The Office is being remade again for the thirteenth time. This adaption will be an Australian version featuring a female lead, Felicity Ward, for the first time. Ward will be acting as Hannah Howard, the manager of one of the branches of Flinley Craddick, a packaging company. This adaption differs from the original U.K. version as it will follow what happens to Howard and the other branch workers when they must work from home due to their branch being shut down.
Prime Video Australia will be creating the show and it will be an eight-part series. Filming will start in June and is set to launch in 2024. Viewers can access the show through Prime membership, as it will be an Amazon Original show.
Other actors will star in the series including Steen Raskopoulos, Firass Dirani, Susan Ling Young, Josh Thomson, Shari Sebbens, Edith Poor, Lucy Schmit, Jonny Brugh, Raj Labade and Pallavi Sharda.
Prime Video Australia will be creating the show and it will be an eight-part series. Filming will start in June and is set to launch in 2024. Viewers can access the show through Prime membership, as it will be an Amazon Original show.
Other actors will star in the series including Steen Raskopoulos, Firass Dirani, Susan Ling Young, Josh Thomson, Shari Sebbens, Edith Poor, Lucy Schmit, Jonny Brugh, Raj Labade and Pallavi Sharda.
- 6/4/2023
- by Nina Hauswirth
- Uinterview
Prime Video Australia is remaking The Office as a female-led comedy starring stand-up Felicity Ward in the role Ricky Gervais first made famous.
Gervais’ David Brent will become Hannah Howard in the series, with Ward putting her own spin on bad team management at packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she gets news from Head Office that they will be shutting down her branch and making everyone work from home, she goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep in order to keep her ‘work family’ together.
Ward is best known as a stand-up and for ABC series Spicks and Specks and The Ronnie Johns Half Hour. She also appeared in Wakefield and The Inbetweeners.
Additional cast includes Edith Poor (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Power of the Dog), Steen Raskopoulos (The Duchess, Feel Good), Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires, Thor: Love and Thunder), Josh Thomson...
Gervais’ David Brent will become Hannah Howard in the series, with Ward putting her own spin on bad team management at packaging company Flinley Craddick. When she gets news from Head Office that they will be shutting down her branch and making everyone work from home, she goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep in order to keep her ‘work family’ together.
Ward is best known as a stand-up and for ABC series Spicks and Specks and The Ronnie Johns Half Hour. She also appeared in Wakefield and The Inbetweeners.
Additional cast includes Edith Poor (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, The Power of the Dog), Steen Raskopoulos (The Duchess, Feel Good), Shari Sebbens (The Sapphires, Thor: Love and Thunder), Josh Thomson...
- 5/31/2023
- by Jesse Whittock
- Deadline Film + TV
“The Office” comedy franchise will see middle management led by a woman for the first time in an Australian version that will play on Amazon’s Prime Video.
Australian comedian and actor Felicity Ward will portray Hannah Howard, the MD of packaging company Flinley Craddick in “The Office Australia.” In a post-covid plot twist, Howard gets news from head office that her branch will be shutting down and that staff will have to work from home. She goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep and launches outlandish plots in order to keep her “work family” together.
The Australian adaptation is the 13th iteration of the show that was originally created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Other international retreads have included those in France, Canada, Chile, Israel and the Middle East.
Filming of the eight-part series will commence in Sydney in June. Production is by Prime Video,...
Australian comedian and actor Felicity Ward will portray Hannah Howard, the MD of packaging company Flinley Craddick in “The Office Australia.” In a post-covid plot twist, Howard gets news from head office that her branch will be shutting down and that staff will have to work from home. She goes into survival mode, making promises she can’t keep and launches outlandish plots in order to keep her “work family” together.
The Australian adaptation is the 13th iteration of the show that was originally created by Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant. Other international retreads have included those in France, Canada, Chile, Israel and the Middle East.
Filming of the eight-part series will commence in Sydney in June. Production is by Prime Video,...
- 5/31/2023
- by Katherine Tulich
- Variety Film + TV
The world is melting but fear not: Amazon’s satirical sketch show The Moth Effect is here to repeatedly flap and bump into humanity until all our problems go away.
Created by Nick Boshier and Jazz Twemlow, the Bunya Entertainment series features some of Australia’s best and funniest performers as they punch up and punch themselves, tackling everything from climate change and reality TV to the military industrial complex and time travel paradoxes.
Stars include Bryan Brown, Vincent D’Onofrio, David Wenham, Jack Thompson, Miranda Otto, Ben Lawson, Peter O’Brien, Kate Box, Zoe Terakes, Miranda Tapsell and Jake Ryan alongside Mark Humphries, Nazeem Hussain, Zoe Coombs Marr, Jonny Brugh, Lucinda Price, Dave Woodhead, Louis Hanson, Steen Raskopoulos, Tim Franklin, Sam Cotton, Christiaan van Vuuren, Sarah Bishop, Sam Campbell, Megan Wilding and Brooke Boney.
The Moth Effect is directed by Craig Anderson and Gracie Otto. Produced by Lauren Elliott and Jordana Johnson,...
Created by Nick Boshier and Jazz Twemlow, the Bunya Entertainment series features some of Australia’s best and funniest performers as they punch up and punch themselves, tackling everything from climate change and reality TV to the military industrial complex and time travel paradoxes.
Stars include Bryan Brown, Vincent D’Onofrio, David Wenham, Jack Thompson, Miranda Otto, Ben Lawson, Peter O’Brien, Kate Box, Zoe Terakes, Miranda Tapsell and Jake Ryan alongside Mark Humphries, Nazeem Hussain, Zoe Coombs Marr, Jonny Brugh, Lucinda Price, Dave Woodhead, Louis Hanson, Steen Raskopoulos, Tim Franklin, Sam Cotton, Christiaan van Vuuren, Sarah Bishop, Sam Campbell, Megan Wilding and Brooke Boney.
The Moth Effect is directed by Craig Anderson and Gracie Otto. Produced by Lauren Elliott and Jordana Johnson,...
- 7/21/2021
- by The IF Team
- IF.com.au
Netflix has cancelled The Duchess TV series so, there won't be a second season for the British comedy-drama series. The first season of six episodes was directed by Toby MacDonald and released by the streaming service in September 2020.
Created, written, and executive produced by Katherine Ryan, The Duchess revolves around a fashionably disruptive single mom and ceramics artist named Katherine (Ryan) who lives in London and makes powerful and problematic choices for her life. Her daughter, Olive (Katy Byrne), is her greatest love so she debates a second child with her greatest enemy -- Olive's dad, Shep (Rory Keenan). Steen Raskopoulos, Michelle de Swarte, Sophie Fletcher, and Doon Mackichan also star in the series.
News of the show's cancellation comes from Ryan herself. While being interviewed by Vicky Pattison for her The Secret To... comedy podcast,...
Created, written, and executive produced by Katherine Ryan, The Duchess revolves around a fashionably disruptive single mom and ceramics artist named Katherine (Ryan) who lives in London and makes powerful and problematic choices for her life. Her daughter, Olive (Katy Byrne), is her greatest love so she debates a second child with her greatest enemy -- Olive's dad, Shep (Rory Keenan). Steen Raskopoulos, Michelle de Swarte, Sophie Fletcher, and Doon Mackichan also star in the series.
News of the show's cancellation comes from Ryan herself. While being interviewed by Vicky Pattison for her The Secret To... comedy podcast,...
- 5/1/2021
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
The Duchess‘ reign has come to a swift end: Netflix has cancelled the comedy series after one season, TVLine has confirmed.
Series star Katherine Ryan first broke the news on Wednesday’s episode of Vicky Pattison’s The Secret To… podcast, sharing that Netflix “didn’t want to make any more. Not enough people watched it. I think something like 10 million people watched it in 28 days, and that wasn’t enough.”
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Series star Katherine Ryan first broke the news on Wednesday’s episode of Vicky Pattison’s The Secret To… podcast, sharing that Netflix “didn’t want to make any more. Not enough people watched it. I think something like 10 million people watched it in 28 days, and that wasn’t enough.”
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- 4/29/2021
- by Rebecca Iannucci
- TVLine.com
The Duchess, the comedy from British-based comedian Katherine Ryan, has been cancelled by Netflix after one season.
The six-part series launched in September 2020 but will not return. It is centered around the powerful and problematic choices of a fashionably disruptive single mom living in London. Her daughter, Olive, is her greatest love so she debates a second child with her greatest enemy — Olive’s dad.
Ryan revealed the news on Vicky Pattison’s The Secret To… podcast. “[Netflix] didn’t want to make any more, not enough people watched it. I think something like 10 million people watched it in 28 days and that wasn’t enough,” she said. “But also, I’m not terribly sad about it. I feel like it’s a whole lot of work, a whole lot of time to make a sitcom. I was so grateful to able to make it, but I think it speaks for itself.
The six-part series launched in September 2020 but will not return. It is centered around the powerful and problematic choices of a fashionably disruptive single mom living in London. Her daughter, Olive, is her greatest love so she debates a second child with her greatest enemy — Olive’s dad.
Ryan revealed the news on Vicky Pattison’s The Secret To… podcast. “[Netflix] didn’t want to make any more, not enough people watched it. I think something like 10 million people watched it in 28 days and that wasn’t enough,” she said. “But also, I’m not terribly sad about it. I feel like it’s a whole lot of work, a whole lot of time to make a sitcom. I was so grateful to able to make it, but I think it speaks for itself.
- 4/29/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Stars: Katherine Ryan, Rory Keenan, Katy Byrne, Steen Raskopoulos, Michelle de Swarte, Sophie Fletcher | Created by Katherine Ryan
When I discovered that Katherine Ryan was starting in a series (which she also helps to direct) I won’t lie I was very taken back… I know Katherine Ryan as a stand-up comedian; I know for her perspectives on feminism and somewhat crude jokes. Initially, I was very shocked by the inclusion of Ryan mainly due to the fact that she is more well-known for appearing on comedy panel shows and performing live; and so I have never really thought of her as an actress but actually I was very surprised by how well she performed here.
The Duchess is clearly a passion project from Katherine, as she not only wrote the entire series herself but also she stars in the series while playing herself. This is a show that uniquely...
When I discovered that Katherine Ryan was starting in a series (which she also helps to direct) I won’t lie I was very taken back… I know Katherine Ryan as a stand-up comedian; I know for her perspectives on feminism and somewhat crude jokes. Initially, I was very shocked by the inclusion of Ryan mainly due to the fact that she is more well-known for appearing on comedy panel shows and performing live; and so I have never really thought of her as an actress but actually I was very surprised by how well she performed here.
The Duchess is clearly a passion project from Katherine, as she not only wrote the entire series herself but also she stars in the series while playing herself. This is a show that uniquely...
- 9/21/2020
- by Rhys Payne
- Nerdly
It’s hard to think of something less risky for a performer than making a big show of being daring.
On Netflix’s new show “The Duchess,” series creator and star Katherine Ryan makes a very big deal out of transgressing, playing a character whose showy amorality feels borrowed from other, better shows. Ryan’s character, also named Katherine, is a London mom who doubles as a chaos agent. Two minutes into the first episode, Katherine tells off a fellow mom at the playground, calling her daughter (who has a learning disability) “dicks-lexic.” She later sends nudes of herself to this unfortunate woman’s husband in an attempt to break them up. This is all table-setting for the show’s main action, in which Katherine torments and is tormented by her ex (Rory Keenan), with whom she wants a second child; her vacillations about what she really wants, and the...
On Netflix’s new show “The Duchess,” series creator and star Katherine Ryan makes a very big deal out of transgressing, playing a character whose showy amorality feels borrowed from other, better shows. Ryan’s character, also named Katherine, is a London mom who doubles as a chaos agent. Two minutes into the first episode, Katherine tells off a fellow mom at the playground, calling her daughter (who has a learning disability) “dicks-lexic.” She later sends nudes of herself to this unfortunate woman’s husband in an attempt to break them up. This is all table-setting for the show’s main action, in which Katherine torments and is tormented by her ex (Rory Keenan), with whom she wants a second child; her vacillations about what she really wants, and the...
- 9/2/2020
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Back: Tegan Higginbotham & Tom Walker, Middle: Steen Raskopoulos, Cal Wilson, Rhys Darby & Susie Youssef, Front: Tommy Little & Bridie Connell (Photo credit: Foxtel/Kelly Gardner)
The Comedy Channel has revealed the cast of its local adaptation of the popular improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
The lineup boasts the likes of Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, Hunt for the Wilderpeople), alongside comedy festival favourites Cal Wilson, Tegan Higginbotham, Susie Youssef, Steen Raskopoulos and newcomers Bridie Connell and Tom Walker.
The ten-part series is currently filming in front of live audiences in Melbourne, led by host Tommy Little.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia will air later this year on The Comedy Channel.
It is executive produced by Kevin Whyte, Guesswork Television, and Craig Campbell, +61 TV. .
The Comedy Channel has revealed the cast of its local adaptation of the popular improv comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
The lineup boasts the likes of Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords, Hunt for the Wilderpeople), alongside comedy festival favourites Cal Wilson, Tegan Higginbotham, Susie Youssef, Steen Raskopoulos and newcomers Bridie Connell and Tom Walker.
The ten-part series is currently filming in front of live audiences in Melbourne, led by host Tommy Little.
Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia will air later this year on The Comedy Channel.
It is executive produced by Kevin Whyte, Guesswork Television, and Craig Campbell, +61 TV. .
- 7/19/2016
- by Staff Writer
- IF.com.au
You might not know her name, but Jessica Gunning has been part of some of the best, most ground-breaking British film and TV of the last decade. Born in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire ("... where Last of the Summer Wine was filmed," she says. "Claim to fame!"), Gunning later joined the National Theatre where she shared the stage with Hayley Atwell.
Unforgettable moments in Doctor Who (destroyed by CGI munchkins), Fortitude (by far some of the icy drama's grisliest scenes) and BBC Three comedy Top Coppers have confirmed her place as an exciting talent.
1. Doctor Who (2008)
Gunning brought charm to the part of poor Stacey Campbell, who met a darkly comic fate - she melted and was replaced by a pack of adorable Adipose, marshmallow-like blobs that posed an unlikely threat to Earth.
"You do really feel when you're doing Doctor Who that you're part of something that's pretty special," says Gunning.
Unforgettable moments in Doctor Who (destroyed by CGI munchkins), Fortitude (by far some of the icy drama's grisliest scenes) and BBC Three comedy Top Coppers have confirmed her place as an exciting talent.
1. Doctor Who (2008)
Gunning brought charm to the part of poor Stacey Campbell, who met a darkly comic fate - she melted and was replaced by a pack of adorable Adipose, marshmallow-like blobs that posed an unlikely threat to Earth.
"You do really feel when you're doing Doctor Who that you're part of something that's pretty special," says Gunning.
- 9/9/2015
- Digital Spy
Young TV newcomer Rio Myers stars alongside comedians John Kearns (Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Award Winner 2014) and Steen Raskopoulos (2014 Edinburgh Best Newcomer nominee) in Top Coppers in new BBC Three comedy series Top Coppers.
Rio (represented by D&B Management) plays Intelligence specialist, technology expert Zak, who just happens to be a 10-year-old boy. He coordinates crime intelligence via his computer (or ‘information box’ as Rust calls it). Everyone is aware that he is a child, but they never acknowledge it and never talk down to him like a child.
Despite being only 10, he talks about life and work with the wealth of experience of a man in his forties, though still drawing on the references of a child. He is a bit of a prankster and isn’t intimidated by anyone.
Top Coppers follows the adventures of cops John Mahogany (Raskopoulos) and Mitch Rust (Kearns), as they attempt to...
Rio (represented by D&B Management) plays Intelligence specialist, technology expert Zak, who just happens to be a 10-year-old boy. He coordinates crime intelligence via his computer (or ‘information box’ as Rust calls it). Everyone is aware that he is a child, but they never acknowledge it and never talk down to him like a child.
Despite being only 10, he talks about life and work with the wealth of experience of a man in his forties, though still drawing on the references of a child. He is a bit of a prankster and isn’t intimidated by anyone.
Top Coppers follows the adventures of cops John Mahogany (Raskopoulos) and Mitch Rust (Kearns), as they attempt to...
- 8/11/2015
- by noreply@blogger.com (ScreenTerrier)
- ScreenTerrier
The cast of BBC Three's forthcoming comedy Top Coppers has been announced.
The show, which recently began filming, stars Fonejacker's Kayvan Novak and newcomers John Kearns and Steen Raskopoulos.
Kearns won the Best Comedy Show award at Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2014, and Raskopoulos was also nominated for Best Newcomer.
The pair will star as detectives in the Justice City Police Department in the spoof comedy series.
Simon Farnaby, Lydia Rose Bewley, Paul Ritter, James Fleet and Danny John-Jules will also appear in the show.
Top Coppers is created by Cein McGillicuddy and Andy Kinnear and directed by Cein McGillicuddy.
BBC Commissioning Editor for Comedy Chris Sussman said: "I couldn't be more excited about Top Coppers.
"John Kearns and Steen Raskopoulos are two of the most exciting young comedians around, and the scripts are some of the funniest I've read in ages. It's fast-paced and brilliantly silly, and I don't...
The show, which recently began filming, stars Fonejacker's Kayvan Novak and newcomers John Kearns and Steen Raskopoulos.
Kearns won the Best Comedy Show award at Foster's Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2014, and Raskopoulos was also nominated for Best Newcomer.
The pair will star as detectives in the Justice City Police Department in the spoof comedy series.
Simon Farnaby, Lydia Rose Bewley, Paul Ritter, James Fleet and Danny John-Jules will also appear in the show.
Top Coppers is created by Cein McGillicuddy and Andy Kinnear and directed by Cein McGillicuddy.
BBC Commissioning Editor for Comedy Chris Sussman said: "I couldn't be more excited about Top Coppers.
"John Kearns and Steen Raskopoulos are two of the most exciting young comedians around, and the scripts are some of the funniest I've read in ages. It's fast-paced and brilliantly silly, and I don't...
- 2/25/2015
- Digital Spy
.You can have the most whizz-bang camera moves and special effects but unless you have a great idea it.s absolutely meaningless..
So says veteran actor David Wenham, best known for such projects as 300 and Lord of the Rings, and more recently Killing Time.
.I think the most important element in any film or television piece is the idea itself. And it has to be a really unique, original idea..
Content creators need to keep this in mind . particularly those competing for the Optus One80Project crown as Wenham is one of the three main judges. Joining Wenham in his second year as judge is Tomorrow, When The War Began actor Lincoln Lewis and 2010 One80 winner Maia Horniak.
The Optus/MTV competition, now in its sixth year, is an opportunity for aspiring TV makers to jumpstart their career with the opportunity to see their big idea brought to life. Entrants...
So says veteran actor David Wenham, best known for such projects as 300 and Lord of the Rings, and more recently Killing Time.
.I think the most important element in any film or television piece is the idea itself. And it has to be a really unique, original idea..
Content creators need to keep this in mind . particularly those competing for the Optus One80Project crown as Wenham is one of the three main judges. Joining Wenham in his second year as judge is Tomorrow, When The War Began actor Lincoln Lewis and 2010 One80 winner Maia Horniak.
The Optus/MTV competition, now in its sixth year, is an opportunity for aspiring TV makers to jumpstart their career with the opportunity to see their big idea brought to life. Entrants...
- 1/25/2012
- by Sam Dallas
- IF.com.au
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