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Re: The Unbelievable Truth - Australian TV version

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kj.naughtonFeb 24, 2012
 

 
Ah, that answers my question of 27 January... It's TV.

I see it's on Channel 7 and the last of the recordings is today (24 Feb), the chairman will be Craig Reucassel and Julian Morrow and Andrew Hansen are "team captains" - which is a new twist over the UK version.

I found a review from an audience member on Encore Magazine's site:

"We went to the first record last night, and the Unbelievable Truth was that is wasn't too bad."

"Graeme Garden chatted to the audience at the start of things and kept a fatherly watch over the proceedings, while Julian Morrow did his best EP impression and Craig Reucassel was as unflappable as usual. Andrew Hanson stole the show in a reprise of the Alan Davies role from QI (which this show seems to borrow a lot of the set-up & interaction from). Guest comedians, Cal Wilson, Scott Dooley performed commenably & Toby Truslove gave a suprising comedic turn co-starring with chickens."

"Nonetheless, for a first-up outing it went well and surprisiongly smoothly, with the irony that the best and most genuinely funny bits will end up in the AVID recycle bin, according to Craig's numerous assertations that this is, after all, going to air on Channel 7."

Encore also say that it's "adapted from the BBC Radio4 show of the same name, co-created by The Goodies' Graeme Garden – who gets a `co-creator' title on this new version".

Sounds like an interesting show in its own right. Quite a bit of TuT, a bit of QI and a few twists of its own.

Cheers

kJ

--- In just-a-minute@..., nylon net <nylon@...> wrote:
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> Hi all. This is a stretch from JAM - but...
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> According to my Melbourne newspaper, The Age (Green Guide 23 Feb, p.2), Graeme Garden is working with an Australian TV network to produce an Oz TV version of The Unbelievable Truth.
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> Believe it or not!
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> Mark

 
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