at 6 followed by Sunday Night with a live audience is going to be a logistical nightmare if this is all coming out of Martin Place, even if they replace Bath on the news.

  14. We will see how long the hard hitting investigation stories last before they start on the fluff lol,cant see point in two hosts for this show.Seven made mistakes with Munroe and Bath as hosts.Would of been good too see someone with class and knowledge like Jana Wendt presenting this show,but l think network exec think her tv days over.But as a viewer we need woman like her back on tv screens.

  15. What’s that I smell…oh that would be 60 Minutes’ burning carcass.

    I have a feeling Sunday Night is going to absolutely blow it out of the water.

    I personally would have preferred Nat Barr, but Chris Bath isn’t a bad runner up. Very much looking forward to this show.

  16. Good luck to Chris Bath – make or break move for her.
    Let’s hope Seven gets it right and stays true to what Munro says and does ‘‘true, fair dinkum, hardline investigations.
    I am sick of the fluff and cross promotion nonsense on ACA and TT.

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