Thursday, 10 July 2008

Australian Comedy coming to the UK

Recent advances in technology have allowed for the distribution of comedy sitcoms reaching us Brits for places as far as Australia and New Zealand. Gone are the days where our choice was restricted to 'Everybody Loves Ramond, and that other show with 2 Gaymen and the squealing woman.

Within the last year or so we have been blessed with the highly original Flight of the Conchords, and more recently from Australia: Summer Heights High which has been showing on BBC3. However, it seems this has been a long time coming. Chris Lilley, who wrote and directed SHH first appeared in Big Bite (2003), and although the scenes are a little scrappy and the characters a bit underdeveloped, it's good to see where it all started:

1 comment:

md said...

got nothing on TPB