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Don’t Mess With Your Ex
Shaun Micallef’s The Ex-PM finished up last week, going out the way it lived – as a half hour sitcom. Which made it a bit of an oddity on Australian television in 2015, as the days when the ABC’s head of scripted comedy was willing to make (or with the funding to make) sitcoms that... Read More »
Wil Anderson: Legacy Hire
The latest series of Gruen wrapped up last week after yet another ratings triumph: Gruen has ended a stellar run on ABC winning its timeslot again with 948,000 viewers. The show has never dipped below 900,000 all season (last week’s 897,000 was eventually adjusted to 900,000). Host Wil Anderson gave no indication if the show would return... Read More »
Adam Hills Does Not Want To Kill Anyone
So first Adam Hills tweeted this: Australia would send a better message to the world if we just hung Pauline Hanson from the Sydney Harbour Bridge. — Adam Hills (@adamhillscomedy) November 15, 2015 And now he’s said this: It occurred to me that if we dangled Pauline Hanson alongside the French flag, perhaps it would... Read More »
A Quick Two Words on Tropfest
As you no doubt know by now, this year’s Tropfest short film festival has been cancelled: Popular short film festival Tropfest has been cancelled after 23 years with founder John Polson saying it may be due to a “terrible and irresponsible mismanagement” of funds. Billed as the world’s largest festival of its kind, Tropfest attracts... Read More »
And Not a Housos Movie in Sight
What’s that you say? We’re experiencing a golden age of Australian cinematic comedy? This we had to see for ourselves – and so we spent our Saturday watching not one but two Australian feature-length comedy films currently screening in cinemas. Shouldn’t the non-awaited third film in Paul Fenech’s Housos trilogy be out by now as... Read More »
Freedom Is The Only Way, Yeah
Press release time! Planet America Special Airs Friday, November 6 at 9pm (AEDT) on ABC News 24 Wednesday, November 4, 2015 — As Barack Obama’s time in the White House comes to an end, a billionaire businessman and a doctor who separated conjoined twins are the frontrunners to become the Republican Party’s Presidential nominee. Clearly... Read More »
Krabby Patties at the Krusty Krab
Recently one of our personal acquaintances took us aside to have a quiet word. “Listen, Team Tumbleweeds,” he said, “I’m fine with you having a go at Josh Thomas and Chris Lilley and those guys – but when you start taking swings at Annabel Crabb, you’ve stepped over the line.” It took us a minute... Read More »
Change or Die
So it seems How Not to Behave has been bumped for its final episode: What appears to be the final episode of How Not to Behave will air at 10pm on ABC this week. The show has made way for the return of Kitchen Cabinet this Wednesday. Meanwhile, the final five episodes of Open Slather have been... Read More »
Aussie As
Press release time! Okay, it’s not quite press release time because we didn’t get the press release, but thanks to the diligence of TV Tonight we can let you know about this: Local sketch comedy welcomes a new contender this week with the premiere of Australia, Get It Up Ya! on C31 Melbourne. The production,... Read More »
On the Turps
It’s been a fairly quiet week in comedy – well, Greg Fleet is back in trouble for drug-related hijinks, but that’s not really news as such – so we figured hey, what better time to get caught up on something we missed first time around. Which would be the second series of Plonk, as recently... Read More »