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Speaker 1: Right now, has reality TV gone too far? This is

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Speaker 1: Married at First Sight in Australia. It's always been a

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Speaker 1: controversial show, but now there's an uproar because the equivalent

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Speaker 1: over there of Work Safe is investigating Channel nine, and

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Speaker 1: that's the production company that makes Maths, raising questions about

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Speaker 1: its future. It's all after an episode where a groom

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Speaker 1: punches of wall and frustration. Entertainment reporter of Carl Pushman

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Speaker 1: is with us Carl good evening, No, right, how are

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Speaker 1: you good? Thank you? So the debate here is apparently

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Speaker 1: they're hiring casting people with domestic violence issues, right, And.

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Speaker 2: Some people say, well, that's bad.

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Speaker 1: But then isn't this reality TV?

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Speaker 2: I mean, isn't that what it should be?

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Speaker 3: Well, reality TV should be bad. That's what makes it

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Speaker 3: so good to watch, the entertaining to watch. Should you

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Speaker 3: be hiring people with domestic abuse violence in their past?

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Speaker 3: Probably not. You can still get good bad people that

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Speaker 3: don't necessarily have that in their past. That incident wasn't

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Speaker 3: actually shown on the show, so there's no way we

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Speaker 3: can tell what happened or see exactly what happened. But

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Speaker 3: by all the accounts that have been on the show,

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Speaker 3: it does sound pretty serious. You know, you can't go

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Speaker 3: around punching wolves just because you're a little bit upset

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Speaker 3: about something. And the show's response hasn't been particularly great either.

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Speaker 3: They have kept the guy on obviously, ratings, viewings, we're

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Speaker 3: talking about it now. It's all this, you know, what's

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Speaker 3: the old saying, no publicity is bad publicity. Yeah, perhaps

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Speaker 3: it is if their safe workplace is getting involved. Maybe

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Speaker 3: that is when we've found that line.

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Speaker 2: Is there a because I feel like we have this

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Speaker 2: debate sut of every couple of years about particularly maths

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Speaker 2: in Australia, it's a particularly feral version of the show.

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Speaker 1: Is there a genuine risk this time it could be

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Speaker 1: shut down?

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Speaker 3: Do you reckon? I don't. I don't think they'll close

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Speaker 3: it down. I mean that risk is there, like once

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Speaker 3: the authorities are involved, possibly if they get stung with

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Speaker 3: some massive, multimillion dollar fine that makes it impossible to continue. Perhaps,

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Speaker 3: But it's such a juggernaut of entertainment and it's become

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Speaker 3: so much part of like the yearly viewing calendar that

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Speaker 3: I think they'll fight pretty hard to keep it on screens.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, and it's making them too much money. Carl, thank

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Speaker 1: you for that Carl Puschman Entertainment reported.

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