The Contrarians

The Contrarians is an Australian television news and commentary program broadcast weekly on Sky News Australia throughout the week.

The series focuses on mainly political topics, with the program's host being joined by a panel of usually three commentators (sometimes four), who generally have opposing political views, and discuss the issues of the week. The programs aired at 4pm on Friday afternoons, in the timeslot PM Agenda holds on other weekdays.

The program was hosted by Peter van Onselen until 2014 when he was given his own primetime program PVO Newshour. From the start of 2014, the program had rotating guest hosts each week from the existing Sky News family of contributors or presenters, including Paul Murray, Stan Grant, Helen Dalley, Ross Cameron and even van Onselen.

In July 2014, the format of the program was changed slightly when Kristina Keneally and Ross Cameron were made regular co-hosts of the program, and they would be joined by just two panellists, plus occasional interviews with journalists or commentators outside the studio.

The program was broadcast from the Sky News centre in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park.

On 19 September 2014, The Contrarians was replaced by a new series Keneally and Cameron, which is of a similar format.^[1]

However, the format was absorbed into original host Peter van Onselen's new program PVO Newshour, to air as a "week in review" segment during the back half of the Thursday episode.^[2]

See also

• List of Australian television series

References

External links

• Sky News Official site