SBS’s current affairs line-up covers the headlines and beyond in 2022
SBS’s Tuesday night current affairs line-up will return on Tuesday 15 February, with Insight at 8:30pm AEDT and The Feed at 10pm AEDT. Dateline willreturn on Tuesday 15 March at 9:30pm AEDT. In 2022, these series will explore global issues and events, deliver original investigations, and connect audiences with important stories from across Australia.
Insight is Australia’s leading forum for surprising first-person stories and debate at 8:30pm. Presented by Kumi Taguchi, the program will explore a wide range of topics in 2022 including conspiracy theories, catfishing, deathbed confessions, first love, and many more.
In the lead up to Dateline’s return in March, Framedwill be scheduled at 9:30pm. The four-part documentary series was a summer hit for SBS On Demand and is SBS’s most successful digital series to date. Presented by The Feed’s Marc Fennell, it explores the disappearance of Picasso’s Weeping Woman from the National Gallery of Victoria in 1986. It was the most expensive painting in Australia, but you can’t put a price on what it stole from those closest to the case.
Then, on Tuesday 15 March in its usual timeslot at 9:30pm,Australia’s longest-running international current affairs show Dateline will explore global issues that deepen our understanding of the world around us, with stories from Malta, Italy, Mexico, and more. The 2022 season opens with a story on ethnic Kazakhs who appear to be the next target in China’s Muslim repression.
In 2022, The Feed will satiate your curiosity and tackle its most ambitious season to date at 10pm. The multi Walkley award-winning program returns with hosts Marc Fennell and Virginia Langeberg. In the first episode, the team takes an intimate look into the lives of four teenagers, all from very different walks of life, as they navigate the powerful transition from childhood to parenthood. Later, stay tuned for an episode that’s not to be missed and a first for the show, as The Feed comedy team has joined forces with TikTok sensation Tom Cardy and Eurovision’s Montaigne to make an all-singing, all-dancing fever dream original musical about the Australian housing market.
SBS’s current affairs programs tell impactful and distinctive stories from voices that would otherwise be unseen and unheard.
SBS Director of News and Current Affairs, Mandi Wicks, said: “SBS takes pride in our distinctive current affairs line-up, and in 2022, we will look at the headlines and beyond.
“Our programs have a unique approach to breaking down the local and international news most relevant to Australians. They shine a light on individuals and communities, and issues often overlooked, using creative and inquisitive storytelling.”
“It’s clear 2022 will be another huge news year and SBS is committed to keeping our audience informed and inspired with our current affairs line up.”
Insight, 8.30pm
Insight is Australia’s leading forum for discussion and powerful people centred stories. Each week, host Kumi Taguchi uses her unique skills to guide a lively debate on a single topic. Following 2021’s hot topics including Adult ADHD, narcissism, celibacy, favourite children and intimate terrorism, there is nothing Insight won’t explore.
Episode 1 Synopsis
Growing Older, Loving Life
Growing older isn’t what it used to be. With a longer life span, and free from the restrictions of work and family, older Australians are bucking the trends of the previous generations. On this episode of Insight, we meet and celebrate those who are determined to live their best life, regardless of age and societal expectations.
At age 79, Janice Lorraine is a world bodybuilding champion who’s won 13 international titles. When she turns 80 later this year, she’ll be gunning for her next championship win. Kelli Brushett is a divorced grandmother who helped raise her first grandchild for the first three years of his life. While she originally planned to grow older with her husband and travel the country, she’s now ready to leave everything behind and take on a new solo adventure. For 76-year-old businesswoman, socialite and reality TV star, Christa Billich, life is still full of fun, good friends, parties, tantric sex, and plastic surgery. Christa has been married to her 87-year-old husband, world-renowned artist, Charles Billich, for 35 years. Charles still works every day and neither of them plan to slow down any time soon.
Dateline, 9.30pm *returns Tuesday 15 March 2022
Dateline is an award-winning international documentary series with a current affairs backbone. Each week, Dateline scours the globe to uncover special characters and a world of daring stories.
Episode 1 Synopsis
Missing in China
As Beijing welcomes the world for the Winter Olympics in February 2022, many countries including Australia, have joined a diplomatic boycott of the games citing ongoing genocide and crimes against humanity in China’s Xinjiang province.
China’s systematic repression of Muslim Uyghurs has been widely reported, but Dateline’s first episode of 2022 Missing in China exposes a brutal new chapter; China’s equally systematic campaign to detain, jail, re-educate and use as forced labour members of the region’s second biggest Muslim minority – the ethnic Kazakhs.
Many have family links across the border in Kazakhstan where Dateline meets the mothers’ husbands and fathers trying to find their missing loved ones or get them released from detention in China.
Evan Williams reports on the growing number of detention facilities and the methods used by Chinese authorities to force Muslims into labour camps. He hears testimony of the incarceration without trial, torture, and sexual assault of detainees, as well as forced sterilizations and abortions on Muslim women, in what has been labelled ‘ethnic cleansing’.
The Feed, 10pm
Presented by Marc Fennell and Virginia Langeberg, the multi Walkley Award-winning program will continue to break new ground with its compelling mix of current affairs, comedy, interviews, and investigations.
Episode 1 Synopsis
Teen Parenthood
Teenage mums and dads face a lot of stereotypes – they’re irresponsible, too young to care for their babies, and will never amount to much. But is there more to the story?
There’s 36-weeks pregnant Ella and her boyfriend Lochlen, both 17, who have always wanted to become teen parents. There’s single mum Emily, also 17-years-old, who’s made a drastic change from a life of crime to preparing for high school graduation – all while nursing a baby on her hip. Then there’s 14-year-old Libby, struggling with postnatal depression and her own mother’s neglect, as she navigates what it means to be a good mum for her daughter.
It takes a village to raise a child but as all four are about to find out, access to support doesn’t come equally. But through each teen’s moments of fear and frustration, there’s also happiness and blinding love – the universal experience of all parents, no matter their age.
SBS’s news and current affairs line-up airs from 8.30pm Tuesdays on SBS
- Insight and The Feed return on Tuesday 15 February
- Dateline returns Tuesday 15 March
- Until then, watch Framed Tuesdays from 15 February at 9:30pm AEDT on SBS
- The Point will air at 7.30pm Tuesdays on NITV and now be followed by an 11.00pm encore on SBS
Insight, The Feed, and Dateline will also be available to stream on SBS On Demand with subtitles in Arabic and Simplified Chinese.