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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
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 »
The winners of the Australian Tumbleweeds 2010 have been announced. See who won at... Read More »
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 is now open. Head to http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/tumbliesvotes to make your... Read More »
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 »