Anderson developed the show in earnest in , when a planned nine-month world tour of stand-up comedy venues was systematically felled by a global pandemic. He worked on the concept and the structure, while looking for someone to share the burden of hosting who could roll with the punchlines and also provide journalistic expertise. Fran, who got her start at SBS as a foreign correspondent, was the obvious choice.
In the initial workshops sample topics have included how many people were at anti-lockdown rallies, the online deception of astroturfing, the space race, COVID and the British royal family. Credit: SBS. The point of the show is all five of us are against misinformation. The show excavates the contentious and critical more than most panel shows, so the trade-off between laughs and illumination was up in the air.
They were still trialling, for example, whether it was better to tell the panellists what they were discussing in advance as some panel shows do or whether to surprise them at the taping. Anderson was not worried about the uncertainty, as the original The Gruen Transfer went through a similar process before debuting in Named for Victor Gruen, the Austrian-born architect who designed the first indoor climate-controlled shopping mall, the Gruen transfer occurs when people, entering a space designed to be visually disorientating, are confused into a state of unplanned consumption.
Their desire to purchase one thing, say, a birthday card, has been transferred, against their will, and in a deliberate, even predictable way onto a slew of entirely different items. An iced caramel mochaccino. A pair of trainers. A rubber Totoro smartphone cover. This massive structure patterned after the Galleria Vittoria Emanuele II , a sumptuous 19th-century proto-mall in Milan is presented in soaring, swooping shots, empty of kiosks, stores or branding.
Sweeping, aerial sections shot from drones achieve a disturbing sort of weightlessness: the vulnerable smallness of her figures, splayed on gilt floors or huddled on luxurious stairs, is painfully apparent. In one shot, the camera trails a father-son couple as if nipping at their ankles, then jerks upward at an awkward, neck-breaking angle.
It's a show that dissects what works and doesn't about ads. It also gives the inside scoop in industries, and some interesting numbers are given.
The show is generally funny, but the elitist host is very annoying. Details Edit. Release date May 28, Australia. ABC Australia. Technical specs Edit. Color Color. Related news. Aug 17 IF. Jul 30 IF. Contribute to this page Suggest an edit or add missing content. Top Gap.
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