Jude Dobson: from Sale of the Century to TV parenting...

Interview – 2016

Jude Dobson won fame as co-host of game show Sale of the Century. She went on to present a range of lifestyle series including Open Home and Alive and Kicking. In 1997 she began hosting five nights a week magazine show 5:30 with Jude. Since then Dobson has set up her own production company and creates media content about parenting.

In this ScreenTalk interview, Dobson talks about:

How Sale of the Century beat out the news in the ratings
Dealing with negative mail from the public
Her thoughts looking back on the show
Moving into working on lifestyle shows on TVNZ
Working with future mayor Dave Cull on Open Home
Her initial reluctance to take on hosting 5:30 with Jude
How a lampshade upset a viewer
Becoming a panelist on agony aunt show How's Life?
Having to find funding for her parenting show Nought to Five
The reason she set up Raising Children
Enjoying doing the Family Health Diary infomercials

This video was first uploaded on 19 July 2016, and is available under this Creative Commons licence. This licence is limited to use of ScreenTalk interview footage only and does not apply to any video content and photographs from films, television, music videos, web series and commercials used in the interview.

Interview, Camera and Editing – Andrew Whiteside

I think that is the way — you need to collaborate. We can all only do bits of the pie, but you can make a pretty good pie if you all cook together.

– Jude Dobson on collaborating with people and charities for Raising Children

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