Returning: The Gruen Transfer
Wil Anderson is back to have a ball ripping ads to shreds, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft and a few new faces too.
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Well here’s some good news, Wil Anderson and his gang are coming back to screens in The Gruen Transfer next month.
And there will be four additional new faces.
“100 per cent new and improved,” claims ABC. “It cleans. It brightens. It slices. It dices. It gets rid of acne. It comes with a free set of serrated knives and an abdominal flexer. It could be yours for only 83 small, weekly payments of $49.95…*”
Undoubtedly one of the hit shows of 2008, the unforgiving dissection of the advertising industry is both smart and funny. Produced by Denton’s Zapruder’s Other Films it has a 10 week season from Wednesdays from March 18 at 9pm (take note, Chaser fans).
Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft return along with Jane Caro, Matt Eastwood, Dan Gregory, Dee Madigan and Bridget Taylor. The Gruen panel is strengthened by four new faces: Rebecca Carrasco, Rowan Dean, Matt Jones and Carolyn Miller.
“Each of these brave adventurers made it through a gruelling, Survivor-style audition process in February. More than 100 people (we stopped counting when it started to seem daunting) were interviewed for the roles,” says the nework.
The Pitch and online hit Consumer Revenge both also return -last year, an astonishing 10,000 clips were created for Gruen Beer, Bank and Beauty products. This year viewers get the chance to pit their skills against Baz Luhrmann and come up with a tourism campaign to sell Australia to the world.
“*Price may be higher if we need cash for the show. Actual contents and effects of the show may not match description. Model shown in ad may not be the same as the one we’re selling here.”
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16 Responses
Great to see it back. Wonderfull that ABC is actually continueing good shows rather than cancelling them. Q and A is another good example.
@Lewis I think David is suggesting that after the 10 week run we will see Chaser. That would be as of 27 May.
This is one of the best shows on TV. Intelligent, funny, stimulating, interesting. A line up of Spicks and Specks, Gruen and The Chaser would be pretty sweet. But didn’t the Chaser used to be on at 9? I can’t remember.
yay!
Excellent news. I loved this show.
Makes a great hour of entertainment following Spicks and Specks!
This show’s ‘mashup’ of all the claims made by anti-aging face creams was one of the highlights of my TV viewing last year. I am therefore quite chuffed it’s returning
Bloody hell, im going to the states for just over a month on March 4, so ill miss the first 3 weeks, hopefully eps 2 and 3 will be on iView when i get home.
Great news. This is a fantansic show!
Can’t wait.
100% Fantastic! Love watching ads getting torn apart!
and invading NZ…priceless!
Great show and isn’t it fun to see advertising people take mickey out of themselves.
Fantastic news! Looking forward to it returning to our screens!
That’s great news, absolutely love this show. Though it’s terrible news for Ten and House, which will probably fall even further with this as competition again.
I always feel a sense of irony when I watch this show using my PVR, which features an ad-skipping function.
Looking forward to it.
Excellent news! I love this show.
Finally something to watch on Wednesday night!! Can’t wait – this show is brillant.