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Sundance Goes Down Under for Kath
Australian hit comedy Kath & Kim will begin airing on the Sundance
Channel beginning in December '05.
Tuesday, May 3, 2005
By Lisa Johnson
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Sundance Channel has acquired U.S. pay television rights to three seasons of the Australian hit comedy Kath & Kim. The series was ABC TV's (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) most popular program in 2002, 2003 and 2004 and is considered to be the most successful Australian television comedy series ever.
Sundance Channel will premiere the third season in December 2005 and reprise seasons one and two in early 2006. The first two seasons of Kath & Kim have aired on Trio.
The series involves a reality-TV style camera following mother Kath and daughter Kim as they go about their lives in the fictitious Melbourne suburb of Fountain Lakes. Kath Day (Jane Turner) is a forty-something empty nester who enjoys keeping fit and spending time with her hot new husband Kel (Glenn Robbins). Her daughter Kim (Gina Riley) is a pouting princess whose glass of Chardonnay is always half empty rather than half full. She terrorizes her husband Brett (Peter Rowsthorn) and her second best friend Sharon (Magda Szubanski) with her delusions of grandeur. They are the suburban nightmare living the suburban dream.
Special celebrity guests featured in season three include Academy Award and Golden Globe winner Geoffrey Rush, Grammy Award winner Kylie Minogue and Golden Globe winner Rachel Griffiths.
Season three was created and written by Riley and Turner and directed by Ted Emery. Executive producers are Turner, Riley and Rick McKenna. Executive producer for ABC is Robyn Kershaw. Laura Waters is co-producer. Kath & Kim is produced by Australian Broadcasting Corporation and Riley Turner Productions.
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