The Project: Aug 26 – 30

Next guests on The Project include Cyndi Lauper, George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan.

Celebrating the 30th anniversary of her debut album She’s So Unusual with an Australian tour, pop icon Cyndi Lauper will be live at the desk on Tuesday to chat about her stellar career.

Later in the week we’re joined by Patrick “Patty” Mills, the first man with Australian Aboriginal origins to play in the elite National Basketball Association for the San Antonio Spurs.

With the finale of MasterChef Australia airing at 7.30pm on Sunday, September 1, Thursday sees George Calombaris and Gary Mehigan drop in to give their predictions on who will be crowned Australia’s next MasterChef.

We end the week with National Geographic explorer and photographer Joel Satore. Having visited the world’s most beautiful and challenging environments, Joel shares an intimate and humourous look at the highs and lows of his work battling Mother Nature and being chased by man-eating pigs.

Across the week we are also joined by Steve Price, Dr Andrew Rochford, Mia Freedman, Natasha Stott Despoja, Gorgi Coghlan, Peter Helliar, Waleed Aly and Lehmo.

Weeknights at 6.30pm on TEN.