Category: News

From the archives: Jokers get smart

More gold from the archives! The ageless Jane Kennedy featured as a contestant on Sale of the Century with other funny people from the 1990s including Marg Downey and Andrew Denton, and here’s an article all about it from one of the Sunday TV listing guides.

Mike Moore Goes Mental As

Frontline’s Mike Moore makes a rare appearance for Mental Health Week.

Santo Cilauro’s Auto-biography

Behold! Another clipping! Back in 1993, Santo Cilauro posed with his beloved 1987 Alfa Romeo 33 Boxer for The Australian Magazine (here’s the PDF). “This car’s always full of junk,” he apologises, “because we film so many things ourselves on The Late Show. There’s an old street directory, for instance, that’s lost its middle pages. …

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A trip down memory lane: old Late Show clippings!

I have rediscovered a treasure-trove of clippings from The Late Show days, kept in a folder for 21 whole years – because that’s what 16 and 17 year olds did back then, as we didn’t have the ability to scan them and put them on the internet. (We also photocopied them at the school library, in black …

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Utopia Arriving

Working Dog’s latest TV venture is around the corner.

Frontline on YouTube

Moore, Vandenberg and Di Stasio .. and Elliot Rhodes – get their own official YouTube channel.

Rob on the new Working Dog production, The Speechmaker

If you haven’t already heard, Santo, Tom and Rob have written a new satire called The Speechmaker which is making its debut on 31 May at Arts Centre, Melbourne. Do pop along if you are there! It runs until 5 July. And we’d love to hear what you thought of it by posting a review …

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Happy 20th Anniversary Frontline

Monday May 9, 1994 – the cathode ray tube of your 34 cm colour TV turns on and you fiddle with your rabbit ears antenna to view Channel 2 at 8 o’clock at night. The reason? After The Late Show chalked and wrapped up its second season in late 1993, The team that was The D-Generation …

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Behind The Audience Part 2 – Santo Sam and Ed’s Total Football

We check out behind the scenes of this funny sports show and go one-on-one with Santo Cilauro, who reveals a few things from the past.

Behind The Audience Part 1 – Have You Been Paying Attention?

What’s better than seeing 22 minutes of screen time? Seeing nearly 2 hours of it in real time.