Go Back To Where You Came From, the brilliant, game-changing SBS documentary series which took six Australians (including some of the most terrifyingly real TV bogans since The Shire) with wildly varying views on refugees on an eye-opening 25 day journey mirroring that taken by an asylum seeker, has won Most Outstanding Non-Scripted Entertainment at the 41st International Emmy Awards ceremony in New York overnight.
SBS aired two series of Go Back To Where You Came From. The first, in 2011, featured everyday Australians, while the second, in 2012, featured high profile politicians and media personalities like Angry Anderson, Catherine Deveny and Peter Reith journeying to deadly, desolate and desperate locales like Mogadishu, Somalia, Iraq, Kabul, Kenya and Jordan, to experience first hand the terrifying undertaking of getting to Australia illegally.
Producer Michael Cordell of Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder accepted the award, thanking SBS for “backing such a bold piece of television…It’s great to see an original Australian show resonate so strongly around the world. We’re incredibly proud of this series. To be nominated was wonderful but to win is sublime.”
The series previously won the 2012 Rose d’Or Award for the Best Television Program in any genre, and the 2012 Logie for Most Outstanding Documentary Program.
Via SMH
