News satire. A half-hour weekly round-up, branding, inoculation and crutching of all the important news stories of the week. Along with a like-minded Think Tank of reporters and pundits, offering not only reportage and analysis of the week’s events but discussion, argument and dissection of what’s making the world turn every which way.
Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell (Season 8)
Episode 1 (Episode 1)
Air date: 2018-01-31
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A shot for shot remake of 'Hans Heiratete Einen Hummer'. This satire on Weimar steel manufacturing takes on new meaning with the director's decision to have the actors wink at the end of each line.
Episode 2 (Episode 2)
Air date: 2018-02-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: Franz Kafka and H.P Lovecraft team up to solve a small-town murder. Kafka is convinced the culprit is the banal inhumanity that lives in the heart of all relationships, but Lovecraft believes it's a giant octopus.
Episode 3 (Episode 3)
Air date: 2018-02-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A film maker explores the origins of the influential but little studied music group The Beatles. In a remarkable ending, it emerges one of them, Paul, is still playing music to packed arenas all over the world.
Episode 4 (Episode 4)
Air date: 2018-02-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A single unbroken shot of an orange rolling down the world's highest flight of steps at Mt. Niesen in Switzerland, set to the song 'Macho Man' by the Village People.
Episode 5 (Episode 5)
Air date: 2018-02-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: On the show tonight are our stories on the silencing of Abbott, Bernardi's tsking, Clive Palmer's big comeback announcement, the Queen's not coming back for the Commonwealth Games, and Barnaby, Barnaby, Barnaby.
Episode 6 (Episode 6)
Air date: 2018-03-07
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A successful, forty-something stock broker from Wollongong is coaxed into a penguin encounter which forces her to take personal inventory of her life.
Episode 7 (Episode 7)
Air date: 2018-03-14
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: When the evil wizard Cain O'Beans chases the tiny Frankfurt people out of their village, they tumble from their magical world into the city of Canberra. Featuring Russell Crowe as the voice of the Volcano.
Episode 8 (Episode 8)
Air date: 2018-03-21
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: An unhappily married ironmonger suspects his deceased postman has returned from the dead. However, after a quick phone call to the PMG, he learns he is mistaken.
Episode 9 (Episode 9)
Air date: 2018-03-28
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A documentary on 90-year-old Dagwood dog virtuoso Wayne Blacka (Francis Greenslade) and his relationship with his son and eventual heir, Bartholomew (also Francis Greenslade, but in a different wig).
Episode 10 (Episode 10)
Air date: 2018-04-04
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A decaf soy latte with magical powers costs only fifty cents more than a regular one. Directed by James Cameron.
Episode 11 (Episode 11)
Air date: 2018-04-11
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: When a man wakes up in the morning it starts a chain of events that leads to him going back to sleep at the end of the day. Stars Shane Crawford.
Episode 12 (Episode 12)
Air date: 2018-04-18
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: A car that talks gets laryngitis and learns what it's like to be a normal car. Stars Meryl Streep, Jo Silvagni.
Episode 13 (Episode 13)
Air date: 2018-04-25
Runtime: 30 min
Overview: In a glittering cavalcade of Busby Berkley style production numbers, Shaun and the gang pay tribute to the music of Peter Andre. With special guest Eddie Obeid.
