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S&S Music Factory
Swift & Shift Couriers returns to our screens tonight after a long absence. A long, looong absence. In fact, if various rumours are true, the only reason we’re even seeing it now is because someone very high up in the SBS scheme of things left the network earlier this year. To be even more blunt:... Read More »
Whoever Wins, We Lose (again)
Perhaps sensing weakness in the ABC’s long-running stranglehold on Wednesday night comedy, Ten has decided to once again shift Talkin’ ‘bout Your Generation to an “all-new” timeslot – Wednesday nights at 8.30pm. The later time – made necessary thanks to Ten clogging up the 7.30 / 8pm slots with ratings straggler The Renovators and its... Read More »
Laid 2: Money Never Sleeps
Sorry folks, while we were supposed to have been paying attention to the massive (okay, going from 1.45 to 1.06 million viewers isn’t that bad considering all the pre-show hype) drop in ratings for Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year, we were instead off staring into the heart of the sun. Or the comedy equivalent, which... Read More »
Gruen All Over The Carpet
So The Gruen Transfer returned last night. We should have been paying attention, but we were too busy getting some actual laughs from this: THE producer of hit series The Gruen Transfer, which returns to the ABC this week, has engaged lawyers over what appears to be another plagiarism case featuring a British broadcaster. British... Read More »
Words and Pictures: Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year
So after all the mystery around Hamish & Andy’s Gap Year… it’s a talk show. Not that that’s automatically a bad thing, especially when you’re bringing out wacky diagrams drawn on cue cards. Still, it turned out that the cue cards were pretty much the only way that H&A – best known for radio success,... Read More »
Autopsy Ambulance: Vale Angry Boys
Angry Boys probably isn’t the biggest comedy flop of 2011 – Live From Planet Earth still retains that crown – but the term “massive debacle” isn’t exactly overstating the case. Let’s be blunt: in television it’s ratings that count, and the ratings for Angry Boys have been utterly shithouse. Worse, there’s no way to spin... Read More »
Mind the Gap
Here's what we know: Hamish & Andy's new show for Nine, Hamish & Andy's Gap Year, starts this Thursday. It's filmed in New York. Ryan Shelton is involved. And... that's about it for... Read More »
In review: Totally Full Frontal – Series One
It’s crap. And with the obvious out of the way, let’s get down to business. 1998’s Totally Full Frontal was the third version of the by-now-a-full-decade-old Fast Forward franchise, where television and ad parodies mingled with single gag snippets and traditional comedy sketches to create an hour of, at the very least, television. When most... Read More »
It’s Political Correctness Gone Mad!!
It's been a grim few days for comedy in Australia. Okay, it's been a grim few years. But this last week has been especially bad for those who think that comedy is an area best left up to... Read More »