ABSTRACT
On a warm summer’s evening in early 2000 our family settled down to watch The Mole on the Seven Network. For weeks beforehand television spot commercials, radio talk shows, newspapers, and magazines had been full of stories and publicity about this new ‘reality’ programme. We were told that the programme had been devised in Belgium and had been enormously popular there and elsewhere in Europe. Now Australia was finally to have its own version of the programme filmed in the wilds of Tasmania. The first episode of the series proved The Mole to be a highly entertaining, thoroughly absorbing adventure series. The programme was hosted by Grant Bowler and featured ten strangers thrown together in an isolated environment to form a team that had to undergo various physical and psychological challenges.
