Starting August 25, 8.30pm on Channel 7
According to the Hun online:
As speculation about Cousins' future reaches fever pitch, Channel Seven is pushing to extend its documentary deal with Cousins.
The confronting Cousins story Such Is Life will run in two one-hour parts next week, but Seven is also keen to lock Cousins in for a tell-all interview.
It is understood that no mention of an exclusive interview was made when Seven agreed to pay a significant six-figure sum for the documentary.
Now, Seven may be prepared to pay extra to get Cousins, his father Bryan and perhaps a drugs specialist to feature in a round-table interview.
If talks are successful, Seven would show an hour of Such Is Life from 8.30pm on Wednesday, August 25, but treat viewers to a two-hour blockbuster the next night.
The second part of the documentary would screen from 8.30pm, followed by another hour of Cousins reflecting on the documentary and his career.
Under that scenario, the second hour would run into first hour of The Footy Show on rival Channel Nine.
Sources have confirmed the Michael Gudinski-produced documentary is still being massaged, with the final two minutes likely to be filled by the events of this week.
The documentary is an in-your-face look at Cousins' battle with drugs.
glenrowaN? revoltutionary? hung in ole melbourne goal? nah just a footballer from the 90s.
who doesn't have a bit of a mancrush on cuz?
gee cameras were big in the 2000's
he's short
He's nearly run me over twice in his car, once through a red light. I hope they didn't get my reaction on film, the language used was quite unsavoury
Isn't he still on the business? Bit premature.
What a fucking circus.
I used to play soccer against that arresting officer with the white glove on. We used to call him 'Matt Le Bean'' on account of him looking like the love child of Matt Le Blanc and Mister Bean.
The greatest thing about Ben Cousins is that I often get to recount that story.
You should have called him Joey Blackadder.
tomorrow night!
from the sneak preview: ''i would train and obsess and play good footy, and the thing that would get me through was i knew at the end of that was that i was going to annihilate and launch into as much drugs as i could get my hands on''.
Apparently includes ''grainy close-ups of Cousins inhaling ice for the umpteenth time through his treasured glass pipe.''
Since when can they show that sort of thing on prime-time television?
When it's educational!
New promo for the doco just released
Loads of guns. Nice.
I'll probably still watch this but the whole premise of this doco is abhorrent.
So are we to learn that if you are a irresponsible junkie and you've had your best friend die presumably because of a drug overdose, you associate with drug dealers and criminals, and put your family through hell you'll come out smelling like roses because you're good looking and a rich footballer.
Sickening.
That's right, Dr Michael Carr-Gregg said all parents of teenagers should watch it!
(So pumped for this.)
only one shot of ben on the pipe so far, but it was a good one.
cut short!
What happened?!
i don't think it's over.
the second hour is tomorrow, but this goes until 9:30
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i find that sport is pretty much the only form of true escapism that i can indulge in... music is the opposite for me. the irony is that i follow richmond, so my only form of escapism makes me totally miserable.
I'm impressed that he was such a good player with such an extreme drug dependency.
This was my experience. Plus I didn't even get to see LeBean.
I should imagine the music you make makes you pretty miserable as well, fuzz.
ZING!
The worst thing about this whole fiasco is the association of Ned Kelly and his phrase with Ben Cousins. Fuck off Ben, you're no Ned.
Look at these fucking t-shirts they're selling
i agree to a point, but honestly, i think they're in the minority and not worth worrying about. loads of chats/peoeple into music/people in bands love + play sport too. sport is the fucking best.
lol
it's the greatest thing in the world
i'm sick of it... free drugs, free booze, stretched limos, penthouse suites, groupies blowing me dawn to dusk... i'm in a rut and i want out....
but, yeah, sport rulez.
fuck this show.
doco my arse - it's nothing but PR to show him as ''rehabilitated'' so he can kick off his career in the media/dancing with the stars next year now he's retired.
Did you guys even watch it?
The whole point (albeit done in a pretty primitive and broad manner) was that it wasn't about being spoilt or having too much money, but rather the fact that some people are predisposed to drug addiction.
Having said that, the guy was pretty lucky to have the money and support he had. For every Ben Cousins theres a heap out there who dont have that support and often end up dead. A documentary on the reality of drug addiction would have been a lot better.
It's just a shame that you need a star footballer and a media circus to bring attention to these things...
but also a blessing. The Australian Drug Foundation said their calls to the hotline increased 15 fold, and visits to their website were up some ridiculous %
Well that's really great news, and should surely make the doco worth it
it's pretty weird having the footy media (SEN) clumsily talking about this stuff on the car radio when I'm driving former addicts to and from counseling/clinical appointments/rehab/picking up methadone/etc. the average punter has no idea. guess it is raising awareness in it's own shitty way.
And there's plenty of sport in being an artist, competitive, or just being an overall dick
and there's plenty of art in sport.
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testify, bebop!
I genuinely believe that we're all predisposed to love sport, something that stretches back to caveman hunting days. A lot of people get that through playing, watching sport today, others get it through putting that competitiveness into other fields, such as arguing on the interwebz. Ironically, sometimes about sport.
People always act genuinely shocked when they find out I like football and cricket, which I find frankly ridiculous.
I didn't watch the doco because I was too busy watching the entire second season of True Blood. Thanks for listening.