Sean Condon & Rob Hibbert's "I Can't Believe It's Not Better" premieres on The Comedy Channel, 9pm Thursday - director Erin White joins Verve
Whybin\TBWA, Melbourne copywriter Rob Hibbert and Visual Identity, Melbourne copywriter Sean Condon's comedy drama I Can't Believe It's Not Better, directed by Erin White, will premiere on the Comedy Channel at 9pm this Thursday December 3. I Can't Believe It's Not Better is an edgy behind-the-scenes look at a TV sketch comedy show that follows the writers, producers, network executives and actors involved in the difficult business of being funny.
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Condon and Hibbert won a $25,000 development grant as part of the
Comedy Gold initiative at the 2007 Screen Producers of Australian
annual conference.
Ahead of the Premiere, Verve Films has announced that four-time AFI nominated and IF Award-winning director Erin White will join the company in 2010 for commercial representation. Erin is one of Australia's most promising young directors. In 2009 her short film fOUR won the Flickerfest Audience Award and was selected to screen at the G'day USA RADAR Showcase in Los Angeles. In 2008 fOUR won the IF Award for Best Short Film; Outstanding Filmmaker Award at the prestigious Hatchfest Festival in Bozeman Montana; as well as the SMPTE Collaborative Award for excellence in Visual Effects. It was nominated for two AFI Awards for Best Short Film and Best Screenplay in a Short Film; and has won and been nominated for many craft awards both in Australia and internationally.
Erin's earlier short film Dugong screened in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival as well as the 2007 Aspen Short Film Festival, and was the winner of the Flickerfest 2008 Seed Productions Award for Best Achievement in an Original Australian Screenplay and the St Kilda Film Festival 2008 Best Achievement in a Screenplay award. In 2007 Dugong was nominated for two AFI Awards for Best Short Film and Best Screenplay in a Short Film, as well as an Australian Directors' Guild Award.
In 2007 Erin was nominated for the Atlab IF Award for Rising Talent. Her 2005 Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) graduating film 62 Sleeps won the Dendy Award for Drama Under 15 minutes at the Sydney Film Festival, and the Young Talent Award at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools.
Erin also recently directed two episodes of Rush for Southern Star John Edwards/Network 10 and was given the honour of writing and directing the Flickerfest 2010 trailer.
Erin holds a Masters in Directing from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney, Australia.
Ahead of the Premiere, Verve Films has announced that four-time AFI nominated and IF Award-winning director Erin White will join the company in 2010 for commercial representation. Erin is one of Australia's most promising young directors. In 2009 her short film fOUR won the Flickerfest Audience Award and was selected to screen at the G'day USA RADAR Showcase in Los Angeles. In 2008 fOUR won the IF Award for Best Short Film; Outstanding Filmmaker Award at the prestigious Hatchfest Festival in Bozeman Montana; as well as the SMPTE Collaborative Award for excellence in Visual Effects. It was nominated for two AFI Awards for Best Short Film and Best Screenplay in a Short Film; and has won and been nominated for many craft awards both in Australia and internationally.
Erin's earlier short film Dugong screened in competition at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival as well as the 2007 Aspen Short Film Festival, and was the winner of the Flickerfest 2008 Seed Productions Award for Best Achievement in an Original Australian Screenplay and the St Kilda Film Festival 2008 Best Achievement in a Screenplay award. In 2007 Dugong was nominated for two AFI Awards for Best Short Film and Best Screenplay in a Short Film, as well as an Australian Directors' Guild Award.
In 2007 Erin was nominated for the Atlab IF Award for Rising Talent. Her 2005 Victorian College of the Arts (VCA) graduating film 62 Sleeps won the Dendy Award for Drama Under 15 minutes at the Sydney Film Festival, and the Young Talent Award at the Munich International Festival of Film Schools.
Erin also recently directed two episodes of Rush for Southern Star John Edwards/Network 10 and was given the honour of writing and directing the Flickerfest 2010 trailer.
Erin holds a Masters in Directing from the Australian Film Television and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney, Australia.
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Excellent to see copywriters getting TV shows up.
Bummer that Mick Molloy's The Jesters premiered this year with what sounds like the same premise. 30 Rock is a hilarious behind-the-scenes of a sketch comedy show.
Plus, how "edgy" is behind-the-scenes of a TV show these days? Shandling was doing that in the early 90s.
Looking forward to checking it out all the same.
Sean = piss funny.
I wanted to read more about Sean Condon and Rob HIbbert's "I can't believe it's not better", not Erin White's CV. Where's a preview?
Oh, it's 30 Rock.
Great to see ad folk doing creative things outside agencies.
Hey 4:55, so true. But there is a link in the article.
http://www.thecomedychannel.com.au/WhatsOn/Detail.aspx?id=369
Same people in the same shows and TV commercials.
Australia really needs some new talent, it's the same old faces on TV all the time.
Great stuff Rob, well done mate
This is funny shit - I need to get me a pair of cocktickles!
6:11 - How many shows have you seen set in a Police station or a Law firm? This looks funny and educational. I've always wanted to know how to make a glory hole.
I reckon it's great that Sean and Rob have had a go. From the clip, the show looks funny. At least it's not another cop show.
As far as originality goes, they pitched this and won the Comedy Channel prize TWO years ago! It's hard and takes along time to get TV shows up- especially in Australia. Good on you fellas! We need more people like youse.
Fxckin funny! How come only 1 episode?
Went to the site, one side of the page tells me to "Register now or the penguin gets it" while the RSPCA has the ad across the right hand side. That's comedy.
This looks great. I think Erin White has huge potential, I saw fOUR last year and thought it was brilliant.
I think Randall Berger is terrific as Buddy Bishop! What a talent! So Hot. You always have to watch those chubby ones! I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S NOT going to be the longest running comedy series in Australia!
(Not by Randall)