SBS introduces bold new series with ADHD, obesity, ageing and menopause as the hot topics of unfiltered conversations
19 September, 2025
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Marc Fennell is throwing a very different kind of dinner party where nothing is off the table
SBS introduces bold new series with ADHD, obesity, ageing and menopause as the hot topics of unfiltered conversations
Tell Me What You Really Think premieres Tuesday, 14 October on SBS and SBS On Demand
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Tell Me What You Really Think is a provocative new SBS series in which Marc Fennell invites Australians to have the real conversations we're often too afraid, or too polite, to start.
With episodes covering ADHD, obesity, ageing and menopause, the four-part series will be available to stream on SBS On Demand from Tuesday, 14 October, and air weekly on SBS.
In each episode Marc invites five diverse Australians to a dinner party to dismantle assumptions and debunk myths about some of the most debated health issues of our time and nothing is off limits. He is asking them to say what they really think.
Across, the series the guests are athletes, drag queens, artists, doctors and everyday, yet extraordinary, people, with little in common except the one health condition that binds them. The lineup includes author Kathy Lette, artist Lindy Lee andAlone Australia S2 winner Krzysztof Wojtkowski. The dinner party becomes a space for empathy, disagreement, laughter and catharsis where brain fog, body image, libido and late-age diagnosis are discussed as easily as wine is poured.
Throughout the series, Marc undergoes his own assessments and the big issues get personal as he gets officially diagnosed with ADHD, submits his body to a longevity lab, lifts weights with seniors and tries to make sense of his own fluctuating body size.
Host Marc Fennell said: I've been interviewing people my whole career, but there's something really different about sitting a bunch of strangers with wildly different perspectives around a dinner table and asking them to say what they really think. It gets fiery, it gets funny, and sometimes it gets unexpectedly personal.
This series isn't about experts lecturing you, it's about real people dismantling assumptions together. I wanted to make something that felt warm and inviting, but also challenged us to have the conversations we usually avoid. And in the process, I found myself confronting things about my own health I'd never really thought about before.
SBS Managing Editor Current Affairs Lanneke Hargreaves said: Tell Me What You Really Think is informative, entertaining and authentically SBS. This is a series of unfiltered, funny and emotionally charged conversations. Marc also bravely puts his own body on the line and confronts some uncomfortable questions about his own life.
Tell Me What You Really Think is an SBS News Documentaries production helmed by executive producer Una Butorac and managing editor Lanneke Hargreaves.
Tell Me What You Really Think series rundown
Episode 1: ADHD. Marc Fennell is joined by five Aussies with ADHD to unpack late-age diagnoses, inner chaos and clarity - and gets his own diagnosis which raises the question: does everyone have ADHD now? Guests: Noongar woman and justice reform advocate Rocket Bretherton, clinical psychologist Daniel Jones,advertising executive and ADHD Australia board member Andrew Thompson, true crime podcaster Emily Webb, Alone Australia S2 winner Krzysztof Wojtkowski.
Episode 2: FAT. What does it mean to be fat in the age of new weight loss drugs like Ozempic? Marc Fennell is joined by five guests to unpack the tension between body acceptance, health, class and medical ethics. Guests: TikTok creator Mark Azzopardi, weight loss drug veteran Donna Bray, former Olympic swimmer Joanna Fargus, fitness influencer Brenda Keane,body positivity activist Mark Mariano.
Episode 3: OLD. Five older guests join Marc Fennell to tackle sex, ageism, autonomy, death and the gap between how society sees them and who they really are. Plus, Marc finds out what it might take to live forever. Guests: Palawa woman and dementia advocate Gwenda Darling (72), sex therapist Linda Kirkman (70), artist Lindy Lee (71), drag performer Stan Munro (84), geriatrician Dr John Ward (81).
Episode 4: MENOPAUSE. A new generation of menopausal women are smashing taboos and shouting from the rooftops. Are we finally making up for decades of neglect, or just catastrophising ageing bodies? Guests: Chinese Medicine practitioner Anissa Au, menopause advocate Julia Browne, journalist and women's health advocate Shelly Horton, author Kathy Lette, women's health and menopause physician Dr Liz Rayment.
Tell Me What You Really Think will be available to stream free as a four-episode box set on SBS On Demand, on 14 October. Episodes will air weekly on SBS, Tuesdays at 8.30pm.
Screeners and images for media use are available on the SBS Screening Room
For a PDF of this media release click here
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SBS introduces bold new series with ADHD, obesity, ageing and menopause as the hot topics of unfiltered conversations 
