The Newsreader: Sept 17

Sunday’s episode of The Newsreader set in August 1987 is set around the Hoddle Street mass-shootings

The News At Six, and indeed the country, is rocked by a shocking, unprecedented event— a mass shooting in Clifton Hill. A huge and consequential story, it activates everything that compels Helen about the job. She wants to be first to cover the event from every angle— the details, the timeline, the gun-rights debate, the motivations of the shooter.

But when she races to air with confronting early footage of the aftermath, the News At Six is seen as exploiting the tragedy.

8:30pm Sunday on ABC.