The new ABC TV series The Newsreader bases its newsroom dramas on real events of 1986, but how accurate is it?
The ABC's new TV series The Newsreader provides an insight into the smoky Australian newsrooms of the 1980s and the people who brought us our nightly news.
So let us dive into a gentle history lesson topped off with some friendly nitpicking — and an absolute minimum of spoilers.The Challenger space shuttle explodes, killing its seven-member crew on January 28, 1986.The episode's big moment is a breaking news update on the Challenger space shuttle disaster.
There's also a cool era-appropriate soundtrack, including Eurogliders' Heaven — a chart-topper in 1984, Models' Barbados released in March 1985, and The Motels' Total Control which went to number 7 in Australia in 1979.Two characters manage the unlikely but dramatically convenient feat of seeing a brilliant and highly visible Halley's Comet in the Melbourne sky on February 1, 1986.
The episode also refers to the 'Life. Be In It' campaign, which began in Victoria in the mid-70s, and John Elliott being the president of the Carlton Football Club.The start of the episode seems to indicate Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson had only just announced their engagement. That announcement was actually made on March 17, 10 days earlier.
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