Murray Head [Lab] (muzza@omen.net.au)
14 May 1998 19:06:00 0800
<<<Warning: this is rather long, and is basically all about what was
served as afternoon entertainment in Australia when I was in highschool
(5-10 years ago)... it's a bit rambly, and may cause shakes in easily
bored individuals... but damn it, I've written it all now, so I'm going
to send it... you were warned :) >>>
rps wrote:
> Got to disagree. Australia makes fantastic children's television.
> Thinking Round the Twist, Henderson Kids, Our House (going back many
years)
> B's in PJ's. Sure if you are talking about teenage drama series than yes
> we don't do that or sitcom's well.
Exactly. Just look at the list of great Aussie sitcoms:
Mother and Son
Lano and Woodley (with a big Aussie thanks to the Brits for lending us
the great Bob Spiers, but I have no doubt that his presence was as much
because of it's quality as the cause of it)
Hmm... what else is there? FRONTLINE! - I hear many shout (shown
overseas under various permutations of that name, including, I believe,
"Beyond the Frontline" and "Behind the Frontline")- well, I'm happy to
include it as a great show, but I don't really think of it (and nor do
it's creators/writers, might I ad) as a sit-com. As for the "young
adult" (as the bookstores have taken to calling it) section of the
Australian TV world... well.. there's:
Hmmm.. Well, the mention of RawFM was valid, and even the first year of
"Home and Away" (dare I mention it's name) 11-odd years ago pretty much
fitted into the category (in it's actuality if not it's advertised
motives) of a good teenage drama. Reluctantly but without doubt I must
say that my teenage years' afternoons (the traditional place of
programming of PG and Degrassi's ilk) were spent watching British (PG,
Doctor Who, whatever that annoying (in that it took over from PG, rather
than in it's actual quality) bike-courier show was) and Canadian
(Degrassi Jnr- and Degrassi- High (never got into "Kids of Degrassi)) in
the company of, firstly, Mr James Valentine, and later Michael Tunn on
the ABC... an Australian entrant into the arena of quality young adult
comedy/drama would have been welcome, but if they existed they certainly
have not stuck in my memory to this point in the same way the others did
(especially, of course, the one which I should have been writing about
instead of posting this slightly-off-topic drivel... ah, I'm gettin'
old...)
Thanks for reading through my long and winding tale... I feel like Abe
Simpson... so many stories that lead nowhere to tell, and so few people
willing to listen to them :)
Murray
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