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ABC COMEDY SHOWROOM brings together some of Australia's best comic talent for six new pilots, each the first episode of a brand new sitcom. ABC audiences will get to vote via ABC iview for the shows they want back as full series. The move is similar to Amazon's pilot vetting process and UK network Channel 4's Comedy Showcase.
A black comedy about what happens when your average suburban family comes up against the big world of commercial TV production.
Sketch comedy series
In a far North Queensland town surrounded by cane fields, a time capsule is unearthed at a local high school, plunging the town back into the past and the unsolved murder of one of its students.
While travelling to Victoria's Lakes District, Stephen Curry and Dave Lawson discuss Stephen's career and various acting techniques.
Adapted from the Tim Winton novel. From separate catastrophes two rural families flee to the city and find themselves sharing a great, breathing, shuddering joint called Cloudstreet, where they begin their lives again from scratch.
When Art and Vance Watkins re-open the doors of the neglected resort they grew up in, they're prepared for travellers, adventurers and escapees from life's dark places - not for their estranged father. When Gerry Watkins returns to stake his emotional claim on the Far Out East, he's finally forced to face the music. Vance is willing to forget. Art can only forgive the worst in his father when he begins to embrace the best - and it's then he discovers his own glorious ratbag within.
Having spent most of his professional life wandering the globe in search of paradise, travel writer and prodigal son, Art Watkins (Richard Roxburgh), rushes home, too late to be by his dying mother's bedside. Hoping to pay his last respects and escape the run down tropical resort - the scene of his misspent youth - a twist in the tale traps him out at the Far Out East. There he has to face his bitter brother, his childhood sweetheart, and a teenage son he hardly knows. Thanks to his mother's posthumous attempt to reunite her scattered family, Art discovers that his best chance of happiness is the 'paradise lost' he left behind.
FELONY sees a decorated police officer (Joel Edgerton) run a young cyclist off the road in his car after celebratory drinks with his colleagues for busting up a major gang. As he administers CPR, and on-duty police arrive, he changes his story about the accident which will alter all their lives.
Two bachelors end their unhappy collaboration on a short story about puberty, vermin and antisemetism.
In 1964 when five young newly-arrived immigrants met in a Sydney migrant hostel and formed a garage band, little did they know they'd take Australian rock'n'roll to the world. FRIDAY ON MY MIND is far more than a classic 'rags-to-riches' tale. It's a story of identity, of re-invention, of belonging. It's a story with powerful contemporary relevance which sees five disparate immigrant boys band together with an equally talented young visionary from the top end of town to create Australia's first truly international rock group.
THE FUTURE IS EXPENSIVE is a hilarious ode to the bizarreness of picket-fence suburbia that we're conditioned to accept as synonymous with being an 'adult'.
An ode to a beer-drinking nation.
A silent film about an innocent man having trouble making breakfast.
The story of Australia's first and greatest home grown super star, whose show 'In Melbourne Tonight' was made in Channel Nine's GTV studios in the 1950s and '60s.
Everyone deserves a second chance. Even a real estate agent. Frank Mollard's life takes an unexpected turn for the better when he receives a phone call from his dead mother.
The community reels after a mass murder on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the screaming in his head while all around him try to deal with the afterburn of the terrible crime.
Inspired by the award-winning stand-up comedy of Josh Thomas, PLEASE LIKE ME is a series about growing up quickly, and about realising that your parents are not heroes, but dopes with no idea whats going on — just like you.
Life is just kicking off for Josh. He's living in a share house. He's doing adult things like drinking wine and eating asparagus. And he's heading rapidly - if reluctantly - towards his twenty-first birthday. But the events of one day throw his world spinning off its axis, and Josh is forced to move back into the family home to keep an eye on his divorced mother. Inspired by the award-winning stand-up comedy of Josh Thomas, PLEASE LIKE ME is a series about growing up quickly, and about realising that your parents are not heroes, but dopes with no idea what's going on - just like you.
In season two, Josh tries to get through the day without upsetting anyone. There's a new dog, a new rabbit and a new baby. There's no big twist. It isn't Lost.
Inspired by the stand-up comedy and real life experiences of its writer/creator Josh Thomas, PLEASE LIKE ME explores the world of a young man who's in no hurry to grow up. But as he navigates a bipolar mother, a mid-life crisis father, a newish baby sister, an anxiety-ridden boyfriend, a peripatetic ex-girlfriend and an unmotivated best friend, he may just be the sanest person he knows. In season three, new characters arrive, complications ensue, and a cast of extraordinary performers compete for screen time with John the cavoodle. Here we go again.
PLEASE LIKE ME returns for a fourth season, as Josh and his friends hurtle towards the end of their twenties and try to convince themselves that everything is gonna be OK.
RAKE is about love, madness, addiction, and the law--in short, it is about modern life.
One year on from taking up residency in Canberra as a Senator in Federal Parliament, Cleaver's chaos has not abated. Having single-handedly caused the downfall of the Governor General, there are old foes and new. David Potter has made the transition to Senator for the Greens (without the extra 'e') and Cleaver has a new nemesis in the formidable and right wing Senator Penny Evans. Nicole Vargas is now Cleaver's Chief of Staff, and Jack lurks in the Parliamentary shadows, ready to make or break careers. On the eve of the arrival of US Defence Secretary Linus Potemkin for an Asian Security Summit, there is a purported terrorist gas attack on New Parliament House causing the seat of government to move down the hill to its old home and now Museum of Australian Democracy. Old friends, it doesn't take much persuasion for Potemkin and Cleaver to fall into their old ways and party like it is 1999 ... only for Cleaver to discover that Linus is the keeper of the nuclear codes and that he may not be in a healthy mental state due to the pressures of office and a secret private life.
A standup comic takes to stalking his ex-girlfriend in a misguided search for material.
About a group of 20-somethings living in the urban environs of Melbourne's St Kilda. They have yet to make it, but know it's just a matter of time. A one-hour drama series about love, money, friendship, success and anything else that's worth going after.
A one hour drama series about love, money, friendship, success and anything else that's worth going after.
A psychological mystery told from the shifting perspective of seven characters following a convoluted chain of events triggered when a child is taken and relationships are thrown into crisis.
A true ensemble sketch show, skitHOUSE is driven by a team of writer/performers, most of whom are well-known faces on the Australian live comedy scene.
A true ensemble sketch show, skitHOUSE is driven by a team of writer/performers, most of whom are well known faces on the Australian live comedy scene.
At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own. This event and what follows, ricochets through a group of family and friends to shocking effect. THE SLAP is told from the points of view of eight people who were present at the barbecue. The television adaptation of THE SLAP will be a powerful, haunting tale about love, sex and marriage, parenting and children, and all the passions and conflicting beliefs - that family can arouse.
Eve Agius is a highly skilled surgeon in a mostly male world. Real medical cases filled with twists, turns and surprises test the limits of her skill and knowledge.
A mother. A son. A phone call.
TANGLE is about two generations of two families — sometimes connecting, sometimes colliding, sometimes at cross-purposes — as they navigate their way around the maze of love, sex, money and politics.
TANGLE is a show about love and marriage, sex, politics and religion and all the stuff adults can never tell their teenage kids about - especially when their own moral compasses are spinning out of control.
Two waitpersons, Elaine and Lisa, exact revenge on their clientele of beatnik wannabes and ex-boyfriends with a stolen mobile phone, a Visa card and a 0055 number.
A down-and-out musician has to drive a piano from one side of Australia to the other in order to honour his mother's dying wish. That's the easy bit. His real problems begin when he's joined by a fugitive teenage girl who soon proves to be even heavier baggage than the piano. What are the odds they'll all make it out of the desert intact?
WE CAN BE HEROES follows the trials and tribulations of five unique Australians who have made the shortlist to represent their state for the prestigious title of Australian of the Year. The only thing our nominees have in common is that they are all played by comedian Chris Lilley.
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