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What We Talk About When We Talk About Not Having Anything to Talk About
Hey, where’d all the scripted comedy go? When we started this blog the basic idea was to do two or three posts a week, because each week there was usually two or three shows on television we could talk about. There’d be something new, something in the middle of its run, maybe a press release... Read More »
You Got Me Singing (Mad as) Hell’s Bells
First out of the blocks and we’re off with a bang. Australian comedy needed a kick up the bum after a lacklustre 2021 and Mad as Hell was just the show to do it. Or just possibly we were starved of a good laugh over the Summer of Omicron and we’re wildly overreacting. You be... Read More »
Summer Lovin’, Happens So… well, not that fast actually
Press release time! One holiday house. Eight love stories.New comedy Summer Love checks in to the ABC in 2022. ABC, Screen Australia and Film Victoria are pleased to announce the enchanting new eight-part anthology series, Summer Love will air in 2022. Produced by Gristmill and created by award-winning duo Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope, Summer... Read More »
What What in the Butt (of television)
Last year’s 2020:The Last Year of Television was one of the hidden gems of 2020, a snarky Charlie Brooker-influenced takedown of Australian television – not exactly the toughest subject to kneecap, but considering the media-inspired glow that still somehow persists around an “industry” built almost entirely on selling vacuum cleaners, a necessary job none the... Read More »
Be Prepared
Physical comedy! That’s something we haven’t seen on Australian television in a while. There’s a bunch of reasons to come away from the first episode of Preppers thinking “…ok?”, but the fact it features lead and co-creator Nakkiah Lui struggling with an obstacle course is one big tick in its favour. Preppers is the story... Read More »
Don’t You Remember The Days of the Old School Yard
As we reach the tail end of the comedy year, which is a fairly inaccurate way to describe things as the tail end is where the shit comes from and that’s an all year-round situation, it’s hard not to reflect on the 2021 that was. And then hurriedly try to reflect even further back because... Read More »
Upfront and Downhill
It’s that thrilling time of year when the networks start to talk up their big plans for the year to come. Well, “thrilling” if you’re a big fan of self-funded reality programming; the days when Australia’s commercial networks provided anything more than a series of shabby game shows with a news service attached are firmly... Read More »
You Better Prep Yourself Before You Wreck Yourself
Press release time! The end is nigh! New ABC comedy Preppers premieres next month Preppers premieres on ABC TV and ABC iview on Wednesday 10 November 9.10pm ABC’s new six-part comedy series Preppers launches on ABC TV on Wednesday November 10 at 9.10pm, with all episodes available to binge on ABC iview. Starring the multi-talented... Read More »
Vale Wednesday Night Comedy just in General Really
So Fat Pizza: Back in Business ended on yet another knife-edge cliffhanger that’ll be desperately written out of continuity if the series ever comes back. What, you thought just because Paul Fenech has two series for 7Mate next year that he’d actually wrap this one up? Housos: The Thong WarriorFrom the suburbs to the outback,... Read More »