AUSTRALIA VOTES: ELECTION 2022
Saturday, 6pm, ABC
It is a mystery for the ages - just where does Antony Green go when it's not election time?
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For every federal election for as long as I can remember, Green has been the staple of the ABC coverage.
Hosts and political panel members may come and go but Green is there every three-year cycle, giving his views on how each of the country's seats are going.
He has in effect become the bellwether for the federal election; really, no-one thinks the election has truly been won or lost until Green says so on the ABC.
It must be great to be so sought-after, so looked up to on election night. But that's only one night a year, there really isn't that much call for an election expert when there is no election happening.
So, again, what happens to Antony after the election? Where does he go on Sunday morning after his election-calling work is done?
Maybe he heads back to his study, puts his feet up and reads through news clippings of elections held long ago. Maybe his moment in the white-hot glare of the ABC election coverage takes so much out of him that he needs to go away for a few weeks to recharge.
Or maybe he goes home, looks at the calendar and starts crossing off the days until someone, somewhere in Australia holds an election he can analyse.
YOU CAN'T ASK THAT
Wednesday, 9pm, ABC
This has got to be one of the best shows on TV at the moment.
Over the course of its seven seasons, the show has highlighted the realities of life of various groups of people in a way no-one else has been able to.
Part of that is because the show asks the questions people want answers to - even if those questions are likely to be racist, sexist or otherwise insensitive.
The other part of why this works so well is members of that various subset of people get to answer the questions themselves. The information isn't being filtered through a journalist or talking head trying to interpret what they're saying for a wider audience.
And even when the subject group looks to be chosen for a laugh - as is the case with this week's episode on bogans - the laughs soon give way to a deeper, more poignant look at them.
In the process, it's the viewer who starts asking themselves questions. Like "maybe I had these people all wrong", or "maybe I'm a bit prejudiced".
In the end, the show becomes just as much about us as it is them.
THE ARTIST'S VIEW
Wednesday, 10.35pm, SBS On Demand
Unless you're an utterly devoted fan of AC/DC you might be better off avoiding this show.
In fact, even devoted fans might turn off.
An off-shoot of the series Video Killed the Radio Star, this series takes one artist's music videos and gets them to tell stories about them.
Here guitarist Angus Young and singer Brian Johnson share the mic with video director David Mallet and the result is less than illuminating.
The band spend most of their time remembering in-jokes around the shooting of the video, with some of Johnson's being sexist and demeaning.