Outsiders (Australian TV program)
Outsiders is an Australian television news and commentary show broadcast on Sky News Australia. The show is currently co-hosted by editor of The Spectator magazine Rowan Dean, The Friday Show host Rita Panahi, and The Daily Telegraph opinion editor James Morrow, and features long-form discussion of political issues between conservative contributors.
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| Country of origin | Australia |
| Original language | English |
| No. of seasons | 4 |
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| Running time | 1–2 hours (incl. adverts) |
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| Network | Sky News Australia |
| Release | 4 December 2016 – present |
The show is broadcast from the Sky News Centre in the Sydney suburb of Macquarie Park. The series debuted in a pilot episode on 4 December 2016, and began airing weekly in 2017, before the format expanded to a two-hour Sunday morning edition and hourly primetime episodes in 2018. From October to December 2018, the show aired late at night, four times a week.
The show debuted with three co-hosts, two of whom were fired for separate controversial comments. Former Labor leader Mark Latham was the show's primary host until his employment was terminated by Sky News on 29 March 2017, following several controversial statements made on the show. On 2 November 2018, former Liberal MP Ross Cameron became the second co-host to be sacked, after using offensive racial stereotypes to refer to Chinese people.