Nov 23 2011

And the ARIA goes to Martin/Molloy!

This year the Australian Recording Industry Awards (ARIAs) are celebrating 25 years of the celebratory achievements that the Australian Music Industry as given to Australia. Beginning in 1987, the awards were handed out similar to the Logies, but to musicians, producers, writers for their hard work and sales of record albums and achievements.

Between 1995 – 1998, Tony Martin and Mick Molloy released 3 comedy albums, based on their radio show Martin/Molloy that was heard on the Austereo Network. Each album had won awards.

In celebration of the 25th anniversary of the ARIAs, full awards shows are being released on youtube gradually. This video is from the 1997 awards, with Tony and Mick taking out the comedy gong for Poop Chute. 90s Indie band The Presidents Of The United States of America presented them with their fantastic trophy.

Hopefully they’ll release more 90s footage, especially the entire version of the 1995 ARIAs with Tony and Mick mucking around with 90s band TISM.

Nov 22 2011

Any Questions For Ben? details

Lukewarm off the internet press is Working Dog‘s preview for their latest film, Any Questions For Ben?. Yes, question mark included.

Starring Josh Lawson, Rachael Taylor, Felicity Ward, Jodi Gordon and Ed “KD Lang” Kavalee, based around we assume to be 25 year olds (the working title was named ‘25‘) the film was completed last year over a period of seven weeks – according to Tom Gleisner‘s interview with Watch Out For.

While the details are still a little hush-hush, a  teaser trailer was released by Roadshow Films on Facebook.

Any Questions For Ben? release date is February 9, 2012.

Nov 13 2011

The Late Show gets the Bergamui Bronze

A nostaglic past to 1992 (like everything on this site) and we dive into an old issue of TV Hits magazine.

As voted by readers, The Late Show sits in at Bergamui Number 3, beating the little fat kid from Hey Dad..! and a few others. The listing is as follows (don’t forget, it was 1992!)

1 – Fast Forward
2 – Married… With Children
3 – The Late Show
4 – Step By Step
5 – Full House
6 – Hey Dad..!
7 – Roseanne
8 – Perfect Strangers
9 – Saved By The Bell
10 – The Cosby Show

Good to see back in the day we had a decent turnout for Australian comedy shows, where some of the original D-Generation cast appeared in Fast Forward.

Nov 09 2011

Joy Of Sets: Out with a Bang!

Source: facebook.com/TheJoyOfSets

The final episode of The Joy Of Sets has now been and gone. A total number of 225,000 ‘weekend listeners’ tuned in for the slaughtering of Warwick Capper‘s meat and two veg being shot off by a machine gun, while the show finally got the ending credit roll at the end with an amusing montage of Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee remembering the good and bad times of the show.

Will JoS be back next year? Not sure. At least Tony and Ed gave it a shot, and we thank Channel 9 for giving the show a chance, instead of canning it after three episodes. Maybe it’ll return on ABC 5 ?

Until then: Watch it on FixPlay. Beware of some heavy pixelation. Feel free to chat about your opinions on the show too in the forum.

Nov 07 2011

Joy Of Sets: The Final Curtain or Begging for a Second Series?

In the eighth and final installment of The Joy Of Sets, Tony and Ed look at. The end.

That’s it.

Oh, the show is about looking at the end of shows finishing. Whether it’s speculation of a second series renewal but no word from the ‘upper management’, to wrapping up a long winded series, to go out with a bang or a whimper. Tony and Ed will try and cover the cliche, major and minor wrap-ups or cliffhangers which never got the completion it needed.

Tuesday 8 November, 10:30pm on Channel Nine.

It’s also the final episode for The Joy Of Sets, with no official word of renewal, so how about we treat this like the end of The Late Show, and go out with a musical number?

Nov 04 2011

People Want Ducks!

Four years on since the axing of Tony Martin‘s highly successful radio show Get This, and people still want ducks.

Photo proof:

That is all.

Nov 02 2011

Joy of Sets: Episode 7 Ratings

What else could go wrong with The Joy Of Sets on Tuesday night? 222,000 – down 20,000 from last week, but still higher than Episode 5 . One right up the bracket, anyone?

Anyway, it was extremely pleasant and rib-tickling to see the legendary Pete Smith make an appearance, especially announcing old Martin/Molloy and Get This references. We’ve always wanted to hear “Up next, THE COMMISH!” again. Even Frank Butcher from Eastenders made an appearance.

If you missed the show last night, hit the official Fixplay site to get the view hits up before Yasmin’s Getting Married knocks at their door. Come Logies time, they might only be able to apply for the Bermagui Bronze Logie.

Oct 31 2011

Joy of Sets: What Could Possibly Go Wrong?

When you’ve finished watching Dufflecoat Supreme recover after winning the Melbourne Cup with a case of gout, stay awake to watch episode 7 of The Joy Of Sets on Channel 9  at 10:30pm tonight. In this themed episode “What Could Possibly Go Wrong?” Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee break down the ever-growing list of television bombs and failures.

(You never know, they could list Funky Squad, The Mick Molloy Show and The Nation!)

Some areas that will be covered are:

  • Why did they go wrong?
  • Was it bad acting?
  • Was it a bad set up?
  • Did it have an unrealistic timeslot?
  • Did it star Warwick Capper?
  • Was it lacking sizzle, traction and cut-through?

Get on it, before they add their own name to the list.. 🙁

Oct 27 2011

Mick Molloy Embassador for ‘The Elevenses’

Source: theelevenses.org

In a combat to fight third world hunger, Mick Molloy has been enlisted to be the embassador for The Elevenses.

The Elevenses is not a movement or campaign, but a project to raise funds to help those facing malnutrition and disease in the Horn of Africa.

The rules are simple – donate $11AU by 11th November 2011 (11/11/11) and the Australian Government will match it dollar for dollar. So if you donate $11, the Government will donate $11, totalling = $22. The target is to get $1,111,111 by 11th November.

[tube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqmgQ7kGQ78[/tube]

To find out more information, visit Mick at the official site: The Elevenses – http://www.theelevenses.org/

Oct 26 2011

Joy of Sets: Episode 6 ratings

Source: facebook.com/TheJoyOfSets

The ratings are in for this week’s sixth episode of The Joy Of Sets – “Who Killed Warwick Capper?”. Since being bumped out of 9pm to the ‘special time’ 10:30pm timeslot last week, ratings have slightly improved from 191,000 (episode 5 with new time) to 242,000 (episode 6).

While not Yasmin’s Getting Married type of ratings, it shows that the Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee fans are still staying up to watch Tony’s brain work overtime to try and simplify the funand interesting stories and moments in television.

If you missed out on the breakdown of characters being entertainingly killed off, or even the best ways on how to kill off Alan Dale in any tv show, check out the episode on FixPlay when available. It’ll count toward the ratings this show needs to keep afloat.

Also, Warwick Capper got kicked off Celebrity Apprentice, so if you want more Capper jokes, The Joy Of Sets is your only option.