In which I get all a bit hot under the collar about people who dismiss youth media (or any genre storytelling) because of their own prejudices about the intended audience. When we think of ‘ageism’, we generally think of a bias towards the young over the old. We see it everywhere as we are …
At no better time could this have landed in my inbox. YOU GIVE INTO DISTRACTION AS IF IT IS A MURDERER. YOU LAY THERE, WAITING TO BE KILLED. TODAY: FIGHT FOR YOUR LIFE. GOOD LUCK, MIRANDA This quote is getting printed out and blu-tacked to the wall. Thank you Miranda July. Photo via Daniel Boud.
Is it just me, or is everyone making a comedy webseries these days? I approve! The state of comedy on commercial television is fairly dire, with most Australian networks giving us few if any options for innovative scripted comedy on the actual box, despite the outstanding success of some in recent years. Thankfully we …
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In which I catch up with Australian author R.A. Spratt to talk about her new book Friday Barnes: Girl Detective, a witty, rollicking mystery featuring an enterprising eleven-year-old super sleuth. If you have anything vaguely to do with children in say, the 8 to 12 year-old age bracket, you may well already know R.A. Spratt as …
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Steen Raskopoulos is so hot right now. He seems to be everywhere on the Australian comedy scene at the moment. I’ve seen him in one of ABC’s recent Fresh Blood web comedies, he was in ABC2’s This is Littleton not too long ago (did anyone see that?), and he is constantly in my Facebook feed as …
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