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Andrew Mercado
In 2012, Andrew Mercado was named by industry magazine Encore as one of TV's "seven significant commentators" while The Sunday Telegraph described him as a "walking TV encyclopaedia".

Building on a diverse and distinguished career in entertainment, Andrew now appears alongside Deborah Hutton on THE FOXTEL MOVIE SHOW seen on Arena and the Movie Preview Channel.

Andrew is a regular on Sydney’s top rating breakfast radio show Jonesy and Amanda on WS FM where he talks about television. He is also regularly heard on multiple ABC radio stations across Australia, including many appearances on Richard Glover's Drive show on 702 Sydney.

Andrew also writes for the industry magazine bible on all things television, TV WEEK, with a regular weekly opinion column.

Andrew Mercado spent his youth hanging out with the projectionist at his local suburban picture theatre, The Planet.

After 13 years in the travel industry, including a 5 year stint as Manager – Canada for the Queensland Tourist and Travel Corporation, Andrew decided what he really wanted to do was work in television and his first position was at Movie World Studios as the Location Manager for TV series PARADISE BEACH.

Following this, he became the Unit Publicist for TV shows such as THE NEW ADVENTURES OF FLIPPER and PACIFIC DRIVE.

With the opening of Foxtel, he decided to move to Sydney where he soon found himself working as the publicist at music station Channel [V]. Within a year he had been spotted and moved into an on-air role where he has been working ever since. He is still fondly remembered by a generation of music fans as ‘Super Mercado’ after becoming Channel [V]'s inaugural entertainment reporter in 1998 and then the first regular face on sister channel Music Max. Whilst he would work simultaneously on both stations, eventually he crossed over to Max full time to create, produce and host the panel show THE KNOW.

Now Andrew Mercado is one of Australia's best-loved and busiest media commentators on all things pop culture.

He appeared weekly for seven years as the Movies Man on KERRIE-ANNE and continues today on MORNINGS with Sonia Kruger and David Campbell. As a media commentator, he is also regularly featured on the Nine Network's A CURRENT AFFAIR and he even sent this role up in a skit with the Chaser boys on THE HAMSTER WHEEL.

From 2009 to 2012, Andrew produced and hosted THE PLAYLIST, a twice-weekly TV review show with a revolving panel, for premium drama channel Showcase on Foxtel.

For several years Andrew wrote a full page about television for THE SUNDAY TELEGRAPH.

He is also a bestselling author having released the encyclopaedia SUPER AUSSIE SOAPS in 2004, a novel about the history of Australia's locally-made television serial dramas. And he contributed to the book 100 GREATEST FILMS OF AUSTRALIAN CINEMA and co-wrote a guide about Aussie TV series PRISONER for the world's biggest DVD box set.

Over the years he has interviewed such A-listers as Kylie Minogue, Robbie Williams, Marianne Faithfull and Fleetwood Mac (to name just a few) but he often gets more of a thrill meeting Aussie TV legends through his work as a TV Historian for the National Film and Sound Archive. He also supervises the release of classic TV shows like NUMBER 96 onto DVD for Umbrella Entertainment.