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Vale Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe
Okay, this is going to be a tough one. How do we review an Australian sitcom that’s actually funny? Yeah, sure, Fisk was pretty good too, but c’mon. Fisk didn’t have an episode where a crippling addiction to playing a drumming arcade game really badly was resolved by having someone who’d shrunk themselves down to... Read More »
A Bargain at Twice the Price
The Cheap Seats is back! Still good? Still good! We’re done then? Yeah, pretty much. The show came back earlier this week without skipping a beat. There was plenty of mileage in the Royal Coronation and even more in Melanie Bracewell corpsing while Tim looked on in mock confusion. She’s from New Zealand, he’s short... Read More »
Dead Heat
Press release time! Prime Video Releases the Official Trailer for Australian Amazon Original Series Deadloch When a local man turns up dead on the beach, two vastly different detectives are thrown together to solve the case From the wickedly funny minds of Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan comes the killer new series Deadloch, starring Kate... Read More »
If You Want Fresh Blood, You Got It
Press release time! ABC and Screen Australia on the hunt for more Fresh Blood The ABC and Screen Australia team are once again teaming up to uncover the next generation of great Australian comedy talent through the hugely successful Fresh Blood initiative. Submissions are now open for new and emerging comedy acts to apply. Creators... Read More »
Vale We Interrupt This Broadcast
Well, we’re assuming We Interrupt This Broadcast is done – it’s not in the schedules for next week. And yeah, ten episodes seems as good a point as any to pull the pin. A bit of confusion over its departure seems fitting, considering it began with a blaze (well, flicker) of glory before fizzling out... Read More »
If We Had To Choose One Word
Press release time! “Hilarious” “Awkwardly hilarious” “Renowned content creators” “Hilarious” “Internet sensations” “Perfect format” “Hilarious” Yeah, we’re done... Read More »
Treating the Host with the Contempt he Deserves
After 47 years and thirty five thousand episodes, there’s not a lot left to be said about The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. And even less to be said that’s positive. But in recent weeks we’ve noticed a trend that we can’t help but applaud: more and more often, the guests are treating Pickering like shit.... Read More »
Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe: No Reservations Required
It wasn’t all that long ago that series like Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe were part of the ABC’s regular comedy output. Today? Not so much. After decades of budget cuts and an increasingly tight focus on an audience that’s presumably excited for series like the upcoming Mother & Son reboot, something as relentlessly inventive and... Read More »
Vale Taskmaster Australia
It’s been a long time since local comedy had a future on Australian free-to-air television. Watching comedy – well, the trends in comedy – is a great way to figure out where television is going in general: it’s a niche product on the sharp edge of production, so whatever’s happening there will eventually happen everywhere.... Read More »
And Then I Got High
We don’t often link to profile stories but we think you’ll agree this one is something special: No-one cared who Jason Gann was until he put on the mangy dog suit. For 10 years, Jason played the misanthropic, bong-smoking dog, Wilfred, first in a hit comedy series in Australia on SBS, and then in a... Read More »