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Vale Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee 2026
Over the years, we’ve not exactly expressed huge enthusiasm for Guy Montgomery’s Guy-Mont Spelling Bee. Its fundamental flaw, we’ve repeatedly argued, is that it’ll never be as funny as you’d like a show like that to be, because the main point of the show – spelling words – cannot be made funny. Yet, somehow, in... Read More »
Tea and misfits – Another Cuppa? with Granny Bingo
Granny Bingo has built up a cult following in the last decade for its comedy/drag bingo nights and live shows, with performers Thomas Jaspers, Kyle Minall and Scott Brennan playing pensioners Edith Vale, Maureen McGillicuddy and Caroline Springs. In Another Cuppa? with Granny Bingo (available on iView, YouTube or your favourite podcasting platform), the trio... Read More »
Vale Bad Company, Hello Make That Movie
Creating a hilarious ensemble sitcom isn’t easy, but some approaches work better than others. And as we say goodbye to Bad Company on the ABC and hello to Make That Movie on HBO Max, it’s not hard to identify which approach is funnier. Bad Company is a show that should have generated a lot more... Read More »
Glenn and Mick’s Celebrity Intervention – A Reassessment
Six weeks into Glenn and Mick’s Celebrity Intervention, and it’s time for a reassessment. If you watched the first episode, with Carrie Bickmore, and walked away never to return, we get you. Honestly, we thought we’d be writing about this show again much sooner, because after that opener, it was clearly going to be axed... Read More »
Let’s get Quizzical
Sky News Australia’s current relationship with comedy is being clipped and joked about on The Weekly with Charlie Pickering and The Cheap Seats, but can it generate its own laughs with the new weekly comedy quiz show Quizzical? Er, no. It cannot. And based on its first episode (which aired last Sunday, 17th May), it... Read More »
What a croc! Deadloch series 2
If you like your murder mysteries with a side order of comedy, then good news, Kate McCartney and Kate McLennan’s Deadloch is back for a new series on Amazon. And in this second series, Detectives Dulcie Collins (Kate Box) and Eddie Redcliffe (Madeleine Sami) are in Darwin, trying to solve the mystery of what happened... Read More »
Vale Dog Park
Dog Park, the ABC’s post-Muster Dogs, canine-focused dramedy, about people who’ve become friends because they take their dogs to the same park, has ended. We will not miss it. Because while there’s worse TV out there, it’s hard to like a show which spends more time trying to tug at your heartstrings than it does... Read More »
Vale Sam Pang Tonight series 2
Did anyone have a 16-episode tonight show on their comedy bingo card this year? We sure didn’t. But Sam Pang Tonight defied expectations. Firstly, because it stayed on air. Secondly, because it was pretty good. We’re not saying Sam Pang Tonight is charting new areas of comedy – and it’s certainly well aware that it’s... Read More »
Here comes the bride. Again.
What’s the one thing that links many of Australia’s most average sitcoms of the last five years? No, it’s not that SOMETHING VERY DRAMATIC happens in the second-to-last episode. Although that does often happen too. * The answer is that there’s a wedding – or a wedding of sorts – in the final ever episode.... Read More »
Mother and Son vs Mother and Son
The other day, the Sydney Morning Herald published an article called Is the new Mother and Son already better than the original? Our reviewer says yes. It’s a legitimate question to ask about Matt Okine’s remake of the fondly remembered 80s/90s sitcom, although it’s notable that the SMH didn’t ask it when series one dropped... Read More »