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Shaun Micallef is Mad as Hell is a hilarious Australian news-comedy show that satirizes current events and politics. Hosted by the talented Shaun Micallef, the show is a must-watch for anyone who loves witty humor and sharp commentary.

Jane is a cocky Korean-Australian adoptee with a love of hairy white guys - the hairier and whiter the better. When her friends call her out for having a white man fetish she sets out to try and reprogram her libido, reignites a connection with childhood friend, Yu Chang and stumbles into the process of finding out who she really is. From hens' nights to country weddings, moon crystals, "gotcha" days and adoptee dinners, it's a K-Pop-infused, action-packed, wild ride filled with revelations, surprises and a large helping of Asian pop culture.

When a family from Queensland enters witness protection in Sydney, they must adapt to new identities and face the dangers of their past. Hiding is a thrilling drama that explores the complexities of family, loyalty, and survival. Watch as the family navigates through their new lives.

Get ready to laugh and learn with The Weekly with Charlie Pickering. This half-hour news comedy exposes the absurd and hypocritical, 24/7, once a week. Join Charlie Pickering as he delivers witty commentary on current events and politics. Premiering in 2015, this show is a must-watch for anyone who wants to stay informed and entertained.

Heartbreak High is a hip and realistic series about the lives of teenagestudents, their families and teachers at a high school. Heartbreak High is set in an inner city school at Sydney Beach, Hartley High, within a multi-racial area. Heartbreak High was originally a stage play which producer, Ben Gannon, turned into a successful film The Heartbreak Kid in 1993. The show captured more than 70 per cent of the youth audience in its first five weeks of broadcast in Australia.

Award-winning actor and producer Anthony LaPaglia unravels an epic story of Italian organised crime gang - the Black Hand - which terrorised Italian Australians working around the cane fields of North Queensland in the 1930s.

Follow Marc Fennell on a globe-trotting, emotional quest for the truth as he unravels the twisted mysteries behind six iconic and priceless objects taken by the British Empire and meets those who want them back.

This six-part comedy series tracks the trials and tribulations of five car loads of travellers in peak hour morning transit and again on their drive home to find out how the workday turned out.

With no sense of on-camera technique, the Kate's will shuffle through a roster of unsafe demonstrations, surly guests, underprepared experts and the over-lit decomposition of the duo's already rocky relationship. Like any televisual format that The Kates put their rough, manly hands to, things on Get Krack!n' will go downhill fast. Frankly, whatever the hour, an audience deserves better.

Inspired by Australia's radical response to AIDS in the 1980s, In Our Blood tells the story of a community grappling with a terrifying new disease. With no cure in sight, they realise they will need something truly radical to survive, trust.

Our thirties and forties are the busiest time of our lives. The extended Tivolli clan is right in the thick of it - kids, career advancement, home ownership, settling in with the one you love; still trying to find the one you love; getting away from the one you used to love. It's the time of our frantic, messy, frustrating, funny, sometimes awful, lives.

This Australian comedy features the life of Frances O'Brien, a devout Catholic woman who suffers from a panic disorder and serves as Head Librarian at the Middleton Interactive Learning Centre. Life gets interesting when her former best friend who is facing criminal charges becomes her co-worker.

As our third longest serving Prime Minister, Andrew Dugdale mattered. He dined with presidents and kings, hosted world summits and changed the lives of millions of his fellow Australians. But now he's retired; a not-so-elder statesman with time on his hands to ponder the question - was it all worth it? Not that he's asking of course. No, his inquisitive and over enthusiastic ghostwriter Ellen has an unhelpfully insatiable appetite for the truth.

When ten-year-old Maudie, a freakishly gifted observer of human behaviour, forms an investigator agency with her classmates Ezra, Ava and Kyle, no school or neighbourhood crime is left unsolved.

The Hollowmen is a political comedy/drama which follows the goings-on of the Central Policy Unit, a think tank set up by the Prime Minister to help him get re-elected.

This is an Australian television series starring The Chaser's Julian Morrow and Craig Reucassel, in a 10-part series on exposing the nasty tricks that see Australian consumers ripped off and manipulated.

A 3-part observational documentary investigating a key cultural issue of our time - Australia's changing sense of nationhood during a period of increasing globalisation and fractious identity politics - through the deeply personal lens of Miriam Margolyes's own sense of becoming a new Australian.

Australia's boldest and most inspired home renovators put their skills, finances and relationships to the test in the quest to create their perfect homes.

Sando is Australia's queen of the discount furniture package deal. She's built her empire on being a down-to-earth larrikin and is something of a national treasure - to all but her family. They banished her a decade ago when her one-night stand (and resulting pregnancy) by her daughter's fiancé was shockingly revealed at his wedding to her daughter. Now, after a health scare, her career on a precipice and her professional nemesis primed to push her into the abyss, Sando is determined to rekindle the family relationship. She needs them, and in spite of their initial apprehension...and unbridled hatred...soon they'll discover they might actually need her too.

Diary of an Uber Drivers follows Uber driver Ben as he tries to figure out what he should be doing while helping others get where they're going. Ben tries to decipher what it means to be relevant against the ticking clock of impending fatherhood and in a relationship that seems like he's surplus to requirements. Ben has a revolving car door of human behaviour to trawl through for clues.

Dissect the news to sort the real from the rumours, separate fact from fiction and flatten conspiracy theories back down to Earth.

This is a wacky TV series written by the hilarious children's author, Paul Jennings. It follows the bizarre lives of the Twist family. Tony Twist (aka dad) and his three children- the twins Pete and Linda and youngest son, Bronson- move from "The Big Smoke" (the city) to the sea-side village of Port Niranda. They move into an old lighthouse, previously owned by their new neighbour, Nell, and their new lives begin. Strange things happen to the Twist family, strange but hilarious things. The series has been running since 1989 with several new actors stepping in to fill the spaces of those all grown up.

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The dramatic inside story of nine years of Coalition government. Multiple leadership coups, internal wars over policy, three dramatic elections, and a global pandemic which turned Australian politics on its head.

Hot Fuzz meets Haven, Aussie-style: A lighthearted, supernatural cop show set in a fictional Australian seaside community called Coolum. A young constable arrives to take the night shift, answering calls from the residents who apparently have some special problems at night. His girlfriend dumps him; his office is a beat-up trailer; and his side-kick is an elderly gentleman who favors a Dungeons-and-Dragons style board game. "It can get pretty weird around here when the sun goes down."