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60 Minutes: July 19

Tara Brown will interview UK backpacker Jamie Neale, who survived for 12 days in the Blue Mountains.

60 Minutes60 Minutes is going in hard against the MasterChef finale, with an interview with Jamie Neale, who survived for 12 days in the Blue Mountains before being miraculously found.

Tara Brown will chat with him about his ordeal.

Nine also has a cross-promo interview with Little Britain‘s David Walliams and Matt Lucas, currently screening in repeats of their sketch comedy on the network. TEN will have the first FTA rights to Little Britain: USA later this year. Rather oddly, Nine even references The Chaser in their synopsis for the story…


The Survivor
Jamie Neale was given up for dead, even his family had assumed the worst and said their final goodbyes. After all, who could possibly survive 12 days without supplies in freezing conditions in the rugged Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. Rescue seemed unlikely. Survival would be a miracle. Well, four days ago, Jamie pulled off that miracle, emerging from the wilderness, exhausted and suffering hypothermia. On Sunday night, you’ll meet this extraordinary 19-year-old as he tells Tara Brown his epic story of survival for the very first time.
Reporter: Tara Brown
Producers: Nick Greenaway, Stephen Taylor

Loved to Death
There’s simply no place like it on earth. And we owe it so much. Without the Galapagos Islands and its unique wildlife, we’d still be living in the age of ignorance. We’d never have had Charles Darwin’s Theory of Evolution, showing us how we became what we are today. These islands changed science forever, but now they’re changing, too. With so much history and so many wonders to see, it’s a tourist mecca. And you know what that means. Fortunately, though, there’s a band of scientists fighting the good fight to save the Galapagos. And, after spending some time there, we can tell you it’s a fight well worth winning.
Reporter: Michael Usher
Producer: Nick Greenaway

Rude Britannia!
Comedy’s a funny thing. A joke someone finds hilarious, another might consider a dud. You just can’t tell. And when it comes to taste, things get even trickier, all hell can break loose, as the Chaser team discovered recently. Which makes you wonder how Matt Lucas and David Walliams get away with it. They’re the two chaps from Little Britain who specialise in the bizarre. Nothing’s too grotesque, nothing’s off limits. They can be shocking, they can make you groan, squirm and roar with laughter. And they’re exactly the same in real life, as Liam Bartlett found out when he went to tea with them in London.
Reporter: Liam Bartlett
Producer: Howard Sacre

13 Responses

  1. Tara didn’t even ask him about having 5 pizzas before he went. She wasn’t tough on him at all and I think that is what people would have wanted. Yes he is psychologically damaged no matter what happened to him but they paid him 200 grand that can go towards his recovery.

  2. how sad desperate and pathetic is Ch9????????? why waste 200K to interview him? 36 minutes (24+ads)is just 1 tiny notch above that other Nine News joke called A Current Affair. Not Only is its “News” agenda boring these days, so are its woeful hosts/reporters….no charm or warmth about any of them. heres hoping 36minutes falls below that 1mil mark….Go The Poh MC 3mil+

  3. good point Judith

    i would say that masterchef will thump 44 minutes by atleast 1 mil if nine had brains they would not have even tried to beat masterchef because it will be unbeatable

    julie to be the first ever aus amsterchef

  4. I understand part of Jamie’s contract with the Nork Network is to host every second show in the understanding his presence will translate into “Nork Reward Points”… as in, “one ratings point for every $1 spent” on the agreement…

  5. How wide did Nine open their checkbook for this one? Well at least it’s going to a good cause, I say bleed the suckers (ch9) dry!

    Still I probably won’t watch it…

  6. Do you really think this is “60 Minutes” going in hard? I hope you’re wrong, and this isn’t their best stuff.

    It looks to me they’re conceding they’ve got no chance, so why waste a good set of stories when nobody will be watching?

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