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An Aussie Goes Calypso is an Australia
Australia
Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n reality television
Reality television
Reality television is a genre of television programming that presents purportedly unscripted dramatic or humorous situations, documents actual events, and usually features ordinary people instead of professional actors, sometimes in a contest or other situation where a prize is awarded...

 series which airs on the pay TV
Pay TV
Pay television, premium television, or premium channels refers to subscription-based television services, usually provided by both analog and digital cable and satellite, but also increasingly via digital terrestrial and internet television...

 channel FOX8
FOX8
Fox8 is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms...

. The series features Australian cricket
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of 11 players on an oval-shaped field, at the centre of which is a rectangular 22-yard long pitch. One team bats, trying to score as many runs as possible while the other team bowls and fields, trying to dismiss the batsmen and thus limit the...

 fan Gus Worland
Gus Worland
Gus Worland is an Australian television and radio personality. He is best known for his series of reality television programs An Aussie Goes Barmy, An Aussie Goes Bolly and An Aussie Goes Calypso which aired on Fox8....

 following the Australian cricket team during their 2008 tour of The West Indies.

The series is a sequel to Worland's previous series An Aussie Goes Barmy
An Aussie Goes Barmy
An Aussie Goes Barmy was an Australian reality television series which aired on the pay TV channel FOX8 in 2006. The series featured Australian cricket fan Gus Worland infiltrating the Barmy Army, an organised group of supporters of the England cricket team.The series was narrated by Hollywood...

and An Aussie Goes Bolly
An Aussie Goes Bolly
An Aussie Goes Bolly was an Australian reality television series which aired on the pay TV channel FOX8 in 2008. The six-part series featured Australian cricket fan Gus Worland following the Australian cricket team during their 2007 tour of India....

.

Its debut is on December 3, 2008.

Episode One:
Gus travels to Antigua
Antigua
Antigua , also known as Waladli, is an island in the West Indies, in the Leeward Islands in the Caribbean region, the main island of the country of Antigua and Barbuda. Antigua means "ancient" in Spanish and was named by Christopher Columbus after an icon in Seville Cathedral, Santa Maria de la...

 and is given a tour of the island by his hero, Sir Vivian Richards. Gus challenges Viv to an over of cricket and ends up bowling to the "Master Blaster". Gus is tonked with a lovely hook shot (showing Viv has still "got it." Viv's friend Andrew travels with Gus to the second test at the Viv Richards stadium and the pair witness Simon Katich and Michael Clarke score centuries against a floundering West Indian attack. (Andrew is a cricket tragic, just like K.C "The Fixer" from An Aussie Goes Bolly. Gus tries his hand at goat curry
Curry Goat
Curry goat is a dish originating in India and has become very popular in Indo-Jamaican cuisine. This dish has spread throughout the English speaking Caribbean and also the Caribbean diaspora in North America and Great Britain....

, a local dish and ends up trying pigs tail (another local dish) on the request of a fellow Australian fan. He catches up with Mitchell Johnson
Mitchell Johnson (cricketer)
Mitchell Guy Johnson is an Australian cricketer. He is a left-arm fast bowler and left-handed batsman. He was awarded the International Cricket Council's 2009 "Cricketer of the Year" award, the Sir Garfield Sobers Trophy.-Career:...

 and Stuart MacGill
Stuart MacGill
Stuart Charles Glyndwr MacGill is a former right-arm leg spin bowler of the Australian cricket team, with a domestic career at Western Australia, New South Wales, Nottinghamshire, Devon and Somerset...

 on the Antiguan beach. Gus tries his hand at cricket with local kids, and ends up getting bowled, second ball by a local youngster with a Lasith Malinga
Lasith Malinga
Separamadu Lasith Malinga is a Sri Lankan cricketer. He is a fast bowler with a rare round-arm action, sometimes referred to as a sling action, which leads to his nickname, "Slinga Malinga"...

like slinging action. Gus talks to Stuart McGill about his upcoming retirement.

Episode Two:
Gus Worland travels to Barbados with Andrew for the nest test. Gus tries goat curry (again) and gets chest pain during the test and experiences the anger of West Indian cricket fans.......
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