Coolum Bananas
The Strange Calls (starting Tuesday on ABC2, but already available on iView) is so good it’s already picked up for a US pilot. Well,... Read More »
Overseas Sales
Rebel Without Applause
Now that she’s a big Hollywood star – appearing in the now-in-cinemas What to Expect When You’re Expecting for one thing – it’s sometimes hard to remember that Rebel Wilson was also solely responsible for perhaps one of the most pointless “comedy” series ever shown on Australian television: Bogan Pride. A leaden, cripplingly unfunny show... Read More »
Queer eye for the misogynist line
Corrine Grant and Tom Ballard got in to a spat the other day about the attitude of gay male comics towards women.... Read More »
And in overseas news
Remember that story last year about how Britain's Channel 4 were working on a supposed rip-off of The Gruen Transfer called The Mad Bad Ads Show? If you don't, we blogged about it here. Either way, it went to air on Friday night and we've managed to see... Read More »
Rove (B)la(h)
Nice looking but dull, that's how you might describe Rove McManus; it's also not a bad description of his chat show Rove LA, which finished up the other night.... Read More »
Getting Laid In The Shade
The reason why television executives are generally held in such low regard is because their main job related skill involves treating their job as one big test then spending all their time looking over other peoples’ shoulders to try and find out the answers – or as they used to call it back at school,... Read More »
At Home with David
Yesterday we saw this story in The Age, largely based on this story from UK newspaper The Independent, indicating that At Home with Julia is being re-made by a British broadcaster. Or it did if you didn't delve too deeply into either article, because both of them word things very carefully whilst hyping what there is of a story to high... Read More »