Don’t miss Verve Films director Erin White’s controversial new four-part comedy series ‘At home with Julia’ – starts 9.30 tonight on ABC1
At Home With Julia, the new comedy series directed by Verve Films’ Erin White,(pictured with actress Amanda Bishop as Julia) will premiere on ABC 1 tonight, Wednesday September 7 at 9.30pm.
Described as a ‘political satire / love story / Federal Police surveillance target’, the 4 x 30 minute narrative comedy takes viewers into the life of PM Julia Gillard and boyfriend Tim Mathieson behind the closed doors of The Lodge. Erin White directed all four episodes.
Says the show’s executive producer/co-writer Rick Kalowski: “Based on her outstanding work on the At Home With Julia series, I cannot recommend Erin highly enough as a director, not only for comedy but for drama as well. Erin’s highly skilled technically, story-focussed, extremely sensitive to bringing out her fellow creatives’ vision, and has the ideal director’s temperament – calm and unruffled but focussed and very clear about what she wants. Just don’t book her up so totally I can’t work with her again as soon as possible.”
Starring Amanda Bishop (STC Wharf Revue, Double Take, Penelope K by the way) as Julia and AFI Award winner Phil Lloyd as Tim (Review with Myles Barlow), At Home With Julia is a Quail Television production for ABC1. ABC Executive Producer is Debbie Lee. Quail TV Executive Producers are Rick Kalowski and Greg Quail. The series is written by Amanda Bishop, Rick Kalowski and Phil Lloyd. Director is Erin White. Series Producer is Carol Hughes.
Other ‘characters’ to appear in the show include Kevin Rudd, Paul Keating, Tony Jones, Wayne Swan, Bob Katter, Rob Oakeshott, Tony Abbott and Alan Jones.
Says Verve partner Carolyn Starkey: “I can’t wait to see the show in its entirety, and I’m looking forward to doing some more comedy TVCs with Erin.”
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Congratulations Erin could not happen to a nicer lady.
There’s something seriously flawed about this idea and Bishop’s impersonation.
@2:35 thankfully your work in advertising and not a creative field like entertainment.
The intelligent lampooning of public figures, especially politicians, has been absent from the telly for too long. Good on the ABC for having the guts to make a show like this. Surely it’s time for a new series of Hollow Men, too. I’ll be watching tonight.
Saw it last night. Possibly the worst half hour of television in all my days. It might be one thing to impersonate someone (poorly) but to try to mount a TV series on that is get way in over your head. It was like a badly conceived, poorly written year 8 high school play. Utterly cringeworthy, amateurish and not the slightest bit funny.
I quite liked it
I loved the independents great casting.
At home with Julia borders on becoming an Australian classic – holding the show back may be our PM’s stunted tenure and the show may be the only residue from the Gillard P. Ministership. It’s very funny, Amanda is a peach, Gillard, although skewered is treated with affection and it’s timely. Who’d a thunk we had so many gifted mimics – the bloke who plays Oakeshot nailed the wordy weasel.
Erin white is also to be watched –
Political comedy is too rare on Australian TV – keep it up ABC and a Valentine to Amanda Bishop and Phil Lloyd.
Thommo