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Airdate: Child Genius

Dr. Susan Carland is looking to find Australia’s brightest child on SBS.

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New SBS series Child Genius hosted by Dr. Susan Carland, looking to find Australia’s brightest child.

This is a 6 part series playing out over 2 weeks on SBS in an early evening timeslot.

For more than a decade, Australia’s education performance has been declining on the world stage. As a nation, we pride ourselves on our sporting excellence while academic achievements are often overlooked. For the first time ever, children have gathered from across the country in a contest to find Australia’s brightest child. In a unique competition documentary format, 19 gifted children aged seven to 12 will display their brilliant minds and amazing memories in a thrilling competition that celebrates the phenomenal academic achievements of Australian children.

Presided over by quizmaster Dr Susan Carland and presented in association with Australian Mensa, this new six-part series brings together Australia’s brightest kids as they undergo a string of challenging quizzes that would stump even the smartest adults. These gifted children all have very high IQs and showcase phenomenal cognitive abilities in maths, general knowledge, memory and language. But, Child Genius is more than just a showcase of Australia’s brightest young minds – it also gives a unique insight into the joys – and challenges – of parenting a gifted child. We will get a glimpse into their diverse home lives and meet a highly entertaining group of parents – from ‘Tiger Mums’, to those who have no idea where their child gets their intelligence from – in a humorous and often heart-warming series that asks – what exactly makes a child genius? For some of the participants, Child Genius is also rare opportunity to meet like-minded peers.

Episode One: Monday, 12 November at 7.30pm
Episode Two: Tuesday, 13 November at 7.30pm
Episode Three: Wednesday, 14 November at 7.30pm

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  3. A while ago I saw a documentary about an Indian chap who went around the country testing all the children in rural and remote areas for signs of genius and if they passed the test – then he would fund their education. I thought this would be a great concept to apply to Australia. As my wife often says, there could be any number of young Aboriginal kids out there who are geniuses and yet they and by extension us will never know or benefit from such talent.

    This is a different format and I fully expect it will be populated by high achieving kids from well to do backgrounds. Nothing wrong with that, but I think the other format is more powerful story telling, However, it does require a person with a degree of financial largeness to help drive the show. Twiggy Forrest perhaps?

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