After a 15-year absence, Russell Coight’s All Aussie Adventure is making a comeback to Australian TV.
Channel 10, in announcing its 2017 line-up, has revealed that Glenn Robins will be reviving his alter-ego Russell Coight, who was last seen on TV in 2002 (but still gets hits on YouTube).
The hilarious parody engaged audiences back then in either love or hate sessions, and judging by the response on social media since the new series news broke, the fans at least are excited.
For those of you who can’t quite remember Russell Coight (although for anyone watching TV back then he will be forever burned into memories), the show is a mockumentary style, sending up the shows we Aussies loved (to export) so much back in the day like The Leyland Brothers, The Bush Tucker Man and even Steve Irwin’s The Crocodile Hunter.
But bumbling, clumsy, unschooled-in-the-bush-or-anything-much Coight just had none of the bush finesse that made the serious shows above so popular overseas.
In other Channel 10 news doe next year, reality shows MasterChef, Australian Survivor, I’m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here, and The Bachelor and The Bachelorette Australia are all back.
Offspring fans have already gone nuts about season seven and the new show from this yeat, The Wrong Girl, is back with a second season.
In new offerings, Ten announced a “feel-good family drama” called Sisters featuring an ensemble cast including Barry Otto, Catherine McClements, Maria Angelico, Antonia Prebble, Remy Hii, Dan Spielman, Charlie Garber, Roy Billing, Zindzi Okenyo and Magda Szubanski.
Ten’s other big drama offering is Wake In Fright, a two-part adaptation of Kenneth Cook’s classic Australian novel of the same name.
The network has again joined forces with Foxtel to capitalise on the success reality show Gogglebox Australia (also renewed) with new show, Common Sense. According to news.com.au, it’s basically Gogglebox taken out of the loungeroom and into the workplace, featuring a regular cast of real people and their unfiltered opinions on the week’s most talked-about news topics as they chat with their workmates.
Michelle Bridges and Steve “Commando” Willis may have left The Biggest Loser family, but the weight loss show will also be back, called The Biggest Loser: Transformed and hosted by Fiona Falkiner with trainers Shannon Ponton and Libby Babet.
There are also several overseas dramas and comedies – look up This is Us and Man with a Plan – and a renewed commitment to covering cricket’s Big Bash.
But we’re just focused on Russell…
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