Mike Munro Is Hoping Everyone Forgets He Ever Hosted ‘A Current Affair’

More Seven Versus Nine news, with Mike Munro confirmed as the host of the marvellously titled new current affairs show which’ll be screened on Sunday nights called Sunday Night.

Mike Munro hopes to return to top quality investigative current affairs on television after joining Channel 7 during the week.

Wait a second, Herald Sun – are you insinuating that the years Mike spent hosting A Current Affair were not spent working in the world of top quality investigative current affairs? But… but… this makes no sense! The show was called A Current Affair, for god’s sake! What else could it have been about? Dole bludgers, supermarket secrets, and dangerous bras of the world? I refuse to believe it. I mean, I also refuse to tune in to ever find out for myself, but I’m gonna give Mike Munro the benefit of the doubt.

Let’s learn more about Sunday Night.

The veteran journalist will join Sydney newsreader Chris Bath as the co-host of the network’s new current affairs show, Sunday Night. The show will air weekly at 6.30pm and, unlike 60 Minutes, will be broadcast live.

Broadcast live? Oooer.

In his first interview after signing a one-year contract, Munro said he was attracted to the serious current affairs side of Sunday Night, after being critical of the direction of his former program, A Current Affair.

“That’s what commercial television has been lacking – true, fair dinkum, hardline investigations,” he said. “You can do the social issues, the star interviews, but commercial television hasn’t been doing enough investigations.”

Wait, was that a “fair dinkum” quote from Mike Munro, or Mike Moore?

Here’s an example of the hard hitting television journalism we can look forward to when Sunday Night hits our screens.

Early episodes will include a report on the ice drug epidemic and a feature on Coldplay.

I smell a Walkley!

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