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Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst Sitcom or Dramedy

Thanks to the trend over the past decade or so for shooting on location and beefing up the drama quotient, there's now almost no need to include anything in your sitcom which is capable of making a real life audience... Read More »

Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst TV Light Entertainment Show

As a format, Good News World could have worked. Make that should have worked: topical comedy (or at least claiming to be a local version of The Daily Show) is a success around the... Read More »

Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst Comedy Personality or Performer

Some comedians you'll watch in anything, whether they're presenting a 300-part documentary on invertebrates or appearing in a panel show about actuarial... Read More »

Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst New Comedy

With short episode runs and rapid axings preventing a lot of new talent from getting any real experience before being thrown onto the main stage, new comedy usually deserves a bit of... Read More »

Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Worst Newcomer

The nominees in this category represent the future of Australian comedy, which means if they don't lift their game we'll be seeing some of them in our other categories in years come...assuming any of them ever work... Read More »

Australian Tumbleweed Awards 2011 – Introduction

2011 was a bad year for Australian comedy – on television at least – but not in the ways we’ve come to expect. Yes, the energy level was down across the board, with old favourites either tanking hard or stuck in a rut while the fresh faces were shunted off to digital channels where they wouldn’t upset the Spicks & Specks... Read More »

2010 Awards Winners Announced!

The winners of the Australian Tumbleweeds 2010 have been announced. See who won at... Read More »

A message from Julian Assange

Now I'm not one to gossip, but...THE AUSTRALIAN TUMBLEWEEDS 2010 goes live on the 26th of January 2011. (But you didn't hear it from me though,... Read More »

Voting starts now!

Voting is now open. Head to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/tumbliesvotes to make your... Read More »

Tumblies 2010 nominations are go!

We are pleased to announce that nominations are now open for the 2010 Australian Tumbleweeds. To make things easier – and because you demanded it – you can nominate through the Survey Monkey website at... Read More »