First out of the blocks and we’re off with a bang. Australian comedy needed a kick up the bum after a lacklustre 2021 and Mad as Hell was just the show to do it. Or just possibly we were starved of a good laugh over the Summer of Omicron and we’re wildly overreacting. You be... Read More »
Last year’s 2020:The Last Year of Television was one of the hidden gems of 2020, a snarky Charlie Brooker-influenced takedown of Australian television – not exactly the toughest subject to kneecap, but considering the media-inspired glow that still somehow persists around an “industry” built almost entirely on selling vacuum cleaners, a necessary job none the... Read More »
Physical comedy! That’s something we haven’t seen on Australian television in a while. There’s a bunch of reasons to come away from the first episode of Preppers thinking “…ok?”, but the fact it features lead and co-creator Nakkiah Lui struggling with an obstacle course is one big tick in its favour. Preppers is the story... Read More »
Despite some difficult subject matter in series two Frayed managed to portray the issues sensitively and keep the audience laughing.... Read More »
Bert Newton was an all-rounder, a man of enormous energy and versatility. In many ways, the ultimate Australian television... Read More »
Paramount+’s sitcom Spreadsheet is a show which assumes there’ll laughs if the main character is an idiot caught up in madcap... Read More »
So Fat Pizza: Back in Business ended on yet another knife-edge cliffhanger that’ll be desperately written out of continuity if the series ever comes back. What, you thought just because Paul Fenech has two series for 7Mate next year that he’d actually wrap this one up? Housos: The Thong WarriorFrom the suburbs to the outback,... Read More »
Hey Hey it's 50 years played it safe, keeping the focus on nostalgia of 20+ years ago rather than the reality of what Hey! Hey!... Read More »
And once again we say goodbye to a series nobody asked for. Usually when the ABC serves up yet another head-scratcher there’s some kind of demented logic behind it – and by “demented logic” we mean “external funding body”. But every now and again there’s a show like Question Everything, some utterly pointless slab of... Read More »
Frayed, unusually for an Australian dramedy, has a compelling and suspenseful plot, lots of funny lines, and well-written, complex... Read More »