Station:
Seven Network (AU)
Status:
Ended
Start:
2018-04-17
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Andrew Denton will make his long-awaited return to Seven in a show based mostly on chairs. Australia's shortest (some would say greatest) interviewer will sit opposite a range of fascinating people and try to find out what makes them tick. The formula will be simple. Two people, two chairs, one conversation, no gimmicks. Even its title will be simple. Interview. The only complex bit will be the people Andrew talks to – every possible kind of human being and a few impossible ones as well. Topical when it needs to be, timeless whenever it can, Interview aims to be about light, not heat. In a time when everything seems to be splitting apart, Interview will seek out what binds us. There will be talking. There will be listening. There will be laughing, and hopefully the occasional, compelling silence. And if that doesn't work, there'll be a bathroom renovation. Possibly some blindfolded dating. And as a last resort, some kind of mystery food challenge (Surprise! It's an eggplant!). Interview. Every week, amazing humans.
TV Show Ended.
S2E14 - Episode 14
This week, one of the toughest challenges of Andrew's career: how do you interview a friend of 40 years, someone you've known since you were teenagers, someone you've worked with, laughed with and already shared most of your life with?
Andrew and Amanda met at Mitchell College in Bathurst (now Charles Sturt University) when he was 18 and she was 17, both fresh out of high school. They've worked together on TV and radio, and generally been each other's biggest supporters.
"I immediately knew we were going to be friends," Andrew says of their college introduction, "and we have spent the last 40 years trying to either shock each other or make each other laugh. Often, they've been the same thing."
So how do you make an interview like this work? You reach into your loooooong memory list of funny and embarrassing moments and celebrate Amanda, one of Australia's favourite women, by letting her remind us all what a smart, funny and occasionally super daggy human she is.
It's the most fun you can have with two people and two chairs.
Air Date: 23 Jul 2019 06:00 (CDT)
S2E15 - Episode 15
This week on Andrew Denton:Interview meets with Jessica Mauboy.
Air Date: 06 Aug 2019 06:00 (CDT)
S2E16 - Episode 16
Former foreign minister Julie Bishop is guest this week on the season final of Andrew Denton: Interview.
Air Date: 13 Aug 2019 06:00 (CDT)