News: David Hicks' first TV interview on 7PM Project

In what is a massive coup for the Monday-Friday news program The 7PM Project, it has nabbed an exclusive first interview with ex-Guantanamo Bay detainee David Hicks.



Ten are promoting this as Hicks' "First Australian TV interview" in which he goes "one-on-one" with 7PM co-host Charlie Pickering.



It will apparently be "Tell all", with nothing off limits.



Even though the ABC say they aren't after ratings, they must be slightly peeved that 7PM have stolen their thunder a touch. They have been promoting their Australian Story Special (which has been brought forward to this Tuesday August 30 at 8:30PM) by saying "For the first time on television, David Hicks tells his story".

Either way, they should both make compelling viewing (hopefully they approach the interview from slightly different angles... Though it's unlikely). 

And it's also the coup the 7PM Project so desperately needs- it has been whacked in the ratings by The Block of late. It could jump start the show's last quarter of the year to justify it returning for 2012 (which it will, at this stage).