Joe Hildebrand’s Australia: Mediocre and Proud receives Screen Australia funding
Joe Hildebrand will return to Australian TV screens in 2013 with a new factual series taking aim at Australia’s belief it is ‘the lucky country.”
The Daily Telegraph journo reunites with Cordell Jigsaw Zapruder, the team behind his previous series Dumb Drunk & Racist for a six part series to air on ABC2.
The series is one of 13 documentary projects announced to receive funding from Screen Australia. The $5m agency investment is expected to trigger nearly $15m worth of production.
Produced by Michael Cordell and Toni Malone, and directed by Ivan O’Mahoney, “The Daily Telegraph’s rebel-rousing columnist travels the lucky country, shattering our myths, bursting our bubbles and slaughtering some sacred Australian cows,” according to a press release.
‘Dumb, Drunk, Racist ‘ then ‘Mediocre and Proud’ – is this guy making a career out of shit-canning Australians?
Well, under the new laws proposed by the Labor-Greens before parliament, 23 million Australians will be allowed to sue Joe Hilderbrand for being “offended”.
Shockingly, the burden of proof is reversed – he’ll have to prove that he didn’t offend anyone.
Joe, you’re gonna need mighty deep pockets to get out of this one…
Mike, take a trip on Cityrail sometime and tell me that we’re not completely fine with institutionalised mediocrity. See also: Local/State/Federal parliament, Broadband speed.
Joe’s one of the wannabe ‘regime changers’ from the Murdoch media. Of course he’s out to make Australian’s feel disgruntled. That’s the only idea Tony Abbott has come up with, and Joe’s going to run with it.