ABC sports broadcaster Catherine Murphy jokes that she’s a “girl addicted to sport” and sometimes wonders “if I have any personality left, I watch so much sport”. Case in point: she just spent Sunday night watching the men’s four-hour French Open final between Carlos Alcaraz and Alexander Zverev and was backing up with Monday’s long-weekend AFL matches. Then, on Tuesday morning, she was on News Breakfast presenting the sport.
If that wasn’t enough, she also hosts a daily AFL podcast with former coach Paul Roos. Catherine Murphy is co-hosting the ABC’s new sports panel show, Monday’s Experts. Credit: Wayne Taylor “I’m at the point of the long weekend where I’m putting in eye drops because I’ve been up all night watching the French Open final, which was a bad decision,” says Murphy.
“I should have gone to bed way earlier than I did, so now I’m all eye drops and coffee. Some people have proper long weekends where they actually do things with their friends and family, and I stay up all night watching tennis.” Now Murphy has another sporting commitment to add to her weekly schedule: the ABC’s new sports entertainment show Monday’s Experts , which she will co-host with her sometime News Breakfast colleague and former radio partner Tony Armstrong.
Running for eight weeks, the show is temporarily taking the place of Q+A and is pitched as a comedic take on the week’s sporting events, with a mix of comedians, journalists and talking heads filli.