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Nine has confirmed Liz Hayes current affairs series
Under Investigation is proceeding with new episodes.
Just six episodes were produced in the show’s first outing, but following good ratings, new episodes are underway.
Each episode centred on a different case, with a table of experts seeking to solve crimes, and uncover new evidence. Shot at Carriageworks in Sydney, it included former homicide detective Gary Jubelin.
David Richardson, previously a Seven Reporter and Bureau Chief at
Today Tonight, has joined as a Producer. Danielle Collis, who was a Producer’s Assistant, also becomes an Associate Producer on the series.
It’s not clear as yet if the show will return in 2021 or 2022.
The team are egged on in their race to the bottom by a revolving door of amoral executive producers with sleazy nicknames like “Thommo” and “Prowsey”, all in the name of winning the night’s ratings and trumping competitors like Ray Martin’s A Current Affair, the Stan Grant-led Real Life and Jana Wendt-era 60 minutes.
Season one’s City of Fear opens with then-Media Watch host Stuart Littlemore giving Frontline an on-air serve for spinning a series of unrelated crimes into a pearl-clutching beat-up about Asian gangs. So far, so familiar. In season three’s My Generation, the team targets the young and unemployed along a well-worn theme: “Kids these days don’t want to work.” It’s a catchcry that echoes through the decades.
This week on
Radio Today Tonight, Jake and Viv discuss revelations from the music industry’s #metoo movement, why radio is yet to have its own reckoning and whether or not Australia’s trade media outlets are complicit in providing a platform to known predators.
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