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Azio - The Bogan Spy Agency, Crazy Bastards, I'm With Stupid, Fancy Boy, Food for Peasants and Pet Quarantine..judging by some of the titles and synopses , the ABC TV/Screen Australia Fresh Blood initiative will spawn some weird and wonderful comedies.

A mix of puppetry, animation, parodies, improv and absurdist humour, the 25 projects selected will each receive $10,000 to produce three short-form sketches.

The shows will air on ABC.s iView platform this year. ABC controller Brendan Dahill tells If that some may later screen on ABC2 after they premiere on the catch-up service.

The initiative is designed to unearth the next generation of comedy performers and producers. There were 492 applications, many of such a high calibre that the ABC and Screen Australia decided to commission 25, one more than originally planned.

Here are the recipients: Aunty Donna Mark Samual Bonanno, Adrian Dean, Broden Kelly, Zachary Ruane

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Timothy Spall was rescued by a lifeboat crew after he got lost filming a television show on his barge. The actor - best known to global audiences for playing Peter Pettigrew in the Harry Potter movies and Winston Churchill in The King's Speech - radioed the coastguard as he tried to make his way back to Chatham Marina in Kent. An Rnli lifeboat was launched from Sheerness at about 9.30pm on Wednesday to come to Spall's aid. Crew member Andy Matthews told BBC News: "He was right to call us. Things could have got much worse. Mr Spall was very grateful for (more)...