![]() Putting big names into a shit show creates a shit show: putting unknowns into a great show makes them stars.īut we have to make do with what we have, which in the case of Squinters is solidly professional and occasionally amusing. It’s this grim fixation on the idea that the only possible thing audiences tune in for is personalities that gives us year after year of largely forgettable comedy from the National Broadcaster almost every memorable sitcom ever made turned its cast into much-loved personalities, not the other way around. … or, you know, you could come up with a sitcom based on an interesting idea, but the people who greenlight Australian comedy seem actively allergic to that kind of thing. ![]() Presumably Jacki Weaver, Sam Simmons and Tim Minchin weren’t able to return to Australia to film their parts, and they’re the kind of big names a sitcom about people sitting in cars needs to pull in the audience. It seems like the kind of idea a network would adopt largely because it’s cheap – even cheaper if, as with No Activity, they just give the cast rough outlines to improvise their dialogue from – and yet for some reason a chunk of this Sydney-set show was filmed in Los Angeles. So this is a sitcom about five batches of people who in the morning drive into work, and in the evening drive home again. Is it a new rule that one-fifth of all new ABC comedy must resemble Broad City? Don’t let them see The Good Place, the ABC’s output is hellish enough as it is. But Squinters goes one better than the usual rehashes and retreads: not only is it basically a remake of production company Jungle’s recent Stan series No Activity, but within the same format you’ll spot a number of popular comedy dynamics being dusted off and taken for a spin. A little bit of rain meant that some roads could be impassable for a couple of weeks.Australian comedy rarely rewards original ideas. Some rain hit the Corner Country a week and a half before departure date, and online you could see all the road department’s put maps up of almost all inland toad closures. Sticky, thick, globby mediums when a little moisture is applied. This phenomenon is fantastic for the environment, but maybe not so much when trying to traverse it, camp in it, or even simply, ride off the road to let a road train go past.īlack souls. But as I’ve learnt not long ago, is that a little bit of rain in the Outback, being so flat, will have now where to run off into and sit pooled for a long time. Now wet weather doesn’t particularly faze us any longer (baptism of fire for me and touring in bad weather conditions). There was many, many articles and announcements on the media about La Niña weather system being declared, and above average rains on the way. And even then, there were many things to consider, such as an upcoming operation for CC (possible clashing surgery and recovery dates), being on call for the start of the fire/back-burning season and now it was a question of whether to take the bikes or the car. The planning for this trip, was at a max, 3 weeks window. So without either really agreeing to ideas for the next trip it was decided for us. however, I pulled out before we got to the end of the unsealed roads due to a cracked airbox, & CC ended up getting stuck out in the outback due to. This time better prepared.īack in 2018 we did a bike trip to get to the desert. Having tasted what a little bit of outback has to offer I am more than keen to go back. I’m also still walking on cloud9, post Dino Trail trip. ![]() He was animated enough when telling the stories that I took notice. He told of stories of ponder water next to tracks, wild-flower fields having popped up of bursts of colour, and there not being too much roadkill. Due to water having recently come down in large patches inland, the land was alive. So with that in mind but the want to use my work leave wisely another trip was in the making.ĬC having recently come back from the bowels of this great brown land, he reported the opposite. No border opening without quarantine, travel bubble not big enough & just too much uncertainly. However, as it is now becoming all too common, it got “Covided-out”. Originally, the Queen’s birthday long weekend was meant to be a bike trip, half way into NSW to meet the Sydney/ NSW NR crew. So things haven’t gone according to this plan: Planning for the Annual Qld / NSW get together
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