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An emotionally lost man seeks validation through his small business kingdom, but finds unexpected solace from his odd squad of employees.
Ezra, Maudie, Ava and Kyle are The InBESTigators. Operating out of the granny flat in Ezra's backyard, these disparate kids from Grade Five are led by Maudie, a freakishly gifted observer of human behaviour. As Maudie manages to solve one thorny school or neighbourhood mystery after another, she and Ezra, Ava and Kyle discover what motivates a crime. While every episode offers a compelling puzzle to crack, at its core the show is a character comedy with heart.
Frances O'Brien, devout Catholic and panic disorder sufferer, runs a very tight ship at the Middleton Interactive Learning Centre, a modern outer suburban library. Despite the chronic vandalism, the dysfunctional staff and her own particular challenges with the ever-growing Muslim community, Frances wears her Head Librarian's badge with relish. No more so than during the heady period leading up to Book Week - precisely the moment her life suddenly takes a turn for the worst. Frances' ex-best friend from childhood turns up wanting a job in her library.
Frances O'Brien, Head Librarian, is having a hellish time. For once, it's not of her making. Frances' mother, suffering from dementia and a horrible personality, lands on the O'Brien doorstep. Adding to her woes, morale at the Middleton Interactive Learning Centre is at an all time low. To stay open, the library must run as a business and return a profit. As the staff has a hard enough time enforcing the return of a book, this latest initiative could spell the end of the library.
LITTLE LUNCH is a 26 x 15 mockumentary comedy series that takes place during fifteen highly significant minutes of a child's life; that of snack time in the primary school playground. Adapted from the popular books written by Danny Katz and illustrated by Mitch Vane, LITTLE LUNCH has become a vibrant and truthful character comedy for the small screen. Each self-contained episode revolves around, and is told by, six diverse and distinctly identifiable children. LITTLE LUNCH tackles the big issues in the playground and uses observational humour to explore themes which govern children: fear, anxiety, friendship, loyalty, trust and abandonment. Although original in concept, the show is effortlessly universal. LITTLE LUNCH is an eminently relatable comedy with heart.
When Atticus' mother gets a job in Singapore, he discovers that the Halloween concert day will be his last day of school. The make-believe terror of Halloween is replaced by Atticus being genuinely petrified of leaving and starting a new life. The Little Lunch Halloween Special cracks open the heart of the spooky celebration to explore, beyond a scary costume, what it is that children really fear. The countdown to Christmas and summer holidays is exciting every year but no more so than now, when the Mrs Gonsha's class is graduating from grade 6. The children are engulfed in the thrill of end-of-year activity, until they uncover the explosive news that Rory is unable to graduate. The Little Lunch Christmas Special encapsulates the contemporary meaning of Christmas - the overriding need to have love and generosity. The half hour format of The Little Lunch Specials enables a funny, warm and real investigation into the emotions which govern children: fear, anxiety, friendship, loyalty, trust and abandonment, in two deeply significant events.
A little love story with strings attached. An unlikely couple falls in love when forced to take online ukulele lessons during COVID-19.
A woman's normal life in the suburbs falls apart when her movie-star niece comes to stay.
SUMMER LOVE is an anthology series in which eight very different sets of people rent the same holiday house. Each of the stories is connected: through the house, through its owners, Becky and Dan, and through the unifying theme of love. Summer Love harnesses the collision between the dreamy enchantment of the beach and the clumsy reality of humans on holiday. It captures the anonymity, the possibility, the escape that we all feel - alongside the sand in the sheets. The house, hanging over the ocean, intoxicating from every angle, is the portal for love - to be discovered, or recovered, or let go.
When Bess Denyar, a doctor with a posh mother, an architect husband and twin 13-year-olds at a private school, finds out that she is adopted, she is stunned, but even more so when she meets her birth parents - Wayne and Julie Wheeler. If that's not enough to digest, Bess also discovers that she has siblings - Amber, Kayne and Brianna. The Wheelers head up a drag racing team in the outer suburbs, and are thrilled to discover the daughter they thought they had lost.
Bess Denyar, an upper middle class doctor, having discovered she is adopted and comes from a family of drag racers in the outer suburbs, continues to deal with the adoption bombshell and its consequences. Caught in the middle of two tribes, it's Bess who must keep juggling the fallout - on her adoptive and overbearing mother Margaret, her loving but slightly spoiled husband Danny, her twins Oscar and Edwina, not to mention the Wheelers, her newly found and delightfully bogan family.
UPPER MIDDLE BOGAN SERIES 3 sees Bess Denyar continuing to strive for a happy union between her adoptive upper middle family and her biological bogan family. Two years have passed since Bess, an upper middle class doctor, discovered she was adopted and found her drag racing, biological parents living in the outer suburbs. With her two families, the Brights and the Wheelers, each now facing a brand new set of challenges - moving houses, illness and injuries, relationships ending and beginning - Bess struggles to manage her families living at opposing ends of the freeway, with varying levels of success. Often caught in the middle of two tribes, Bess' dreams of life as one big happy clan seem almost impossible… but only almost.
Don Angel is a small businessman the backbone of this country's great economy. But if that's true, it's no thanks to him. After numerous unsuccessful business ventures, now Don's one-man publishing empire is hurtling towards liquidation. His debts are mounting, his stomach's killing him, his wife just left him and he's just hired Ray Leonard as his journalist, taking his first tentative steps back into the workplace after a six-year battle with depression. It's a marriage made in heaven - at least until the Tax Office gets there.
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