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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.

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.

52 Responses

  1. Can’t believe all the comments from people who don’t even watch the show, taking the opportunity to sink the boot in. Andrew & Sam are a great team and I wish them all the best with the show tomorrow

  2. @Adam Boland – +1 regarding you taking the time to let people know what was going on. Really wish others would take your lead, esp when there are late schedule changes, gaps in fast-tracked overseas shows, etc.

  3. Looks like I was one of many that tuned in especially to see revamped show.
    Oh well, 2 hours sleep, I won’t get back.
    Nice to see Adam Boland gives David & TV Tonight respect by posting in here.
    Kudos to Adam for doing that – I will give weekend Sunrise another chance, if I wake up.
    Now if only other networks would answer age old question – programming by numbers ?

  4. Problem fixed. And those who were asking: yes, we have back-ups – but even they went down today. First time I’ve seen something like that in my 10 years at Seven. Anyway, such is life. On with the show, 7am tomorrow.

  5. @ Tasmanian de√il, maybe because comments hadn’t been moderated by David when they posted their message, so weren’t aware that the problem was affecting everyone? No need to be a wise guy…

  6. This show really needed a make over. Adam Boland is part genious. He is responsible not only for Sunrise but changed the landscape for morning tv everywhere. If all his efforts is only doing Weekend Sunrise it should be good. I think when he was doing all the other stuff burnout would of crept in.

  7. James Tobin’s role has been “expanded” to include looking at Twitter and Simon Reeve will look at the latest apps? Wow, they’re is so modern and on the pulse I’m surprised they haven’t rebranded it Weekend Sunrise 2.0.

  8. Why are two dozen comments on this post saying the exact same thing? We get it.

    😕

    Back on topic, Sunrise didn’t go to air today due to technical difficulties, if anyone was unaware…

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