Matt F

20+ years media background experience. Producer. Lover of comedy. Loves Australian nostalgia for the greater good.

Most commented posts

  1. Remembering: The ACTUAL Show itself: Tom and Santo Speak — 7 comments
  2. The Scumbus Is Coming — 7 comments
  3. Santo, Sam & Ed are goooooo!!! — 6 comments
  4. Remembering: The Pissweak Kids (with bonus interview) — 6 comments
  5. Happy 20th Anniversary, The Late Show! — 5 comments

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Rob Sitch on In Gordon Street Tonight

Former Spicks And Specks host Adam Hills is back with the second season of In Gordon Street Tonight. The first episode was launched tonight (Wednesday 8th February) with the first guests Rob Sitch and Josh Lawson, promoting Any Questions For Ben. Sitch briefly spoke about how they had to alter a park to get the autumn …

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Sports Fever! S01E02 Ratings

Source: au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7/sports-fever With a slightly earlier start of 10:40pm (technically it was 10:43pm as per my watch), the perfectly timed second episode of Sports Fever! with “Santo, Sam and Ted” raked in 200,000 late night viewers. Sure, it’s a little down from their premiere first episode last week, but… well… I have nothing. It was …

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Remembering: Paradise Beach

Part two of our irregular “Remembering” theme to mark 20 years since The Late Show, does anyone remember the epicly popular (and that term is used loosely) Channel 9 soap drama Paradise Beach from 1993? Maybe this is a refresher… dare you to watch as much of it as you can. ..or, you can watch the 2 …

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Any Questions For Ben? Getting Social

Have you hopped onto the Twitter and Facebook bandwagon yet? If not – why are you on the internet? Social media is a strong, powerful tool which allows the general public to interact with each other and express thoughts, opinions and discussions about anything at all. You can even interact with your favourite actor, musician …

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Sports Fever! Article: Q&A Santo Cilauro

We just can’t get enough of Working Dog lately. 2012 seems to be their year of shows and films. Other than Any Questions For Ben (out Feb 9) and Sports Fever! hitting our screens, one more ace Working Dog have up their sleeves is Pictures Of You – a show that loosely touches on This Is Your Life but …

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Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever! (SSESF) S01E01 Ratings

source: au.tv.yahoo.com/plus7 Well, after a few false starts with the scheduled time (originally 10;30pm, then moved to 10:45pm, only to have Jason Segel and Neil Patrick Harris still teasing the kids about how their dad met their mother), Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports Fever! finally got the ball rolling a few minutes before 11pm. The …

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AQFB Article: Location, Location, Location

Source: smh.com.au The articles and reviews are being laid on thick with Any Questions For Ben? due out in cinemas February 9. Sydney Morning Herald‘s journalist John Mangan talks to Working Dog frontman and AQFB Director Rob Sitch about their new feature, and how precise the locations needed to be to film their newest work …

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Judith Lucy – Nothing Fancy Interview

Judith Lucy, the “Fifth Beatle” to The Late Show in 1993, is on tour with her latest show Nothing Fancy. In a recent interview with the Sydney Morning Herald, Lucy talks about her previous stage shows, her 2011 TV show on the ABC Spiritual Journey and her 2008 book The Judith Lucy Alphabet. Here’s a tiny excerpt …

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Happy Australia Day!

Girt, soil, toil… Ladies and Gentlemen – take a bow!

Santo, Sam & Ed are goooooo!!!

UPDATE: SPORTS FEVER WILL BEGIN AT 10:45PM MONDAY JANUARY 30, instead of the previous 10:30PM time. Get your Diego Maradonuts out and park your bum on the lounge for a late night live show tradition you haven’t done for 20 years! Sadly, I’m not talking about The Late Show… It’s Santo, Sam & Ed’s Sports …

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