Press Releases

Fresh Blood 2024: Sorting the middling from the good and the bad

It’s press release time! It’s always fun when a press release puts the word ‘fresh’ in (sarcastic?) quotation marks so we don’t have to. Seriously, though, is there anyone out there who thinks these were the three most deserving of this year’s Fresh Blood pilots? If we were ranking them in order of how funny... Read More »

Closed For Business

So this dropped today: Was it what we were expecting? Pretty much, but you know what we’re like. What is puzzling about this is not that it looks bad, because it was always going to look bad*. It’s that it seems to have been made by people with absolutely no idea of how Australian television... Read More »

More of the Same Only More So

Press release time! 2025 Is Kicking Off With A Pang! Sam Pang, Big Brother, Talkin’ ‘Bout Your Gen And More Are Coming Home To Network 10 In 2025. If home is where the heart is, then expect a whole lotta love for Network 10’s programming in 2025. Next year 10 brings home some of its... Read More »

Taskmaster of None

Press release time! Step Into Tom Gleeson’s House Of Fun. Taskmaster Australia Season Three Premieres Tuesday, 24 September. Starring Aaron Chen, Concetta Caristo, Mel Buttle, Pete Helliar And Rhys Nicholson. Tuesday night laughs are about to get even wittier as we welcome a new season of Taskmaster Australia to your Tuesday night comedy line-up. You... Read More »

Always With the Questions

Press release time! You won’t believe the outrageous things new comedians say when they stun in Question Everything this October. Or, less sensationally: Question Everything returns this October to tackle the news cycle with fresh comedy talent. Wil Anderson, Jan Fran and an assortment of Australia’s brightest comedic talent are back to share the bad... Read More »

Some Mothers Do ‘Ave Sons

Press release time! Maggie and Arthur return to the ABC for a second season of Mother and Son Fans of the reimagined Australian comedy Mother and Son are in for a treat as the ABC, Screen Australia and Screen NSW confirm a second six-part season will commence filming in Sydney later this year. The incomparable... Read More »

Unemployment Has Its Benefits

Press release time! The Boys Are Back In Town. The Inspired Unemployed (Impractical) Jokers Returns For A Second Season.  The New Season Premieres Wednesday, 14 August At 8.30pm On 10 And 10 Play, Or Stream The Entire Series On Paramount+.   The Jokers are back for a new season, and this time the pranks and... Read More »

Television’s Night of Nights of Nights

Press release(s) time! Let’s get spelling! Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee premieres this August on ABC Get ready to laugh-out-loud as Guy Montgomery and his loyal assistant Aaron Chen test the spelling prowess of some of Australia’s favourite faces on Guy Montgomery’s Guy Mont Spelling Bee. The fast-paced eight-episode series will premiere Wednesday 14... Read More »

Dead Heat for Deadloch

Press release time! No big surprise there, though it took them long enough. Guess they had to find another state willing to cough up the funds (season three they’ll be heading to… the Gold Coast?) before the big announcement. The real interest here’ll be how much comedy this retains, or whether it makes the (small)... Read More »

Superwog Characters Described as “Iconic”, Antics Still Considered “Usual”

Press release time! Theo and Nathan Saidden will bring back their iconic Superwog characters for a new standalone series, Son of a Donkey. The Saiddens will write, direct, produce and star in the series also produced by Princess Pictures for Netflix.  In Son of a Donkey, we meet Theo just as he moves out of... Read More »