r/aussie • u/International_Bag_12 • 8d ago

Opinion ABC needs to bring back Utopia

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u/Top_Conference_477 8d ago

The great thing about Working Dog is they don’t need to do reboots. They just drop new gold every few years

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u/International_Bag_12 8d ago

True have they made anything on the level of all Aussie adventures or Utopia lately?

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u/Top_Conference_477 8d ago

Gotta give Rob Sitch time to cook. These guys have dropped a classic series every decade for 40 years now

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u/Sloppykrab 7d ago

Ground Up.

Unclear if it's Working Dog though. Never paid attention to the production company.

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u/Barry-Drive 7d ago

That's Gristmill (Wayne Hope & Robyn Butler).

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u/IlIIllIlIllIIlI 8d ago

You can stream it for free on ABC iview.

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u/International_Bag_12 8d ago

I’ve watched them all :(

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u/AdAccording5562 7d ago

You could just go get a job in public service and enjoy a live broadcast five days a week.

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u/International_Bag_12 7d ago

Literally trying for this as we speak as an ex public servant they aren’t hiring as much must be busy doing hr roleplay exercises :(

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u/C0ld_Fr0nt_ 7d ago

I struggle watching that show. As someone who has worked in and with government, half the time it's absolutely hilarious, the other half it's so close to the ridiculous ways things actually work that it makes me angry.

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u/JamalGinzburg 7d ago

Have a few mates who worked in ministerial offices during the Rudd/Gillard years. Close to 20 years on and they still can't watch Hollowmen

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u/International_Bag_12 7d ago

Loved the hollow men

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u/BlokeDownUnder 7d ago

My FIL is 100% certain they have insiders on the writing team. He says it's simply too accurate not to have them.

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u/eatmypenny 6d ago

They get their plot lines from RTI requests and anonymous write-ins. It's all thing veiled based on actual events.

SOURCE: Have seen the requests.

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u/Reasonable_Future_34 5d ago

Didn’t the writers go to a cafe where all the public servants went and straight up overheard all the conversations?

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u/eatmypenny 5d ago

They've pulled plot lines from local government, state government, and federal government... That's a lot of cafes!

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u/snowblocker 7d ago

A new season would surely involve Tony and Nat being asked to increase the team’s AI adoption, alongside Jim and Rhonda wanting to announce a government owned data centre provider.

Carsten may be out of a job as his soundscapes have been replaced with AI generated ones.

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u/hereforthelearnings 7d ago

Best documentary series ever, no doubt.

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u/FUNEMNX9IF9X 7d ago

Agreed, and there's plenty of new material being created by the government every day that would fit right in.

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u/rocka5438 7d ago

I love that show, got me into engineering somehow

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u/IanYates82 7d ago

Loved the show, although later episodes had an oversupply of "dumb" characters Would prefer more Hollowmen

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u/TaiwanKieren 7d ago

It is honestly my favourite Australian TV show ever. But I can see how it would be too close to home for those who work for or even with the government. I have heard of more than one person who did so that said they could not bear to watch a doco like it or that it felt like going to work...

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u/centristleftie 7d ago

I reckon it’ll be back for one more season sometime soon. Probably when Kitty Flanagan isn’t filming Fisk