Lost Tapes Reveal Television’s Best Kept Secret
Lost tapes reveal a groundbreaking Australian television show.
Melbourne, Australia, May 15, 2013 --(PR.com)-- What does the producer of Who wants to be a Millionaire have in common with the director of Dancing with the Stars, the storyliner for Neighbours, the editor of the multi-award winning Bondi Rescue, a Foxtel group programming director, a presenter for Seven News, and an executive producer for Germany’s Deutsche Welle? These are some of the industry’s leading practitioners and they were all trained and got their start as volunteers on a little live TV show on Australian community television called Darren & Brose, hosted by Darren Chau and Brose Avard. Despite having no budget, this pioneering program became Channel 31’s highest rating show, and was the very first live, daily program in the history of Australian community television.
As tapes of these live shows were believed to not exist and the fact that the program ended just prior to the rise and domination of You Tube, there has been no public record of this groundbreaking television show since it went off air … until now. Recently a box of digital tapes was found in the garage belonging to the parent of a technically savvy former crewmember, who recorded most of the shows ... but just forgot to tell anyone.
Over the coming months these tapes will be released online for free via YouTube and www.darrenandbrose.com from May 23, so that what was once narrowcast on Channel 31 Melbourne and Geelong can now be available worldwide. The tapes are not only a record of the early work of some of the industry’s top professionals, but also reveal a innovative, funny and highly entertaining comedy variety program featuring sketches, pranks, animation, talent competitions, music parodies of everyone from the Beatles and Rolling Stones to Bon Jovi and Kiss, film parodies of Star Wars through to Mission Impossible, and special guests including Australian entertainment icon Bert Newton, Kath & Kim’s Glenn Robbins, Neighbour’s Ian Smith, Dynasty’s Kerry Armstrong, Seinfeld’s Kenny Kramer, documentary maker John Safran, filmmaker Santo Cilauro, 5 time Olympian and basketball legend Andrew Gaze and international comedians Dave Hughes, Wil Anderson, Sarah Kendall, Todd Barry (US), and Rob Rouse (UK).
There are dozens of jaw dropping, sidesplitting moments from this revolutionary show that pushed the envelope. There’s the time Darren & Brose crashed a 1500-seat event and arrested innocent people for crimes against fashion. There’s the time Kerry Armstrong spontaneously stuck her tongue in Darren’s ear. There’s Santo Cilauro revealing a film idea he came up with that nearly got him disowned by his producing partners. There’s Ian Smith’s bold assessments on many of his former Neighbour’s co-stars including Kylie Minogue.
And there’s the time Glenn Robbins revealed that he … "masturbated a lot."
The La Trobe Media Group was formed out of La Trobe University by writer/performers Darren and Brose (Darren Chau and Brose Avard). Despite no budget, the group produced 100 episodes of the self-titled Darren & Brose - a live to air, comedy variety television program which also featured outside broadcasts as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival.
In addition to producing television shows and training university students in television production, the La Trobe Media Group were actively engaged with the community running educational and training seminars for hundreds of high schools, as well as donating many hours to initiatives such as La Trobe Lifeskills for people with disabilities.
The Darren & Brose lost tapes will be released over the coming months commencing Thursday May 23 at
www.darrenandbrose.com and www.youtube.com/user/darrenandbrose
"Very funny boys...so refreshing!" Bert Newton, Australian entertainment icon
"I love them...I love what they do!" Kerry Armstrong, AFI and Logie award winning actor.
"Very funny … the next big thing" The Age.
"They're geniuses...one day they'll pick up that Gold Logie!" the late Stan Zemanek
For further information please contact:
Brose Avard and Darren Chau – darrenandbrose@yahoo.com.au
As tapes of these live shows were believed to not exist and the fact that the program ended just prior to the rise and domination of You Tube, there has been no public record of this groundbreaking television show since it went off air … until now. Recently a box of digital tapes was found in the garage belonging to the parent of a technically savvy former crewmember, who recorded most of the shows ... but just forgot to tell anyone.
Over the coming months these tapes will be released online for free via YouTube and www.darrenandbrose.com from May 23, so that what was once narrowcast on Channel 31 Melbourne and Geelong can now be available worldwide. The tapes are not only a record of the early work of some of the industry’s top professionals, but also reveal a innovative, funny and highly entertaining comedy variety program featuring sketches, pranks, animation, talent competitions, music parodies of everyone from the Beatles and Rolling Stones to Bon Jovi and Kiss, film parodies of Star Wars through to Mission Impossible, and special guests including Australian entertainment icon Bert Newton, Kath & Kim’s Glenn Robbins, Neighbour’s Ian Smith, Dynasty’s Kerry Armstrong, Seinfeld’s Kenny Kramer, documentary maker John Safran, filmmaker Santo Cilauro, 5 time Olympian and basketball legend Andrew Gaze and international comedians Dave Hughes, Wil Anderson, Sarah Kendall, Todd Barry (US), and Rob Rouse (UK).
There are dozens of jaw dropping, sidesplitting moments from this revolutionary show that pushed the envelope. There’s the time Darren & Brose crashed a 1500-seat event and arrested innocent people for crimes against fashion. There’s the time Kerry Armstrong spontaneously stuck her tongue in Darren’s ear. There’s Santo Cilauro revealing a film idea he came up with that nearly got him disowned by his producing partners. There’s Ian Smith’s bold assessments on many of his former Neighbour’s co-stars including Kylie Minogue.
And there’s the time Glenn Robbins revealed that he … "masturbated a lot."
The La Trobe Media Group was formed out of La Trobe University by writer/performers Darren and Brose (Darren Chau and Brose Avard). Despite no budget, the group produced 100 episodes of the self-titled Darren & Brose - a live to air, comedy variety television program which also featured outside broadcasts as part of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Melbourne Fringe Festival.
In addition to producing television shows and training university students in television production, the La Trobe Media Group were actively engaged with the community running educational and training seminars for hundreds of high schools, as well as donating many hours to initiatives such as La Trobe Lifeskills for people with disabilities.
The Darren & Brose lost tapes will be released over the coming months commencing Thursday May 23 at
www.darrenandbrose.com and www.youtube.com/user/darrenandbrose
"Very funny boys...so refreshing!" Bert Newton, Australian entertainment icon
"I love them...I love what they do!" Kerry Armstrong, AFI and Logie award winning actor.
"Very funny … the next big thing" The Age.
"They're geniuses...one day they'll pick up that Gold Logie!" the late Stan Zemanek
For further information please contact:
Brose Avard and Darren Chau – darrenandbrose@yahoo.com.au
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