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Kumi Taguchi hosts a Q+A with endurance contestants with unseen footage from the Arctic Circle. 7:30pm Thursday on SBS. Take 5 with Zan Rowe ABC The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives Disney Secrets Declassified With David Duchovny SBS Back Roads ABC Holding BritBox

ABC Executive Producer Rachel Robinson and the Sydney Morning Herald’s Sydney Editor Megan Gorrey have been named as the inaugural recipients of the Judith Whelan Leadership Fellowship. The Fellowship honours Judith Whelan, who spent decades at the top of Australian journalism at the ABC and Sydney Morning Herald before her death from cancer in 2024. Rachel and Megan will take part in the University’s Sydney Leadership Accelerator Program.

A Current Affair tonight brings together former Prime Minister John Howard, Nine’s Canberra Bureau Chief and former chief cameraman Mark Jessop, and former political reporter Nigel Blunden to relive the tragic events of September 11, 2001. In a broadcast exclusive, host Ally Langdon sits down with the trio as they reunite for the first time in 25 years to unpack and reflect on the forgotten story of Washington D.C. — where Australia’s leader had a front-row seat as the world changed forever.

★★★★★ Rated 0 out of 5 Up for grabs in this Friday’s subscriber newsletter are 3 x copies of Season 2 of Inspector Ellis releases on DVD on September 9. If you haven’t yet subscribed to the weekly newsletter you can do so here. DCI Ellis is once again parachuted into failing cases across the rural north of England for Season 2 of Inspector Ellis.

A new season of Dexter: Resurrection comes to Paramount+ in October as part of the franchise’s 20-year anniversary. Michael C. Hall returns as Dexter Morgan, with Uma Thurman, Jack Alcott, Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, Kadia Saraf, Dominic Fumusa, Desmond Harrington and James Remar. Dan Stevens, Bokeem Woodbine, Nona Parker Johnson, and Brian Cox join in regular roles. Krysten Ritter also returns in a guest starring role and Gabriel Luna joins as a guest star this season.

TV icon Delvene Delaney spoke today in the very first session of Screenworks: Regional to Global and the recent documentary Love of an Icon: The Legend of Crocodile Dundee. Delany was asked about the working relationship between Paul Hogan and her husband John Cornell (aka ‘Strop’) and what drew them together. “It’s like attracting something ‘unlike’.

10 has unveiled a new promo for Big Brother which (borrowing insp from those Jungle promos) sees Mel Tracina singing her way through a Brissy streetscape…. and a little help from Bjork. The season screens from October, with a longer run than in 2025. It’s almost time to peel the plastic off the Diary Room chair: Big Brother is opening the doors to his new Bris-Vegas digs this October. Television’s most mischievous mastermind has been quiet while he plans his move, but all that is about to change.

Sunrise continues to dominate at breakfast but yesterday’s numbers show a huge gap over Today, while ABC’s News Breakfast is closing in on Nine. Sunrise: 472,000 Today: 262,000 News Breakfast: 240,000 Meanwhile The Block led entertainment at 1.07m then 7:30 (743,000), The Traitors (665,000), First Dates (505,000), Foreign Correspondent (461,000) and Shaun Micallef’s Origin Odyssey (224,000).

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Prime Video has announced today three new Australian Prime Original commissions. Free Spirits: The Backpacker Poisonings (w/t) (Docuseries) In late 2024, eight young backpackers from around the world including two Australians set off on the adventure of a lifetime through Southeast Asia, chasing freedom, friendship, and self-discovery. They documented everything on their phones: chaotic bus rides, late-night laughs, voice notes home, and joyful selfies.