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The Assembly (TV series)
2024 Australian TV series From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Assembly is a seven-part Australian television documentary series on ABC TV, which premiered on 20 August 2024.
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Format
Hosted and mentored by Leigh Sales,[1] the documentary series focuses on a group of 15 autistic journalism students and lecturers at Macquarie University[2] as they prepare for and eventually interview some of Australia's best-known personalities.[3] The students have been given paid internship at the ABC.[4] The series' format is based on French series Les Rencontres du Papotin, created by Éric Toledano and Olivier Nakache.[1]
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Production
The seven-part series is produced by Mark Fennessy's Helium Pictures for the ABC,[5] with production beginning in May. Fennessy also executive produces the Australian version alongside director Melissa Maclean, Therese Hegarty,[1] Vanessa Oxlad and Julie Hanna.[6]
Season overview
Episodes
Season 1 (2024)
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Reception
The first episode of The Assembly received an overnight average audience of 577,000 viewers,[21] alongside a national audience reach of 859,000 viewers.[9]
David Knox of TV Tonight gave the series four out of five stars.[12] Debi Enker of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote about the series' tone, "The tone of The Assembly, like other ABC factual productions, is warm. ... So in addition to being a worthwhile and engaging undertaking, it represents a breath of fresh air in terms of TV interviews, particularly those featuring politicians, but not confined to them.[22] The show has also been criticised as being inspiration porn, with further criticism over the fact that the journalism students, initially, were not to be paid.[23][undue weight? – discuss]
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