Category: TV

What to expect in 2023

Here’s what we know that’s happening in the ‘Champagne Comediverse’.

New Show: The Cheap Seats

A new show is coming from the ever-expanding CV of Working Dog.

HYBPA Returning May 3, 2021

Park your bott-bott on the couch as Australia’s favourite news quiz show hosted by Tom Gleisner returns for Season Nine on Monday May 3, 2021 on Channel 10. Along with regular panel players Ed Kavalee and Sam Pang, the Logie Award winning comedy show will entertain Australian audiences with news and punchlines galore with rotating guests and special quizmasters. …

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Returning in 2019: HYBPA? and Utopia

2019 can’t come fast enough!

Have You Been Paying Attention? goes worldwide

A big congratulations is in order for the team at Working Dog. The hit TV quiz series Have You Been Paying Attention? (HYBPA?) has been picked up by TEN Network U.S. owners CBS for worldwide rights to the series. Beginning in 2013, the fast-paced quiz show hosted by Tom Gleisner, alongside regular panelists Ed Kavalee and Sam Pang, started as a 30 …

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Airdate: Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventures Season 3

Australia’s favourite outback traveler Russell Coight is hitting the road, again! After a 14 year absence since his telemovie gave his ego a bit of a boost, the threat of the Coight has been haunting us for the last couple of years. But now, the team at Working Dog and Channel 10 have given ol’ Russ a date …

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‘Have You Been Paying Attention?’ wins while Tony Martin’s voiceover slays at the Logies 2018

It was Australian Television’s night of nights, and it was fantastic.

Have You Been Paying Attention? up for Logie nomination

Working Dog are up for one Logie gong for 2018.

Panasonic barcodes: saving your Saturdays

Were you out of the house on the night of Saturday, October 3, 1992? (Why weren’t you home watching The Late Show!) Those with the latest Panasonic VCRs needn’t have worried. In the late 80s and early 90s, programming your VCR could prove to be quite a hassle, Panasonic claimed. That’s why it really pushed …

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Flashback: TV Hits Readers’ Poll, March 1994

Ah, the mid-90s. When penpals were still a thing, everyone under 20 knew who Colour Me Badd was and Bruce Samazan had not yet entered the world of real estate. Oh, and there was one other Australian ’90s phenomenon: The Late Show. Indeed, after two successful seasons, the ABC sketch comedy show had become so …

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