Outsiders (Australian TV program)
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| Genre | News, Political analysis, commentary |
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| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 2 |
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| Running time | 1 hour (inc. adverts) |
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| Original network | Sky News Australia |
| Original release | 4 December 2016 – present |
Outsiders is an Australian television news and commentary program broadcast weekly on Sky News Australia. The program is co-hosted by former Liberal MP Ross Cameron and editor of The Spectator magazine Rowan Dean and features long-form discussion of political issues between the conservative presenters.
The program is broadcast from the Sky News Centre in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park. The series debuted a pilot episode on 4 December 2016 and will air weekly in 2017.
Former Labor leader Mark Latham was the program's primary host until his employment was terminated by Sky News on 29 March 2017, following several controversial statements made on the program. Subsequently, the program was put on hiatus, with the scheduled episode on 2 April 2017 being pulled from the schedule. It returned on 9 April 2017, revealing the program will use rotating guest hosts in place of Latham.
In April 2017, Latham launched a website called Mark Latham's Outsiders and began hosting a weekly Facebook Live program affiliated with The Rebel Media. Despite sharing the same name, it is unrelated to the Sky News program.
The format will add a weekly primetime episode in 2018.
The format was designed as a response to the long-running ABC program Insiders, which many conservatives see as aimed towards the "inner-city leftist class". The hosting trio have described themselves as "Trump's Aussie mates" and will proudly boast "absolutely no balance whatsoever" and plan to "do the opposite of [Insiders host] Barrie Cassidy". As the program airs at 10am AEDT, it begins airing as Insiders concludes.
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