Gogglebox families divided on Bali Nine
Bali Nine death row duo Andrew Chan and Myuran Sukumaran have the sympathy of most, but not all of the households on observational TV show Gogglebox.
The Network Ten and Foxtel series captures the responses from from 10 households while they watch TV.
"Because these people are choosing to do the wrong thing, how many families are suffering, how many families break-up because of this," says Delpechitra family matriarch Tracey.
She was watching a Four Corners feature story on Chan and Sukumaran, who have been on death row since 2006 and are expected to be executed in the coming weeks.
The Sydney men were behind an attempt by four drug mules, caught at Denpassar airport, trying to smuggle eight kilograms of heroin strapped to their bodies.
Melbourne-based empty nesters Lee and Keith said they should not have been on death row for nine years even though "they knew what they were getting into".
"They were the two main guys," says Keith, while Lee responds: "it shouldn't be this long."
They also have a go at the Australian Federal Police for tipping off Indonesian authorities about the drug run.
"We pick them up here, let's face it... they get a year, two years ... a slap on the wrist," says Keith.
The Dalton family, headed by husband and wife Matt and Kate, certainly blames the AFP and agree with barrister Bob Myers, who represents the family of Bali Nine mule Scott Rush, that the AFP has blood on its hands.
"Why couldn't they arrest them in Australia? Why did they let them do it," Matt says with a touch of despair.
His wife Kate chimes in: "That's blood on their hands now."
The show is filmed in the week leading up to it airing first on Foxtel's Lifestyle channel and then Ten on Thursday nights.
* Gogglebox airs on Thursday's at 9pm on Network Ten.
