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Returning: Ronny Chieng: International Student

The full season of Ronny Chieng's original comedy will premiere on ABC in early June.

The full season of Ronny Chieng: International Student will premiere in early June.

The series, produced by Sticky Pictures, had a pilot airing during ABC’s Comedy Showroom initiative and becomes ABC’s first co-production with Comedy Central.

Rick Kalowski, ABC Head of Comedy and series Executive Producer, says: “I couldn’t be more excited to launch Ronny Chieng: International Student. Joyously funny and perfectly on point for these tricky times in Australian cultural identity, the show is a sheer delight from start to finish”.

Donna Andrews, Sticky Pictures’ CEO and Producer of the series says, “Ronny Chieng: International Student is a riotous exploration of the life of a university student, not only through the eyes of an international student, but from Ronny’s unique comedic perspective. This series is full of surprises!”

In the show (as in real life), Ronny is a Malaysian student who’s come to Australia to study law. Though smart, driven and competitive, he’s also blunt and barbed, so it’s not long before Ronny is at odds with most people on campus. Adding to Ronny’s rollercoaster is his relationship with his Malaysia-based mum, which veers between affection and agitation, often in the space of a single conversation, and a friendship with all-Australian classmate Asher (Molly Daniels) that could mean something more – if Ronny can ever work up the courage.

Wednesday, 7 June at 9pm on ABC.

 

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  1. This was my favourite pilot from the Comedy Showroom. But have you noticed how the shows that do get picked for full series always have a co-production element to them? Ronny and his association with Comedy Central and Skitbox Wham Bam (Fresh Blood) with Seeso?

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