Flipside

This was a very good sketch show with outstanding acting and production values. Not quite in the same league as "Alas Smith and Jones", but certainly in the same league as "The Late Show". Many laugh-out-loud funny sketches. What really stood out was the originality of the sketches' premises, like the scowling guy who turns up with a broken toaster on the doorstep of the man who had given it as a wedding present 12 years earlier, demanding that it be fixed. I wonder if this program fell foul of internal ABC politics, as it was buried late on Saturday night in a varying time slot with minimal publicity, and I haven't seen any repeats. If this program was instead a sympathetic but unfunny sitcom about a family of Muslim asylum swindlers, you can bet the ABC would have kept it running for five seasons even if (or rather, ESPECIALLY if) there were no viewers.

This series is yet another great Australian sketch comedy show but like other Australian shows it was very short lived, it says on imdb.com only 7 episodes were made which sucks. At the moment episode 1 has been shown which was on late last Saturday night. I'm looking forward to watching episode 2 and I hope that ABC keeps the show on for the remaining 5 episodes. The show is great for a laugh and features a great cast of Andrew Curry(Neighbours), Bernard Curry(Neighbours, The Dish), Stephen Curry(The Castle, Changi, Eric) and many others. So if you've got nothing else to do on a Saturday Night or you just want to have a quiet one at home, tune into Channel 2-ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation.) Last Saturday it was on at 10:30pm and this Saturday it's on at 11:30pm so check the guide each Saturday because the time may very. It may not be as good as Full Frontal but it is still worth viewing.

Does anyone at all know if this series is available on DVD? I've heard some of the sketches are available for downloading to a mobile phone but I can't find where. The famous Terry Techno stuff is widely available though. This was honestly one of the first really good sketch series on the telly that appeared before all the drivel that's on today and yet it constantly gets ignored in all the press and summaries about Australian television comedy. It was absolutely left of centre, very dry, deadpan humour featuring some very talented unknowns at the time who have pretty much all gone on to do other things. The ABC sadly only made a few episodes, allegedly due to management changes but it repeats every now and then so keep an eye out for it.