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Channel 7 Launches Legal Action Over Boland Memoir

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Channel 7 has launched legal action over TV producer Adam Boland’s upcoming autobiography. A directions hearing is taking place in Sydney this morning.

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Boland, who was the mastermind behind the success of the breakfast TV show ‘Sunrise’. Later he moved to Channel Ten and launched their ill-fated breakfast show ‘Wake Up!’.

In a statement Melbourne University Press CEO Louise Alder said the publisher of the book would be standing by the author.

“We are renowned for publishing books with spine. We stand by this very personal book and the author.

“Brekky Central is a celebration of television. Adam Boland, one of the industry’s wunderkind, takes us inside the dream factory. He is brutally frank about himself, the highs and lows and the personal cost of success. Brekky Central will be read by the many fans of breakfast television, an army of sensitive media executives and overworked life coaches around the nation. It is a book for our times.” Adler said.

Brekky CentralChannel 7 has declined to comment to media on their motivation behind the legal action, but commentators are speculating that there is concern over how their flagship show ‘Sunrise’ is depicted in the memoir and whether Boland may have broken a confidentiality agreement.

Last year the producer opened up about his challenges with mental health and his bi-polar diagnosis. Boland shared his story on an episode of the ABCTV program ‘Australian Story’.

 

In advance publicity for the book Boland has described it as lifting the lid on the commercially profitable and highly competitive world of breakfast TV.

Melbourne University Press recently published media executive Kim Williams book ‘Rules of Engagement’ that reveled the inner workings of News Corp.

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