Category: Australian
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Rowan’s Will Reading
This seems to be from the Australian iteration of Parkinson, which aired from 1979 to 1983, but I might be wrong.
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The Australian Dad’s Army Reboot
There’s so much going on in this sketch. Have a look first, then we’ll talk about it. Rarely does a sketch touch on so much, and reveal new information (to me at least). It talks about declining TV budgets, the fragmentation of audience, the loss of the younger viewer, the reliance on overseas productions, tropes,…
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Julia Morris On Room 101 (Australia)
I love it when several of my interests collide. Here’s one of my most favourite comedians, Julia Morris, on the Australian version of Room 101. And it’s the best version of the format, one on one with the host. Room 101 ran on SBS in 2015 for ten episodes over the summer. As you can…
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Promoting Me, Promoting You with Alan Partridge
Two overseas promos for the Alan Partridge collection for you to peruse today. Does anyone know where the to camera promo from this one is from? It’s clearly made for BBC Two to show, and I don’t recall seeing this one anywhere. Correct me if I’m wrong. And this one for ABC in Australia.
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Whose Line Is It Anywhere?
In 1988 Dan Patterson and Mark Leveson created the improv game show Whose Line Is It Anyway? It was a Hat Trick production for Channel Four, and aired for eleven years. But it originally began life as a Radio 4 show. Towards the end of its UK run, the show crossed the Atlantic, taking with…
