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Audience call for new medical studio show

PRESS RELEASE

Australian production company Wild Fury is looking for audience members to take part in a new and exciting factual entertainment series called Save Your Life Tonight!

Save Your Life Tonight features real people having real medical screenings and procedures in front of a live studio audience. Commissioned by ABC TV and supported by Screen Queensland and Queensland Health, Save Your Life Tonight will explore the major health issues affecting Australians today. Audience members will have the opportunity to participate if they wish by having simple checks that could reveal the health risks they face. Filmed in a specially built ‘studio’ at the Royal Brisbane and Women’s Hospital, the series will focus heavily on prevention.

The series also features a host (TBC), panel of medical experts and celebrity guests, over six episodes the series will cover issues to do with Heart Disease, Skin Cancer, Weight and Diabetes, Mental Health, Lungs Disease (including Asthma) and the most common cancers in Australian – Breast, Bowel and Prostate.

Wild Fury are looking for Brisbane and South East Queensland based participants to be part of the studio audience at least one day between the 14th – 17th November 2013. They can choose the episode(s) they wish to attend!

For More Information:

http://www.abc.net.au/tv/programs/saveyourlifetonight.htm
https://www.facebook.com/saveyourlifetonight

How To Apply:

Applicants can email info@wildfury.com.au or call 07 3891 7717 to register their interest. Applicants need to include:
1. Name(s) of people attending
2. Their age(s)
3. Contact number for each attendee
4. The episode(s) you wish to attend

Recording Dates:

14th November (evening): Mental Health Test: Complete a questionnaire on arrival to studio.

15th November (evening): Heart Test: Blood Pressure check on arrival to studio.

16th November (morning): Lungs Test: Lung function/blow test on arrival to studio.

16th November (afternoon): Weight and Diabetes Test: Waist measurement and questionnaire on arrival to studio.

17th November (morning): Skin Cancer Test: Simple face skin assessment

17th November (afternoon): Breast, Bowel and Prostate Cancer Test: Complete a questionnaire on arrival to studio.

Production Company:

Wild Fury Pty Ltd
Executive Producer: Veronica Fury
Further information: (07) 3891 7779
 

  1. I suppose it’s not surprising that the ABC is proposing a TV program called Save Your Life Tonight.

    In view of the fact that an increasing number of cancer researchers are questioning the benefits of breast, bowel and prostate screening, and believe they cause more harm than good, the ABC is throwing its charter overboard by becoming the propaganda arm for one side of the debate.

    This year it became clear from randomised controlled clinical trials that there is no overall saving of lives from screening for breast, bowel, lung, prostate or ovarian cancer. At a time like this for the ABC to go out on a limb for one side of the debate is not only a breach of its charter but completely irresponsible as a public broadcaster. To call a program Save your Life in view of the mounting evidence that no lives are save through screening is also misleading advertising.

    Ten years ago, in 2003, the Independent Complaints Review Panel upheld a complaint that the ABC was biased by presenting only one side of the breast cancer screening debate. Apparently nothing has changed in the past 10 years except that the ABC no longer pretends to believes in its charter.

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