Download podcast interview link: A Talk with Adam Zwar       Writer/actor/comedian Adam Zwar is currently hard at work editing The Agony of Life – it’s a new eight part series for the ABC, and a follow-up to last year’s Agony Uncles and Agony Aunts. While the first two series looked at love, this [...]

For anyone who’s ever trudged back home despite your greatest reservations to spend quality time with a dysfunctional family at Christmas, this ABC comedy goes out to you… A Moody Christmas, the new comedy brain child of Phil Lloyd and Trent O’Donnell, tells the story of the Moody family – each installment dealing with the [...]

Last night saw the premiere of The Unbelievable Truth on Channel Seven, an attempt to strike it rich in the panel show goldmine. It’s come to the screen under the guidance of three of The Chasers, sufficiently neutered for commercial television. Craig Reucassel makes a likeable, efficient host, with Julian Morrow and Andrew Hansen as guests on [...]

Production kicks off today on a four episode sketch comedy show from popular comedian Sam Simmons. Titled Problems, the show will run on the theme of solving a problem over the course of an episode. It’s slated to air later in 2012.

John Richards talks to Matt Smith about his upcoming show Outland, a new comedy show coming to the ABC about a gay science fiction club. In this podcast, John enlightens us with the show’s six year development, and explains who has the bigger closet to come out of. Podcast: A Talk with John Richards. Outland [...]

Funny, educational, and always what it says on the packaging – quite interesting – QI Live brings the BBC comedy show to the stages of Australia, hosted by the international treasure Stephen Fry. For those familiar with the televised counterpart there is little variation. Now infused with a cast of Australian panelists and partnered as [...]

It’s pretty obvious that the media is always in danger of disappearing up it’s own arse in self analysis. Well now, the hamster’s beaten them to it. Last night brought the first episode of The Hamster Wheel to ABC1, a new show from The Chasers, who have narrowed their field of vision from a war [...]

Misunderstood Triple M radio show Get This was cancelled in 2007, and since then, the fans have remained strong (and it needs to be said, just a little bit scary). I’m sure there have been nights where Tony Martin has woken up in a fevered sweat, having been chased through a nightmare by people wanting [...]

Much hyped, lumbering, and tired, Two and a Half Men is back on our screens, Sheen-free and with extra-added Kutcher. Let’s leave aside that Australian audiences are pretty much fatigued from this show, what with back-to-back episodes of it screened by Channel 9 on a regular basis. The interesting question is whether the show can [...]

Ever wondered what goes on behind-the-scenes at the lodge, the home of Prime Minister Julia Gillard, and her First Guy Tim Mathieson? Yeah… me neither. At any rate, wonder no more, as four episodes of At Home With Julia are hitting your screens on ABC1.

Well, that was grim viewing. I’m going to come out right away and say that I’m not entirely sure what Good News World is trying to be. Aiming for a hybrid of a sketch comedy show and Daily Show with Jon Stewart, it resembles nothing of the previous incarnation of Good News Week, and instead [...]

Twentysomething is a six part dramedy which tells the story of Jess (Jess Harris) and Josh (Josh Schmidt), best friends who are trying to pull their life back together after hitting rock bottom. Rather than grow up and settle down, they’ve partied hard and lived life for the moment since they finished high school. It [...]

Good News World is coming soon to channel 10, premiering on Monday 5th September at 9:30pm. It features Paul McDermott, Mikey Robins, Claire Hooper, Cal Wilson, Akmal, Tom Gleeson, Sammy J, and a puppet. Details are scarce, but on Facebook it claims to be ‘somewhere between The Daily Show, Saturday Night Live, and a hostage [...]

Having recently scored at the top of the ‘must watch’ charts of Australian talent, it leaves comedians Hamish and Andy in an interesting position of power. Channel Nine reportedly paid $17 million to poach the duo from Channel Ten, and judging by the results of their new show, gave them a fair bit of creative [...]

Listen to Judith Lucy talk to Matt Smith in a Crikey podcast. Australian comedian Judith Lucy has never been one to hold back. Frank and upfront, she has a style of humour that tends to polarise her audience – you either love her for her brutal honesty, or she sets your teeth on edge. Many [...]

British treasure Stephen Fry is bringing his popular television quiz show to Australia, in a limited run of ‘live on stage!’ specials. QI is a quiz show in which Stephen Fry challenges his panelists in with questions, the answer of which are inevitably ‘quite interesting’. Running for the best part of a decade on the [...]

Australian comedian Judith Lucy talks to Matt Smith about her upcoming show Judith Lucy’s Spiritual Journey, a show in which she examines the big questions in life, in an effort to find a bit of meaning. In this podcast, Judith enlightens us as to why she’s made the show (money), why she chose the topic [...]

Channel Ten’s newest offering from the ‘comedy only works as a panel show’ department made its debut this week in the form of Can of Worms, a show promising to deliver a laugh that makes you think, and stir up a bit of commentary and controversy in the process. Hosted by Ian ‘Dicko’ Dickson and [...]

Lawrence Leung’s Unbelievable sees the Australian comedian and self-admitted sceptic investigate the impossible. By seeking out experts and staging experiments that aren’t entirely scientific, Lawrence aims to challenge our misconceptions and beliefs. ‘In some ways it was just a lot of fun, but in other ways I was making the sort of science show I [...]

Listen to Leigh Hart talk to Matt Smith in a Crikey podcast. You can be forgiven if, for a moment, you mistake Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet as a serious documentary. It’s shot in the right style, it has the growling deep narration from a man who’s survived throat cancer, and it contains the required amount [...]

Kiwi presenter Leigh Hart calls in for a podcast interview to talk about his upcoming television show, which looks into the mysteries of the world and investigates the supernatural. Podcast: Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Podcast Leigh Hart’s Mysterious Planet starts June 14, 9pm on ABC2.

“It might be funny when you’re a kid, not when you’re seventeen!” I’m paraphrasing a bit, but Adelaide angry boy Daniel pretty much summarised the entire show while complaining about his brother Nathan pissing on him from the roof. Five episodes into Chris Lilley’s twelve part odyssey Angry Boys and you can maybe see the [...]

If you had a burning desire to see Channel 9’s latest effort to justify the ‘home of comedy’ title they were pimping at the start of the year, tonight’s your last chance. After four weeks the sports/comedy amalgamation Between the Lines is coming to an end. Between the Lines was a strange beast to unleash [...]

A new episode of The Simpsons just shook things up a bit. In an effort to attract attention to the season finale and drum up some more viewers when the next season roles around, they’re letting the audience vote on the success or failure of a fledgling cartoon relationship. Season 22 of The Simpsons has [...]

Part comedy show, part travel documentary, An Idiot Abroad works by taking British comedian Karl Pilkington (friend of influential comedian Ricky Gervais) and putting him in an unfamiliar situation in exotic locations, under the guise of getting him out there to experience somewhere else other than England. The comedy comes from the way Pilkington reacts [...]

BBC comedy show Come Fly With Me made its Australian debut last night on Channel 9. Well, I say ‘Australia’, but as reported it was strangely dropped from New South Wales regional affiliates WIN and NBN. As someone who grew up in New South Wales on a steady diet of NBN, I think I speak [...]

Chris Lilley bounced back into Australian lounge rooms this week in his highly anticipated TV show Angry Boys, a follow-up to the popularly and critically adored one-man-many-characters LOL fests We Can be Heroes and Summer Heights High. Lilley’s appearances on the teev come pre-packaged with a sense of spectacle, a sort of limited-time-only appeal. For [...]

Starting this week (April 5), ABC2 will be screening the Warehouse Comedy Festival, a selection of some of Australia’s most respected comedians doing some of their stand-up material from last year. It’s a great way to get a taste of these comedians, as they’re all doing new shows at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival this [...]