“You Can’t Ask That” will be back for Season 7 on ABC TV and ABC iView from May 25.
All eight episodes will be available on streaming platform iView at once, while on linear television, one episode will air per week at 9 p.m. on Wednesdays.
The ABC production first aired in 2016. It features misunderstood, judged or marginalised Australians answering anonymous questions from the public.
Season 7 will kick off with an episode on juvenile detention. It will question how we deal with some of the most damaged kids in society.
Dylan Voller will feature in the episode. Voller was in and out of juvenile detention from just 11 years old. Footage of him shackled to a chair in an Alice Springs Correctional Centre featured in a 2016 episode of ABC program “Four Corners” titled ‘Australia’s Shame’. It prompted then Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull to announce a Royal Commission into the treatment of youths in the child protection and youth detention systems in the Northern Territory.
In “You Can’t Ask That” Season 7, there will also be episodes on bogans, postnatal depression, gay men, models, prescription drug dependency and addiction, porn stars and dementia.
The show won the Rose d’Or award for Best Reality or Factual Entertainment program in 2017. In the same year, it also won three UN Media Awards for Promotion of Disability Rights and Issues, Promotion of Social Cohesion and Promotion of Empowerment of Older People.
Local versions have also been produced and broadcast around the world, including in Israel, Belgium, the Netherlands and Canada.
In 2020, it was also revealed “You Can’t Ask That” was on its way to the U.S. in a deal with production company Current Flow Entertainment. The U.S. producer reportedly picked up both English and Spanish-language versions of the show.