{"id":1171,"date":"2011-04-21T14:56:14","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T04:56:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandralee.com.au\/?p=1171"},"modified":"2013-05-01T12:28:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T02:28:22","slug":"mama-mia-tv-show-to-debut-on-sky-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/2011\/04\/mama-mia-tv-show-to-debut-on-sky-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mama Mia TV show to debut on Sky News"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Mia Freedman about to debut in her own talk show on Sky News (picture Max Doyle, Fairfax)<\/p><\/div>\n

With the success of Channel Ten’s female chat fest The Circle<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, it comes as no surprise that Sky News <\/strong><\/em>is getting in on the action with the post-Easter debut of a new female-friendly show hosted by Sydney journalist and regular Sky guest, Mia Freedman<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Freedman and Sky insiders are being tight-lipped about the show that could challenge Ten’s new ratings juggernaut and popular newcomer Chrissie Swan<\/a><\/strong>, who is up for three Logies.<\/strong><\/p>\n

<\/strong>Or it might find its way to an evening time-slot amid the highly respected political shows\u00a0PM Agenda<\/em><\/strong> followed by The Nation With [<\/span><\/span><\/em><\/strong>political heavyhitter]\u00a0David Speers<\/strong><\/a> <\/strong>and Paul Murray Live<\/em><\/strong>, helmed by the multi-talented \u00a02UE\u00a0drive-time<\/a><\/strong>broadcaster.<\/p>\n

Sky recently boosted its political credentials by giving\u00a0Helen Dalley<\/strong><\/a> and Graham Richardson<\/strong> shows in the evening timeslot, and it ran a NSW-election special called So You Want To Be A Politician<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Freedman refused to confirm her imminent debut when I asked her via Twitter yesterday, saying only; “So many rumours”.\u00a0However, I can report the show will involve a revolving panel of guests from the familiar worlds of fashion, media and celebrity, in which she has a slew of mates and contacts, mirroring her spectacularly popular blog,\u00a0MamaMia<\/a>. Politicos also have been approached to appear.<\/p>\n

News of the Freedman experiment follows speculation in the\u00a0Media<\/a> column in The Australian<\/em><\/strong> earlier this year that Sky news boss Angelo Frangopoulos was considering giving her a talk show. It also follows the short-lived effort by Sky to launch 2GB superstar broadcaster Ray Hadley<\/a><\/strong> in the evenings. Experiments, however, don’t always work. Hadley quit after four episodes including one in which a young woman appeared in a bikini<\/a> and boxing gloves (don’t ask), reportedly upsetting some of serious players at the station.<\/p>\n

The only questions remaining for the Freedman TV trial are: what time-slot will it get and what will it be called? If the show lands in the hard-hitting political\u00a0nightly line-up the title\u00a0Mama Mia<\/em> might not be a perfect fit, though I suspect it would work if the show goes into day-time.<\/p>\n

Freedman was a successful magazine editor at ACP Magazines<\/strong> before a brief and unsuccessful<\/a> stint at Channel Nine with the ill-fated, all-female day-time show, The Catch-Up<\/a><\/em><\/strong> (based on the US show, The View<\/strong><\/em>). It was boned after four months of low ratings.<\/p>\n

She is a mother of three and successful pop culture commentator,\u00a0author<\/a> and Fairfax<\/a> columnist, proving that some women can have it all. At once. Eventually.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

With the success of Channel Ten’s female chat fest The Circle, it comes as no surprise that Sky News is getting in on the action with the post-Easter debut of a new female-friendly show hosted by Sydney journalist and regular Sky guest, Mia Freedman. Freedman and Sky insiders are being tight-lipped about the show that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,8,3,22,7,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebrity","category-fashion","category-pop-culture","category-radio","category-society","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1171"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1434,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171\/revisions\/1434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}