What’s On Screen? ABC comedy comeback, footy wives get down and dirty, and latest flicks

This week the Screenhub Hivemind invites guest curator Anthony Morris to give us his rundown of what's on the small screen, the big screen, at film festivals and in podcasts.
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Image: Bondi Blackfella. The welcome return of the ABC’s Indigenous sketch series, Black Comedy. Source: ABC Publicity. 

The ABC is giving their Wednesday night comedy line-up a boost with the highly anticipated return of Shaun Micallef’s Mad as Hell (Wednesday 8.30pm). Was anyone else relieved that Mathias Cormann survived the recent Liberal Party ructions so his Mad as Hell underling / Arnold Schwarzenegger parody Darius Horsham could live on in this invaluable and topical news parody show?

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Anthony Morris
About the Author
Anthony Morris is a freelance film and television writer. He’s been a regular contributor to The Big Issue, Empire Magazine, Junkee, Broadsheet, The Wheeler Centre and Forte Magazine, where he’s currently the film editor. Other publications he’s contributed to include Vice, The Vine, Kill Your Darlings (where he was their online film columnist), The Lifted Brow, Urban Walkabout and Spook Magazine. He’s the co-author of hit romantic comedy novel The Hot Guy, and he’s also written some short stories he’d rather you didn’t mention. You can follow him on Twitter @morrbeat and read some of his reviews on the blog It’s Better in the Dark.