Press release time! ABC and Screen Australia on the hunt for more Fresh Blood The ABC and Screen Australia team are once again teaming up to uncover the next generation of great Australian comedy talent through the hugely successful Fresh Blood initiative. Submissions are now open for new and emerging comedy acts to apply. Creators... Read More »
We announce the winner and losers of the Australian Tumbleweeds Awards 2022, honouring the best and worst of Australian... Read More »
Two new comedies have been announced this week: dramedy Colin From Accounts and sketch show We Interrupt This... Read More »
Tomorrow Tonight is back! Wait, what’s Tomorrow Tonight again? Let’s let host Annabel Crabb explain: “On Tomorrow Tonight, we’ll travel forward in time-“ (to a point after this series is over?) “Offering well-known Aussies the chance to answer questions they’ve never before had to face” (“why do you keep getting work despite your obvious lack... Read More »
Press release time! ABC is pleased to announce that filming is underway in Adelaide on the second season of ABC’s food-filled comedy Aftertaste. Embraced by audiences and critics alike, the series features the much-loved Erik Thomson as celebrity chef Easton West, and rising star Natalie Abbott as his niece and pastry chef extraordinaire Diana. They’ll... Read More »
2021 was a year when Australians desperately needed a good laugh. Fortunately, we had Australian comedy to laugh at.... Read More »
You wouldn’t want to say Australian comedy is dead, but the iron lung it’s getting around in is starting to look a little worse for wear. Oh sure, individual comedy series are still being made; people are even having careers in comedy, so long as you put quote marks around “careers” and “comedy”. But the... Read More »
The annual Wharf Revue is one of many live events which has had to move online in 2020. Now in its 20th year, The Wharf Revue is a Sydney institution in which Jonathan Biggins, Drew Forsythe and Phillip Scott satirise local and international politicians. Originally planned as the final ever Wharf Revue, and titled ‘Good... Read More »
Press release time! (geez, it’s been a while – it’s almost as if the industry is in crisis or something) Comedy series All My Friends Are Racist heading in to production Enoch Mailangi, Bjorn Stewart, Kodie Bedford Screen Australia has announced production funding for a new five-part comedy series for ABC iview, with support from... Read More »
If the ABC really wanted to pull a crowd with Shaun Micallef’s On The Sauce, they should have got Mick Molloy to host it. Having Micallef host a mildly anxious series about how maybe drinking is not great for everyone just feels like a natural fit: having Molloy out there desperately trying to fit his... Read More »