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Weekend Sunrise (almost) hits refresh

Update: Weekend Sunrise fails to hit the refresh button as technical issues plague its new-look show.

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Seven’s Weekend Sunrise hits the refresh button from today, and as revealed by TV Tonight, takes a more serious tone than before.

Newspaper editors from around the country will be grilled about why they covered stories in a particular way along with a panel of journalists to discuss stories of the week.

“I don’t want it to be Media Watch but I want some genuine accountability, I want to hear from these guys about why they do things,” Producer Adam Boland told The West Australian.

Presenters Andrew O’Keefe and Samantha Armytage will have bigger roles and hit the road to film stories, while James Tobin’s role has been expanded to include social media updates from Twitter, Facebook and email.

George Houvardas (Packed to the Rafters) and Shae Brewster (Saturday Disney) will give a round-up of the weekend’s events on Saturdays.

Sports presenter Simon Reeve (Beyond 2000) will also look at the latest apps. Melbourne indie band Set Sail will perform.

Boland is also on the look out for nannas, to make sure the voice of the elderly is heard on national TV.

It airs 7-9am today and 7-10am tomorrow.

Updated: In an ironic twist of fate, today’s show did not broadcast. Adam Boland told TV Tonight: Server crash meant we couldn’t get to air. Haven’t seen anything like it before. We couldn’t even access stuff already cut to run off tape back-up. Techs in London had to be called to work through it. Anyway, back tomorrow. Sincere apologies.

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  1. Never before, and possibly never again, has a TV Tonight headline, made such sense. Weekend Sunrise wasn’t on this morning due to technical difficulties… Now, that’s what I call hitting refresh.

  5. Wow Jessica Rowe made a special announcement moments ago apologizing that a technical problem prevents airing of Subrise today, a weather report but nothing else, what’s going on????

  7. LOL. What’s going on?? Just tuned in to Jessica Rowe saying that Weekend Sunrise was unable to be broadcast due to technical difficulties. Now there is some adventure show playing.

    Major fail!!

  11. Not sure what’s going on in Brisbane but no Weekend Sunrise, a very old episode of Beyond Tomorrow!! Weekend Today should be happy, I think Sunrise is going down the gurgler.

  13. What a great start to the “new improved” Weekend Sunrise. Due to technical difficulties it has been replaced by Beyond Tomorrow. A pity George and Shae won’t get to do their segment until next Saturday.

  15. Forget the refresh button….someone forgot to press the button! No weekend sunrise to air..massive technical issues ..unheard of not to have a full backup disaster plan!

  19. Almost hit refresh, David. Server crash meant we couldn’t get to air. Haven’t seen anything like it before. We couldn’t even access stuff already cut to run off tape back-up. Techs in London had to be called to work through it. Anyway, back tomorrow. Sincere apologies.

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