Very Small Business (TV series)
Encyclopedia
Very Small Business is an Australia
n television
comedy
series first broadcast on Wednesday 3 September 2008 on ABC1
. The series is written by Wayne Hope
, Gary McCaffrie
, and Robyn Butler
, and produced by Hope and Butler. It comprises of six half-hour episodes.
, as his senior journalist and sole employee.
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 television
Television
Television is a telecommunication medium for transmitting and receiving moving images that can be monochrome or colored, with accompanying sound...
comedy
Comedy
Comedy , as a popular meaning, is any humorous discourse or work generally intended to amuse by creating laughter, especially in television, film, and stand-up comedy. This must be carefully distinguished from its academic definition, namely the comic theatre, whose Western origins are found in...
series first broadcast on Wednesday 3 September 2008 on ABC1
ABC1
ABC1 was a United Kingdom based television channel from Disney using the branding of the Disney owned American network, ABC.The channel initially launched exclusively on the British digital terrestrial television platform Freeview on 27 September 2004. On 10 December 2004 it was launched on...
. The series is written by Wayne Hope
Wayne Hope
Wayne Hope is an Australian actor, writer, director, and producer. He is married to comedienne and actress Robyn Butler. Together they run the production company Gristmill. He is mainly known for his comedic roles in television and film.-Television:...
, Gary McCaffrie
Gary McCaffrie
Gary McCaffrie is an Australian television comedy writer and producer, best known for his work on Fast Forward and Full Frontal, and his many collaborations with comedian Shaun Micallef...
, and Robyn Butler
Robyn Butler
Robyn Butler is an Australian writer, actor and producer who is best known for her starring role in the television comedy series The Librarians. Butler hosted a radio program called Tough Love on the Triple M network...
, and produced by Hope and Butler. It comprises of six half-hour episodes.
Synopsis
Don Angel is the small business owner of the Worldwide Business Group, a business he's trying to grow. This business includes publishing of dubious niche magazines such as Feelin' Great, Railway Union Monthly and Music, Music, Music, Music - mere vehicles used by smooth-talking Don to sell advertising space to unsuspecting businesses. He’s just hired Ray Leonard, a down-and-out former journalist for The AustralianThe Australian
The Australian is a broadsheet newspaper published in Australia from Monday to Saturday each week since 14 July 1964. The editor in chief is Chris Mitchell, the editor is Clive Mathieson and the 'editor-at-large' is Paul Kelly....
, as his senior journalist and sole employee.
Cast
- Wayne HopeWayne HopeWayne Hope is an Australian actor, writer, director, and producer. He is married to comedienne and actress Robyn Butler. Together they run the production company Gristmill. He is mainly known for his comedic roles in television and film.-Television:...
as Don Angel/Marcus Goode/James White/Haydn King/Kerry Akermanis/Pete Mandela) - Kym GyngellKym GyngellKym Gyngell is an Australian AFI award winning comedian and film, television and stage actor...
as Ray Leonard Leonard/Harvey Bunning - Emma LeonardEmma Leonard- Filmography :- External links :...
as Leslie - Queenie van de ZandtQueenie van de ZandtQueenie van de Zandt is an Australian theatre actress, singer, comedienne and writer.-Biography:Born in Canberra to Dutch immigrants, van de Zandt attended St. Matthews Primary School and St Francis Xavier High School before graduating in the top 2% of her state at Daramalan College...
as Tina - Geoff Paine as Lloyd
- Sally Cooper as Janet Wilson
- Marg DowneyMarg Downey-Career:Downey first rose to prominence in the sketch comedy program The D-Generation on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation in the late 1980s. She subsequently appeared in later sketch comedy series with other members of The D-Generation, including Fast Forward, Full Frontal and Something Stupid...
as Yvonne - Steve MouzakisSteve MouzakisSteve Mouzakis is an Australian actor who has had numerous television and film roles. He is best known for his roles as Theo Kallergis in Blue Heelers, Paolo in The Secret Life of Us and Rolf in Very Small Business.-External links:...
as Rolf - Brian VriendsBrian VriendsBrian Vriends is an Australian actor most known for his work as Ben Markham on All Saints, an Australian hospital drama. Vriends married co-actor in All Saints Libby Tanner and they have a daughter. Vriends and Tanner have since separated....
as Jerome - Jeremy KewleyJeremy KewleyJeremy Leo Kewley is an Australian actor, based in Melbourne, who made his professional acting debut at the age of 14 in the feature film The Devil's Playground .-Early life:...
as Ron Grealy - Katerina KotsonisKaterina KotsonisKaterina Kotsonis is an Australian stage actress, also known for her role as Mrs Papasavas in the children's television series Short Cuts.-Stage:...
as Blanca - Ian BlissIan BlissIan Bliss is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Bane in The Matrix Reloaded and The Matrix Revolutions, for which he was chosen by the Wachowski Brothers because of his accurate impersonation of Hugo Weaving , and also his partial resemblance to Weaving...
as Tony Orsini
Episodes
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See also
- List of Australian television series
- List of Australian Broadcasting Corporation programs
- The LibrariansThe Librarians (TV series)The Librarians is an Australian television comedy series which premiered on 31 October 2007 on ABC TV. In Ireland the show airs on RTÉ Two. The series is produced and written by Robyn Butler and Wayne Hope who are also the principal cast members. Hope is also the series' director. The first...