Swift & Shift to deliver more on SBS
Paul Fenech and his hapless courier co-workers win a second season on SBS, to air later this year.
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SBS has confirmed a second series of Swift and Shift Couriers to air later in 2009.
Written, produced and directed by Paul Fenech (Pizza), the comedy will feature the return of favourite characters from the first series, which included Amanda Keller, Melissa Tkautz, Ian Turpie, Brendan Jones, Kirsty Lee Allan and Angry Anderson.
Fenech’s knockabout humour certainly has its fans, although last season the network agreed it had gone one gag too far after complaints from the family of deceased soldier Jake Kovco, and dropped an episode.
For the second season, currently in pre production, ‘Amanda’ decides to launch a budget courier service that operates out of India to crush her former employer.
The first series will also be repeated from Monday March 23 at 8.30pm on SBS.
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All of these shows now are junk.What about bringing back South Park instead or putting on something that makes people laugh even re screening Iron Chef has got to be better than all this Fat Pizza,Bogan Pride and Swift and Shift couriers nonsense.
Glad second season is being aired. Good show but i think Pizza is better if u watch the earlier seasons you will relise how good it is. Does anyone know if Pizza is going to be aired on sbs again. Missing Fat Pizza Bring it back to SBS and bring back Sleek The Elite!
Where is the second season? Not seeing it on the schedule anytime soon and it’s already getting close to October.
Summer or 2010. Click on show’s Tag for latest info.
Dude if its got Kristy Lee Allan in it ill still watch it =P
I loved this series.. all the stereotypes and the swearing.. sometimes I get stomach cramps laughing sooo hard at this show!
Awesome to hear that a second season is on the way! I cant wait.
I thought bogan pride was usually great as well.. Swift and Shift followed by Bogan Pride made for one hour of the funniest TV I have seen in a while.. well done!!
bring sleek the elite rocky and habib in as new characters and it would be perfect and get rid of alex/djbj.
I love swift and shift this programe is such a crack up! definately buying the DVD, and am so glad theres a second series
I love this show. i work in a similar environment and the crazy comings and goings i can really relate to. and a second series, great news. And what an excellent choice of actors for the parts. GREAT!!
i love this show. i work in an environment very much like this (who doesn’t) and i can really relate to it. It’s great, and what a perfect choice of stars for the parts. and even better, a second series.
Swift and Shift Couriers is miles above Bogan Pride and Fat Pizza. I’m so glad there’s a second series.
I am sooo happy Swift And Shift is coming back !!
I though Pizza was better… Both have the ingredients but just need to be put together a bit better so they don’t become monotonous.
Bogan Pride had it’s moments but only a few of them. The musical numbers were just too silly and had predictable lame lyrics. Rebel plays the same character in every show. The co-star friends were the best of the lot.
@Someone BBBA ; The missing ‘banned’ episode 7 is out there on the net, you just have to look in the usual places. I saw it and really couldn’t understand what all the fuss was about, other than a possibly tasteless remark in the last 10 seconds of the closing credits.
Great news!
However, the first series had too many characters!
Keep the good characters, drop the lesser characters.
Drop that painfully unfunny S&S driver – “Sole” – who damaged both S&S and Pizza 2007 (where he played “Junior”) with his poor attempts at humour!
I loved this series. Great to hear they are making season 2.
Ad in today’s Telegraph looking for “indian” extras for the new series – if anyone’s interested.
im glad that this is coming back for a second season 🙂
Great news! I’m hoping they may repeat the first series or break some news on maybe bringing out a DVD.
Excellent!! 😀 Really enjoyed Swift and Shift last year!!
I thought Bogan Pride was really hysterical – my kids and I just loved it! There’s no compariosn between that and Swift & Shift. Also, what ever happened to John Safran being on SBS, his show was great too!
Safran is back to ABC this year.
I quite liked what I saw, was all of two episodes. I was hoping they’d repeat it, but they brought back Pizza instead. Hopefully they have a recap then, I was in Thailand for the bulk of the season.
Bogan Pride was plain out poor. I watched a few episodes of that and couldn’t be bothered continuing. But I hope it does get a second chance, as it was very different.
They had better play that censored episode this time round. They claimed that part of the reason for not broadcasting it was that a funeral for an Australian solder (not Jake Kovco) was being held the week it was scheduled to be broadcast, so if they continue to avoid showing the episode then it casts great doubt onto the truth of that claim. What this all boils down to is the fact that we, as Australians, are entitled to freely view a television program which was produced with our tax dollars.
Yeah neither are any good.
What about a second series of Bogan Pride? That was a show far superior in comedy and talent than Fenech.