The Feed revamps for 2019

The Feed is returning to SBS VICELAND next week, but in a revamped format.

Instead of a nightly half hour offering it will become a one-hour weekly current affairs, getting out of the studio and adding a weekly themed topic.

Host Marc Fennell tells TV Tonight, the decision was driven by the team itself and not network management.

“We have seen how the audience consumes the different things we make over the years change and we went to SBS with a plan for how to address those audiences better. We’re really a hybrid tv and digital operation.

“Vastly more people watch The Feed on social media than TV and we think that we can make a better tv product at a later timeslot and more time. Each episode will be themed as well and we’ll attack that theme in different ways across the show.

“I think the show has grown and changed a lot but this felt like an opportunity to build something that felt more right with how people consume us rather than a nightly show. ”

SBS Director of News and Current Affairs, Jim Carroll said: “The Feed is always breaking new ground. Moving to a weekly one-hour television format on SBS VICELAND and with an encore on SBS, the program is committing more resources to ensure its content reaches digital audiences with greater immediacy and when they most want it.

“The team is putting enormous time and energy into the relaunch, and we’re really excited about what they’ll be offering our television and digital audiences in 2019.”

Fennell is joined by Jan Fran, Laura Murphy-Oates, Patrick Abboud, Michael Hing and Marty Smiley.

Here’s what’s planned for episode one next Thursday:

What does it mean to ‘let kids be kids’? Does it mean encouraging them to follow their passions, wherever they may take them? Or does it mean shielding them from ideas or activities that are just ‘too adult’ for children?

Prime Minister Scott Morrison suggests that when it comes to gender or sexuality, children aren’t mature enough to know what’s what. But a movement of boys and parents are rejecting that view, in the most flamboyant way possible.

In its first episode of 2019, The Feed, SBS VICELAND’s flagship news and current affairs program speaks with young children who use drag personas to explore and challenge gender, and ultimately, have fun.

From 8:30pm Thursday, 14 February on SBS VICELAND.