Gruen returns to ABC1, Wednesday, June 16
The Gruen Transfer returns to ABC1, Wednesday, June 16, at 9pm! New and improved! With 12 episodes instead of 10!
THAT’S 20% MORE GRUEN AT THE SAME OLD PRICE!
Offer will not be repeated! (Except on ABC2 on Thursdays at 8.30pm!)
Okay, time to change font and get serious. Season Three of THE GRUEN TRANSFER will be BIGGER – with 12 episodes – and better than before. Really. They’ve been away 12 months and there’s a lot to talk about. You want plans? They’ve got ’em. But if they told you all the surprises, they wouldn’t be surprises anymore. Trust ’em though, there will be many. One will feature the worst ads of all time. And none will involve you finding out Tony Abbott is your long lost father.
Wil Anderson returns after touring the world with his sell-out show
Wilful Misconduct, appearing on Chelsea Lately and gaining a Gold Logie
nomination. Joining him will be regulars Todd Sampson, Russel Howcroft,
Jane Caro, Matt Eastwood, Dan Gregory, Dee Madigan, (Singapore-based Kiwi expat) Bridget Taylor,
Bram Williams, Rowan Dean and Carolyn Miller.
Old favourite segments including The Pitch – where two agencies compete
to sell the unsellable – will also return, alongside new offerings,
which we’ll fill you in on soon. They’re also upping the ante online (so anyone in the world can watch),
with exclusive and extended content scheduled for the Gruen website
Through two seasons, THE GRUEN TRANSFER has averaged more than a
million viewers a week. It still holds the record for the biggest ever
debut of a Light Entertainment program on ABC-TV – its first episode
was seen by 1.287 million viewers on 2008.
THE GRUEN TRANSFER is a Zapruder’s other films co-production with
ABC-TV. Executive Producers are Andrew Denton, Anita Jacoby and Sophia
Zachariou. The show was co-created by Andrew Denton and Jon Casimir. It
is produced by Jon Casimir. Supervising Producer is Debbie Cuell.
21 Comments
I’m so excited.
And I just can’t hide it.
I love the Gruen but Wil Anderson makes me want to drink my own vomit.
some of the comments are gold
damn, 9.03
leo’s have removed said video from youtube. let’s hope someone’s cached it.
So good to be back on the telly.
Onyas!
how does wil anderson keep getting work?
I’m assuming Wil wrote the press release. Funnest I’ve seen in a while.
9:03 – I know I know I know I know I know I want you, I want you…
Not worthy of a third season, surely.
Is this ad really about chocolate?
Mmmm, let me guess. Ah, no don’t tell me; don’t tell me… Oh yeah, I know, it’s a metaphor for the act of fellatio. Am I right?
Jesus, give us a break! I’m so over this try-hard, ABC Establishment, aren’t-we-so-irreverent humour for halfsmart teenagers. This Will be yet another instalment in the Zapruder’s Other Films franchise of sophomoric, quirky-ironic, current affairs and pop culture referencing drivel all neatly packaged up as thinking man’s entertainment. And it’ll be peppered with more of the same wry but unfunny Denton-style political gags for the overly-bright high school student. Because that’s his market.
The whole dumbed-down TV panel show thing – it’s like watching a fucking Blankety Blanks episode that never ends. She’s a tired old format.
Refresh the panel at least. I can’t listen to the seemingly scripted answers of one of the main panelists for another season. Sorry but that’s the way I feel.
12.43, you are so superior, an intellectual giant, I feel so inferior in your company.How dare I like something as low brow as The Gruen. I will immediately diss it.
The Gruen sucks. The Gruen sucks. The Gruen sucks. Long live 12.43
And what impenetrable, fiendishly clever fare do you prefer, 12:43. Or is ALL television beneath you?
Now, now, don’t get… defensive. I realise we must ALL worship the almighty Tube, as it were, of the hungry beast that is Television. You guys only want the mic in the poor punter’s hand if you already know what they’re gonna say and what your subsequent boom-boom retort will be. It’s such a self-serving and artificial medium. And the irony is that ABC packages its content like it’s some kind of edgy alternative when in reality it just amounts to a different kind of sausage machine.
9.38 am
try youku.com
What a pleasure it is, Sir, to find a fellow-traveller on the blog who can at least express a thoughtfully cynical view of the world in interesting language, even if at first you came across as a bit of a tosser. At least it’s a refreshing change from the schoolyard level hair-pulling that passes for comment and debate amongst the kiddies on this blog.
No, really. It’s sometimes very lonely being in the top 2%, isn’t it?
12:43. That was funny. And I prefer The Daily Show. It’s actually funny as opposed to conforming to some semantic code of funny. I too am smart, too.
The Daily Show is, indeed, very very funny.
Not as funny as that supergay Leo’s video, but still very, very funny.
Thanks 3.27.
Very nice 12:43 you took the words right out of my mouth…
Come on, what comes after that? Benny? I know you’re trawlin the ole blog.
I have found you at last 12.43.
Time for bed.
Bad Benny!!!