Are you struggling with life's problems? Those hard-to-ask questions and scenarios that make you laugh, rage, blush, and shock you? Well, sweet and sour can help! After a 4-year hiatus, Australia's longest-running Community TV Program is being re-imagined in 2024 as a podcast. Tune in each week as our host Gary Mitchell leads a panel of special guests as they attempt to solve life’s problems, as sent in by our listeners. So, park your backside on your couch as we try to solve Australia's problems (and have a laugh along the way!)
HISTORY
Sweet and Sour was Australia’s longest-running community television production made at Perth’s North Metropolitan TAFE studios. The show was produced in collaboration with the North Metropolitan TAFE (Executive Producer: Lawry Hill, Director Media and Education Portfolio), Community TV Broadcasters across Australia and the Sweet and Sour student and community volunteers (Executive Producer/ Chief Mentor Gary Mitchell). The show screened across Australia nationally for over two decades, from 1998 to 2020.
Our First episode screened in 1998 and was broadcast initially from the studios of WA Community Broadcaster Access 31, Sweet and Sour expanded to be broadcast over the entire Community network across Australia. Joining Central TAFE (as it was) in 2003, Sweet and Sour evolved into a successful student mentoring production, producing more than 800 episodes. Sweet and Sour was Australia’s longest-running Community Panel Show and the world’s only enduring (22 Seasons) weekly television production produced entirely by mentored students since its inception.
Executive Producer, Gary Mitchell (Mitch to his mates), was the regular host of Sweet and Sour from 2001 -2020. He was compere of the 2004 National Community TV Awards, The Antennas, broadcast from Melbourne when Sweet and Sour won its first big gong, the National Antenna Award for Australia’s Best Panel Show. Past students who volunteered to work and learn TV production on Sweet and Sour are found in TV and Movie production across the planet. It was a huge Community TV success story.
Sadly in 2020, the COVID-19 Pandemic meant the facilities-sharing agreement with North Metro had to end. With the hope this was a temporary measure, the show produced many @Home episodes, but, when the decision became permanent, the show ceased all production in November 2020.


