{"id":457,"date":"2009-07-31T16:29:21","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T06:29:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandralee.com.au\/?p=457"},"modified":"2009-07-31T16:30:37","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T06:30:37","slug":"sarah-murdochs-next-top-documentary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/2009\/07\/sarah-murdochs-next-top-documentary\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Murdoch’s Next Top Documentary?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Sarah<\/a>

Sarah Murdoch at auditions for 2009 reality show, Australia's Next Top Model<\/p><\/div>\n

The TV career of Sarah Murdoch<\/span><\/strong> has gone from strength to strength since she made her grown-up debut as co-host of Channel Nine\u2019s <\/strong><\/span>Today<\/strong><\/span> <\/em>show over the summer holidays in 2007.<\/p>\n

And now with the success of Australia\u2019s Next Top Model <\/span><\/strong><\/em>tucked under her fashionable belt, the willowy blonde is branching out again.<\/p>\n

Murdoch (she dropped the O\u2019Hare a couple of years ago, but still several after she and media scion Lachlan Murdoch<\/strong><\/span>) has spent the past couple of months travelling around Australia filming interviews with ordinary Australians who have done extraordinary things.<\/p>\n

The ever-popular 37-year model talked briefly about her new project while launching Battlelines<\/strong><\/em><\/span> written by Federal Liberal Party<\/strong><\/span> hard man, Tony Abbott<\/span><\/em><\/strong>, in Sydney on Tuesday.<\/p>\n

She previously inked a deal with Foxtel,<\/span><\/strong> which produces Top Model<\/em>, to make documentaries with her production company, Room 306 <\/em><\/strong><\/span>(named after the number of the hospital room where she gave birth to her two sons).<\/p>\n

Murdoch, who recently finished filming the series, said she had interviewed a courageous fireman and a teenaged girl who took control of a runaway bus to save the schoolkids travelling on it, not to mention herself (that\u2019s the teenager, not Mrs Murdoch).<\/p>\n

The four-part doco-series will go to air on Foxtel\u2019s Bio channel <\/span><\/strong>in October, and is linked with the News Ltd Pride of Australia<\/strong><\/span><\/em> awards.<\/p>\n

Another piece of news from Abbott\u2019s book launch came from Melbourne University Press <\/strong><\/span>boss, Louise Adler<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n

Contrary to popular belief that MUP is a left-leaning publishing house, they have published three books about or by Liberal Party politicians in the past two years (John Winston Howard, The Biography, The Costello Memoirs,<\/strong><\/em><\/span> and Battlelines<\/em><\/strong><\/span>) and will publish former Liberal Party\u00a0Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser\u2019s<\/strong><\/span> bio in 2010.<\/p>\n

Wonder if he’ll have a Trousergate <\/strong><\/em><\/span>chapter?<\/p>\n

“Melbourne University Press hopes to dispel the myth that books about Liberals don’t sell,” Adler told the crowd. Not for nothing is MUP’s motto, “books with spine<\/strong><\/span>“.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The TV career of Sarah Murdoch has gone from strength to strength since she made her grown-up debut as co-host of Channel Nine\u2019s Today show over the summer holidays in 2007. And now with the success of Australia\u2019s Next Top Model tucked under her fashionable belt, the willowy blonde is branching out again. Murdoch (she […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,14,8,18,4,3,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-457","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-celebrity","category-fashion","category-film","category-politics","category-pop-culture","category-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457","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=457"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":466,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/457\/revisions\/466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=457"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sandralee.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}