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Can We Help?

Paul Kalina, reviewer
August 21, 2008

Tonight, a father in Britain tracks down his son in Perth after an absence of more than 20 years.


  Can We Help?

Can We Help?


Type
Lifestyle, Entertainment
Channel
ABC
Date
Friday August 22
Time
6:30 PM

Like Collectors, Can We Help? is another in the ABC's inventory of cheap, cheerful and inoffensive panel shows. It, too, is a well-oiled machine, albeit one that is slowly approaching its use-by-date and perhaps in need of an overhaul. For starters, who is it aimed at? Hard to tell when faced with less-than-compelling questions, such as "What is phishing?", "When was the internet invented?" and "How big is the internet?". (Official answer: So big Google has stopped counting; unofficial answer, who cares?). Geoff Hutchison's history segment recreates the 1934 aeroplane race from London to Australia, a graphologist explains, albeit unsatisfactorily, the connections between a person's handwriting and their personality but it's left to the ever-reliable, warm-and-fuzzy reunion segment to tide the viewer over. Tonight, a father in Britain tracks down his son in Perth after an absence of more than 20 years.

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