Sunday Night | |
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Presented by | Melissa Doyle |
Country of origin | Australia |
Original language | English |
No. of seasons | 11 |
No. of episodes | 300+ |
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Production locations | Sydney, New South Wales |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | Seven Network |
Release | 8 February 2009 19 January 2020 | –
Sunday Night was an Australian news and current affairs program produced and broadcast by the Seven Network. The program aired on Sunday nights and was hosted by Melissa Doyle.[1] It premiered on Sunday 8 February 2009.
Sunday Night was a newsmagazine show, featuring a mix of feature stories, investigative reports, forums and interviews. Unlike other newsmagazine programs, the show initially featured a live studio audience. Additionally, early episodes of the show were immediately followed by a companion program, The All in Call, a live question and answer session broadcast on Seven HD and online. The separate program was later axed, and the discussion was integrated into the final segment of Sunday Night.[2] The axing of The All In Call also saw the removal of the studio audience, while later seasons dropped the final segment discussion altogether.
Mike Munro initially co-hosted the show with Chris Bath but stood down as co-host to concentrate on reporting in April 2011. Alex Cullen and Mark Ferguson have been fill-in presenters. Melissa Doyle succeeded Chris Bath as the show's host from August 2015.[3]
In September 2019, the Seven Network announced that the show would be axed due to poor ratings and a changing television landscape.[4] The last new episode aired on 24 November 2019, though repeats continued to be aired into January 2020.
(In addition to reporting)