Australian Tumbleweeds Awards 2023
The results of the Australian Tumbleweeds Awards 2023, in which we honour the best and worst of Australian... Read More »
Tag: Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe
Time to Fix the Home of Home-Grown Laughs
Press release time! And this one’s a classic: Let’s just take a moment to let that sink in. “ABC is the undisputed home of exciting, new, original Australian comedy”. New? Original? Exciting? Maybe not words we’d use to describe Utopia, a show now into its fifth season. Maybe they mean the reboot of Mother and... Read More »
Vale Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe
Okay, this is going to be a tough one. How do we review an Australian sitcom that’s actually funny? Yeah, sure, Fisk was pretty good too, but c’mon. Fisk didn’t have an episode where a crippling addiction to playing a drumming arcade game really badly was resolved by having someone who’d shrunk themselves down to... Read More »
The best café coffee you’ll have all year
A new series from Aunty Donna is always something to look forward to and Aunty Donna’s Coffee Café does not... Read More »
Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe: No Reservations Required
It wasn’t all that long ago that series like Aunty Donna’s Coffee Cafe were part of the ABC’s regular comedy output. Today? Not so much. After decades of budget cuts and an increasingly tight focus on an audience that’s presumably excited for series like the upcoming Mother & Son reboot, something as relentlessly inventive and... Read More »