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Movie: The Coca-Cola Kid

(Trailer)An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley. [more inside]
posted by Marky on Feb 11, 2024 - 10 comments

The Artful Dodger: The Artful Dodger  Season 1, Ep 0

15 years after the end of Oliver Twist, the Artful Dodger / Jack Dawkins (Thomas Brodie-Sangster) after a Royal Navy career is a brash surgeon in the penal colony of Port Victory, Australia. Just as he becomes desperate to pay off a debt, his old mentor Fagin (David Thewlis) arrives in chains. Trailer [more inside]
posted by ShooBoo on Jan 27, 2024 - 3 comments

Fisk: Fisk  Season 1, Ep 0

Decider - ‘Fisk’ On Netflix, A Comedy About A Woman Taking An Estate Law Job After Some Life Setbacks: Helen Tudor-Fisk (Kitty Flanagan) used to practice contract law at a high-end Sydney law firm, but after her husband ran off with an older woman, she’s decided to move back to her hometown of Melbourne. Her life is certainly unsettled — she’s living in an Airbnb rental — and she’ll take anything, especially if it involves little interaction with clients. Oh, and she won’t give any references from her old firm. Preview. Kitty Flanagan and the Fisk cast discuss wills and their new Australian legal comedy
posted by ShooBoo on Jan 27, 2024 - 12 comments

Movie: Last Stop Larrimah

Nestled deep in the Australian Outback is the town of Larrimah and its 11 eccentric residents. When one of them mysteriously disappears into thin air, the remaining residents become suspects and a long history of infighting is unveiled. [more inside]
posted by drewbage1847 on Oct 21, 2023 - 0 comments

Book: The Last Continent

The Librarian of Unseen University is sick, and in order to cure him, the Wizards need to know his real name which, uh... none of them do. And he's not telling, because the information could be used to change him back from his preferred form as an orangutan. But an idea! Rincewind might know it! But he accidentally got teleported to the continent of XXXX, and nobody knows where that is. So the Wizards go looking for XXXX, while Rincewind just tries to survive on terra incognita where everything is trying to kill him, well, about the same amount as is usual for Rincewind, really. (Wizards #6, Discworld #22.) By Terry Pratchett. [more inside]
posted by Navelgazer on Sep 27, 2023 - 11 comments

Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: The Final!

736 players, 163 goals, 63 games, 32 teams, 2 host countries, and it'll all come down to 1 champion. [more inside]
posted by Superilla on Aug 19, 2023 - 31 comments

Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Semi-finals

Four teams left. Heartbreak and glory await! [more inside]
posted by Superilla on Aug 14, 2023 - 40 comments

Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Quarter-finals

We're down to 8 teams. Who will progress to the semi-finals, who will kick (or stomp on) who's butt, and who will have an agonizing penalty loss? [more inside]
posted by Superilla on Aug 10, 2023 - 47 comments

Movie: The Dry

[TRAILER] Aaron Falk (Eric Bana) returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl. [more inside]
posted by DirtyOldTown on Aug 9, 2023 - 6 comments

Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Round of 16

And we're down to 16, with glorious knockout glory awaiting. [more inside]
posted by Superilla on Aug 4, 2023 - 28 comments

Special Event: 2023 FIFA Women's World Cup: Match Day 3

Find out who makes it to the Round of 16! [more inside]
posted by the primroses were over on Jul 30, 2023 - 31 comments

Book: The Bus on Thursday by Shirley Barrett

Bridget Jones meets The Exorcist in this wickedly funny, dark novel about one woman’s post-cancer retreat to a remote Australian town and the horrors awaiting her. It wasn’t just the bad breakup that turned Eleanor Mellett’s life upside down. It was the cancer. And all the demons that came with it. [more inside]
posted by Literaryhero on Jul 10, 2023 - 4 comments

The Secrets of Hillsong: (all 4 episodes)  Season 1, Ep 1

Hulu/FX documentary of the rise and mostly fall of the infamous Hillsong megachurch, which used to be international and huge until (a) a few pastors were caught cheating, (b) the founder's pastor dad turned out to be a pedophile, (c) these people spent so much money the Kardashians would be ashamed. Also, shockingly, they are not super gay friendly or PoC friendly either. [more inside]
posted by jenfullmoon on May 30, 2023 - 4 comments

Class of '07: The Beginning of the End of the World  Season 1, Ep 0

A girls' school 10-year reunion coincides with a flood that seems to have wiped out the entire world. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on May 24, 2023 - 5 comments

Wellmania: Season One  Season 1, Ep 0

Liv (Celeste Barber) is an Australian food writer who's about to hit it big in the US. All she needs is to replace her lost green card. And all she needs to do that is pass a physical. And then things get difficult. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Apr 13, 2023 - 1 comment

Movie: Dogs in Space

"Richard Lowenstein’s 1986 masterpiece Dogs in Space was and remains controversial, divisive, compelling and inspirational. Made less than a decade after the events it is based on, using many of the people involved in those events as actors, the film explored Melbourne’s ‘postpunk’ counterculture of share houses, drugs and decadence. Amongst its ensemble cast was Michael Hutchence, one of the biggest music stars of the period, in his acting debut." [more inside]
posted by The corpse in the library on Jan 13, 2023 - 8 comments

Movie: Superman II

Clark Kent meets up with some people from the old hometown, but the reunion isn't a happy one. [more inside]
posted by Halloween Jack on Dec 4, 2022 - 9 comments

Bluey: Season 3 (1st Half (Mostly))  Season 3, Ep 0

The Australian megahit kids' show about the Heeler family: 6-year-old Bluey, her 5-year-old sister Bingo, and parents Bandit and Chilli. They are dogs who live in Brisbane and engage in imaginative play and learn life lessons. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Aug 10, 2022 - 10 comments

Wanted: Chelsea and Lola  Season 1, Ep 1

Lola ( Rebecca Gibney, who is also one of the writers of the show) and Chelsea (Geraldine Hakewell) know nothing of each other, only that they wait for the bus every day at the same time. This all changes when the two women intervene in a fatal carjacking and are subsequently thrust into a chase from authorities across Australia with a vehicle filled with cash. The strangers must rely on each other and their instincts while they are on the run. [more inside]
posted by Zumbador on Jun 23, 2022 - 2 comments

Movie: Alison's Birthday

During a ouija board session, teenage Alison is warned something terrible awaits her during her 19th birthday.
posted by miss-lapin on Oct 9, 2021 - 4 comments

Bluey: Season 2  Season 2, Ep 0

Follow the adventures of a family of Australian heeler dogs in what Vulture calls "the best kids' show of our time". Highlights include "Dance Mode", "Sleepytime", "Cafe", and "Granddad".
posted by Cash4Lead on Jun 2, 2021 - 6 comments

Movie: The Bee Gees: How Can You Mend a Broken Heart

An exploration of the history of the Bee Gees, featuring revealing interviews with oldest brother Barry Gibb, and archival interviews with the late twin brothers Robin and Maurice. - IMDB. Trailer at HBO, YouTube, and Amazon. [more inside]
posted by Iris Gambol on Mar 17, 2021 - 11 comments

Mystery Science Theater 3000: ALIEN FROM L.A.  Rewatch   Season 5, Ep 16

Re-rewatch! At the center of the earth lies, apparently, a lost colony of Australians, living, also apparently, in a half-baked version of the techno-dystopia from the Super Mario Bros movie. Into this falls Wanda Saknussemm, played by supermodel Kathy Ireland, here cast as a high-pitched nerd girl. You know those movies where all a young woman has to do to be popular is lose the spectacles and wear a swimsuit? That's the story here, although it also involves falling down a "bottomless pit," running for her life from an oppressive government and their fiendish "Lotto," and a person with three-inch eyelashes. Also: the movie has a sequel, it turns out! Previously, and again.
posted by JHarris on Mar 4, 2021 - 4 comments

Movie: Wake in Fright

After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on Jun 6, 2020 - 3 comments

Book: The Lost Man, by Jane Harper

"The three Bright brothers are the overseers of 3,500 square kilometers of land in Queensland, with hours between each of their homes. It’s a vast, unforgiving environment, and no one ever goes far without a full complement of supplies. When 40-year-old Cameron sets out on his own, ostensibly to fix a repeater mast, he never comes home. His body is eventually spotted, via helicopter, curled up by the stockman’s grave, the source of plentiful, and persistent, local ghost stories. Cam’s older brother, Nathan, and their baby brother, Bub, are as perplexed as the cop who’s come all the way from Brisbane to investigate. What was Cam doing by the grave, and what was his Land Cruiser doing nine kilometers away, still fully stocked with supplies, with the keys left neatly on the front seat?" - Kirkus Review
posted by The corpse in the library on Dec 12, 2019 - 3 comments

Movie: The Nightingale

In 1825, Claire, a 21-year-old Irish convict, chases a British soldier through the rugged Tasmanian wilderness, bent on revenge for a terrible act of violence he committed against her family. She enlists the services of an Aboriginal tracker named Billy, who is also marked by trauma from his own violence-filled past. [more inside]
posted by doctornecessiter on Aug 19, 2019 - 4 comments

The Letdown: Season 2  Season 2, Ep 0

New mom Audrey continues in the pathos of early parenthood. Australian series on Netflix. [more inside]
posted by St. Peepsburg on Aug 9, 2019 - 4 comments

Movie: Walkabout

Two city-bred siblings are stranded in the Australian Outback, where they learn to survive with the aid of an Aboriginal boy on his "walkabout": a ritual separation from his tribe. [more inside]
posted by Fukiyama on Jun 19, 2019 - 1 comment

Book: Follow the Rabbit-Proof Fence

This extraordinary story of courage and faith is based on the actual experiences of three girls who fled from the repressive life of Moore River Native Settlement, following along the rabbit-proof fence back to their homelands. Assimilationist policy dictated that these girls be taken from their kin and their homes in order to be made white. [more inside]
posted by jacquilynne on May 1, 2019 - 5 comments

Bluey: "I am not 'Dad'. Magic Claw has no children; his days are free & easy."  Season 1, Ep 0

(Whole season) Not to be confused with the 1970s cop show of the same name (and later of 'Bargearse' infamy thanks to the D-Generation), Bluey is an Australian kid's cartoon that follows the adventures of the titular six-year-old Blue Heeler puppy, her dad, mum and four-year-old little sister, Bingo. With 21 million views since it launched in late 2018 on ABC's iView service (overseas viewers will want a VPN for the short seven minute episodes), Bluey has quickly become one of the most popular shows in Australian history. [more inside]
posted by MarchHare on Apr 11, 2019 - 1 comment

Tidelands: Home  Season 1, Ep 1

After a 10-year prison sentence, Calliope "Cat" McTeer returns home to Orphelin Bay, where her brother Augie is dealing with a fisherman's murder. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Dec 27, 2018 - 8 comments

No Activity (US or AUS)

Both versions are fantastic but Tim Meadows excels in the US version. The second US season just dropped. Any interest in a discussion or comparison of the two versions?
posted by jojo and the benjamins on Nov 28, 2018 - 1 comment

Podcast: Limetown: Bordeaux

+18 days 2 hrs since Lia Haddock's abduction. [more inside]
posted by Etrigan on Nov 13, 2018 - 3 comments

Movie: Cargo

CARGO is a post apocalyptic thriller and an emotional story of a father trying to save his child at all costs. [more inside]
posted by LizBoBiz on Jun 15, 2018 - 9 comments

Movie: The Last Wave

A Sydney lawyer defends five Aborigines in a ritualized taboo murder and in the process learns disturbing things about himself and premonitions. [more inside]
posted by MoonOrb on May 12, 2018 - 1 comment

Geo blocking and Australian streamers

Australia has two excellent free on-demand streaming services via the two government supported broadcasters, the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) and the Special Broadcasting Service (SBS). The ABC streaming service, iview.abc.net.au, is advertising-free and requires no login. The SBS service, SBS On Demand, contains ads and requires a login. Both of these services stream a lot of excellent domestic and international productions which I would like to bring to Fanfare attention, but I don't know if they are geoblocked to regular viewers outside of Australia. Are they?
posted by Thella on Jan 4, 2018 - 5 comments

Glitch: Season Two (All Episodes)  Season 2, Ep 0

The Australian Broadcasting Company/Netflix show returns for season two, delivering several answers to the ongoing mystery of how the "risen" might have returned from the dead, even as many more questions arise.
posted by DirtyOldTown on Dec 4, 2017 - 20 comments

Blindspot: Enemy Bag of Tricks  Season 3, Ep 2

Roman makes a new friend in Australia while the team follows his tip to a satellite heist.
posted by Small Dollar on Nov 4, 2017 - 2 comments

The Leftovers: The Most Powerful Man in the World (and His Identical Twin Brother)  Season 3, Ep 7

On a mission of mercy, Kevin assumes an alternate identity. Wherein we also learn the importance of secure two-factor authentication.

They're Kevins! Identical Kevins all the way. One pair of matching bookends, Different as night and day.—Patti
[more inside]
posted by Stanczyk on May 29, 2017 - 12 comments

Live Stream: Grand Final (2017 Eurovision Song Contest)

The 2017 Eurovision Song Contest Grand Final begins Saturday! May 13th! at 2100 CEST / 3:00pm Eastern! with results announced usually between 6-630pm Eastern! Can you tell I am excite! Most of the world can watch via the main Eurovision YouTube channel. Fans located in the US can tune their TVs to LOGO or computing devices to LogoTV.com, where the show will be co-hosted by Ross Mathews and Michelle Visage of "Rupaul's Drag Race" fame. Other options for following the action include accessing the main Eurovision stream on YouTube using a VPN, or using the delightfully Swedish feed from SVT (co-hosted, although probably in Swedish, by 2015 winner Måns Zelmerlöw). [more inside]
posted by zebra on May 12, 2017 - 577 comments

Live Stream: Semifinal 1 (2017 Eurovision Song Contest)

Live from Kyiv, Semifinal 1 begins Tuesday, May 9th, at 2100 CEST / 3:00pm EDT. Come on in for performance previews and conjecture about who's good, bad, and so-bad-it's-good. Viewers outside the US can watch via the main Eurovision YouTube channel. For fans located in the US: LOGO is broadcasting the Grand Final again this year (with Ross Mathews and Michelle Visage of Drag Race fame. Yay!) which means we get to deal with geoblocking again. (Boo.) Get a VPN with endpoints outside the US to access the stream YouTube, or try the Swedish broadcaster's high-quality (and usually commentary-free) live stream. [more inside]
posted by zebra on May 8, 2017 - 43 comments

The Leftovers: Don't Be Ridiculous  Season 3, Ep 2

Nora travels to St. Louis in her role as an investigator for the Department of Sudden Departure. [more inside]
posted by gladly on Apr 24, 2017 - 8 comments

Movie: Lion

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family. [more inside]
posted by anonymous on Jan 17, 2017 - 9 comments

Glitch: The Risen  Season 1, Ep 1

Sergeant Hayes is a seasoned police officer in the small town of Yoorana in Australia. When late one night he receives a report of a disturbance in the cemetery, he is bewildered to find six naked, filthy, disoriented people wandering the cemetery who don't remember what happened to them. [more inside]
posted by a strong female character on Oct 23, 2016 - 18 comments

Cleverman: Terra Nullius  Season 1, Ep 6

As the Containment Authority prepares to clear the city of Hairypeople, Koen must finally face his destiny as the Cleverman. (season finale)
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 9, 2016 - 1 comment

Cleverman: A Man of Vision  Season 1, Ep 5

Charlotte agrees to one last attempt at IVF at a clinic offering new technology; Slade offers Waruu a tempting deal. [more inside]
posted by oh yeah! on Jul 9, 2016 - 2 comments

The Strange Calls: First Call  Season 1, Ep 1

A young constable arrives to take the night shift in Coolum Beach, an ordinary Australian town . . . until the sun goes down. [more inside]
posted by fimbulvetr on Jun 17, 2016 - 5 comments

Cleverman: Containment  Season 1, Ep 2

Koen seeks answers regarding his strange new powers, so he heads into The Zone; Aunty Linda realizes there is a new Cleverman.
posted by divabat on Jun 10, 2016 - 5 comments

Live Stream: Grand Final (2016 Eurovision Song Contest)

EUROVISION DAY IS HERE! The 2016 Grand Final begins at 2100 CET / 3pm Eastern / 12pm Pacific. As before, the live stream will be available via the Eurovision website, the Swedish broadcaster, SVT, and for the first time, through the LOGO TV website. (Note to LOGO viewers: commentary will be provided by Carson Kressley and Michelle Collins.) Viewers located outside the US can also watch via YouTube. [more inside]
posted by zebra on May 14, 2016 - 428 comments

Live Stream: Semifinal 2 (2016 Eurovision Song Contest)

It's time for the next round of the 2016 Eurovision Song Contest! Semifinal 2 begins at 2100 CET / 3pm Eastern / 12pm Pacific. As before, the live stream will be available via the Eurovision website. Viewers located outside the US can also watch via YouTube. Thanks to LOGO TV's contract to broadcast Saturday's Grand Final, the semifinal rounds are not available to viewers in the US via YouTube, and the Eurovision.tv stream is relatively low quality. One freely available (no VPNs necessary!) and high-quality source is the Swedish broadcaster, SVT. This is probably the correct link for today's stream. In case it's not, check the SVT Play home page. [more inside]
posted by zebra on May 12, 2016 - 11 comments

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