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Subject: Kath and Kim Series 3

The ladies of Fountain Lakes are back. Tonight, October 7, an all new
episode of Kath and Kim will screen on ABC TV at 8.30 p.m. Kath & Kim
series 3 sees Australia's favourite hornbags continue along life s many
unexplored nooks and crannies.

Episode One, Series 3, "Cactus Hour".
Like her wine time nuts, Kath s feelings are mixed at this late stage
when her first husband and Kim s dad Gary Grace Poole arrives back to stake
his claim.

Kel is hamstrung as Gary has Kath over a barrel . Kim is loving herself
sick as a new mum. She is blown away at how gross Epponnee s motor skills
are.

Ditto Brett.

By Scott Ellis
October 6, 2004
The Sun-Herald

Look at them: Australia's most popular television characters head
into a third season of suburban mayhem and mangled language.

They're national icons, the kind of woman every man would love to
know and every woman would love to be, but don't bother asking Kath
and Kim why Australia has become so fascinated with their lives.

With the third season of their show about to hit the ABC, the two
suburban princesses are too busy sniping away at each other to
figure out just how they've become successful.

"Well, we are fascinating," said Kim, her nasal whine even more
pronounced over the telephone from their Fountain Lakes home.

"But really I think it's a reflection on television as a whole, that
people are fascinated with us."

"Especially," added Kath, "since now people have the plasmas, they
get a bigger and a clearer look at us and that's got to be good."

"Although I find my nose and my tummy look bigger when I turn around
on a plasma screen. I'm all squashed or something," Kim said, before
she's once more cut off by her mum: "Well, you are a big girl Kimmy,
you know that."

"Muuuuuuum!"

Whatever the reason, Kath and Kim have undoubtedly become two of the
most successful characters in Australian television history, with
both seasons winning Logies for the most outstanding comedy; season
one took three AFI awards plus two gongs at the Australian Comedy
Awards.

The series two finale attracted 2.2 million viewers, making it the
highest-rating Australian comedy since 1995 (the show was Just
Kidding) and, so far, the series has been sold to 10 overseas
countries.

Just last week the BBC announced they would start broadcasting Kath
And Kim on free-to-air TV in Britain next year - the series had only
been on pay TV prior to this.

Which is all good news for fans of the pair, who are now virtually
guaranteed this season will not be the last.

And just what do the mother and daughter have in store for us this
year? More of the same glamour, they promise, with the bonus that
this time around there's an extra place set at the table, for Kim's
newly arrived baby Epponnee-Rae.

"I've already got her in some baby bumsters and kitten-heel booties
and she looks great," Kim said.

" She's got a little Mary-Kate and Ashley bandana which does slip
down over her eyes, but I've said to her, 'Beauty knows no pain,
Epponnee. You'll just have to be blind'."

"And I've got her a beautiful tapestry waistcoat with shoulder pads
and some really tight stretch-denim capri pants," Kath said.

As for the challenges of motherhood, Kim has that worked out
too. "Brett's pretty good there because he's used to getting up
every four hours to feed me," Kim said. "And then Sharon's good; she
takes her to Jimbaroo. She's good, she makes me look great in
comparison."

"Well, you know what they say," Kath jumped in. "A useful mother
makes a useless child and that's what I did do with Kim, so
hopefully Epponnee-Rae will be fine.

"Kimmy's a lazy mother, but she's proud and she's pushy. So it bodes
well for Epponnee's future, she will be over-curriculumised, that's
for sure. After school she'll be going to ballet and that Kumon
school. . . or is it kudos?"

Which leaves the pair free, as usual, to continue their unique life
together, where the love is well hidden behind almost constant
argument.

Could it be, perchance, that Kath is jealous of new-mum Kim being
the centre of attention?

"Oh, totally!" Kim said. "Nail on the head there! She is totally
jealous of my long hairs, wherever they may be, my curvy figure and
my husband."

" Curvy?" Kath broke in. "We're talking Michelin Man!"

"See?" said Kim. "See what I have to put up with?"

The Sun-Herald

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Kath & Kim go glam
From Sydney Confidential
September 27, 2004


THE ABC's Kath and Kim seems set to develop a Friends-like
reputation for celebrity cameo appearances.

'Look at moy' ... Kath and Kim in the kitchen.

Six Feet Under star Rachel Griffiths and Australian Idol host Mark
Holden have both filmed parts for the second series which returns on
October 7.

This is on the back of the much-hyped episode that will feature
Kylie Minogue some time during the season.

The ABC refuses to reveal which episode or anything about Minogue's
role.

But the Griffiths and Holden moments sound like a hoot.

Griffiths' spot was filmed at the races, where she's approached by a
drunk Kath, while Holden appears as a judge on Bub's Idol.

Kim's child Eponnee Ray is entered in the competition because Kim is
convinced she can hear "Delta Goodrem in her squarks".

The Daily Telegraph

http://realfooty.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/25/1095961915714.html



A great mark by Ten

By Michael Shmith
View on the box
September 26, 2004

Listen. When it comes down to the wire, when you're up against the coalface
and not forgetting the long bombs, reinforced positives and fresh legs, the
most important thing is to follow that ball and never lose sight of it.

I refer, naturally, to the dominating factor of yesterday's grand final
broadcast: the grey-shaded Ten logo.

While networks of lesser numerical value display their watermarks at the
bottom of frame, Ten's all-too-obvious ovoid remains wedged in the top right
corner of the screen, as immovable and as irritating as a dead blowfly
caught by its wings on a window ledge.

The logo is really a ghost-ball - maybe, if one can be philosophical for a
moment, the symbol of all those lost opportunities of grand finals past: on
millions of televisions yesterday afternoon, the MCG was the Tomb of the
Lost Football. At other times, particularly when a head of equal size bobbed
up alongside, the logo became a speech balloon (why did everyone say "Ten"?)

At other times, though, the screen was occupied by enough amazing sights to
guarantee at least partial distraction from Ten's sitting tenant.

For example, Guy Sebastian's rendition of Waltzing Matilda (an ever-upward
surge of harmonies and broken words "Ma-ah-TILL-da ") was itself outdone by
the spectacle of his oversize green-checked shirt, whose tubular cuffs and
expanse of front made it look as if he was singing with his hands and head
stuck through a garden trellis.

Very soon, the horticulture was replaced by a series of commercials,
including, for neither the first nor the last time, a cartoon duck spruiking
rubber goods - or was it John Howard's erasable face in that election ad?
Same rubbery figure. Other ads - for fast cars on otherwise unoccupied
roads, rum, beer, computer games - and aggressive promos for macho series
that only partially assuaged feelings that football is not entirely a
women's game.

Then, after David Hobson crooned The Impossible Dream, accompanied only by a
phalanx of female choristers whose choreography was restricted to swaying
from the ankles up and waving their hands, on came *****Kath and Kim, who
sang, danced, wobbled and opened their vowels (VOWELS, OK? PLEASE!) - a lot
of effort to little effect. This, I thought, could only be followed by 10
tenors singing Up There, Cazaly! I was out by one: unless the 11th tenor was
the watermark. One of them, by the way, looked suspiciously like David Brent
from The Office, realising his wildest dream.

"The Port Adelaide way is to win!" thundered an evangelical voice-over, as
if anything less was heretical. Soon, came the reassuring news: "It isn't
about individuals, it's about a team."

Yes, but the only problem was that one team was (give or take a few pages of
the Melway) from West Melbourne, the other from North Melbourne. Any initial
feelings that Paw Tada Laid and the Brzbn Loins might have been understudies
for indisposed Victorian teams - we can't take them seriously, can we? -
quickly gave way to a match of astonishing skill and constant suspense: that
is, once the players managed to distinguish between boxing and Australian
Rules .

By the final quarter, sun almost off the ground, shadows and Leigh Matthews'
moustache lengthening in equal proportion, Brisbane was certainly in the
shade: gone from history-makers to "It could be the end of an era". Port
Adelaide was "glorious", "triumphant".

"What a day of vindication and entertainment," said Tim Lane, right both
times. As was the commentary in general, which avoided - almost - platitudes
and the bleedingly obvious, and gave us passion and information.

Sometimes, though, comments were superfluous.

In the dying minutes, when Mark Williams left the coach's box (during the
early stages, he tried to strangle, then bludgeon, his phone) to be with his
players in the open air, his sense of victory was hotter than a two-bar
radiator.

"For us, it's 'you beaudy'!" he said later on.

These were the only appropriate words. Even the logo was superfluous.

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http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/09/20/1095651246912.html


Hornbags set for unsuspecting British


By Angela O'Connor
September 21, 2004

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"Hornbag" Kim (Gina Riley) and Kath (Jane Turner).

Something may be lost in translation, but Brits in much larger numbers will
soon "Look at moiye! Look at moiye!" when the hit sitcom Kath and Kim airs
in prime time on BBC2.

It has been so successful on cable TV that the BBC has deemed the first
series worth running this northern winter.

What the broader audience will make of the show's mockery and satire will
depend on their ability to interpret the tortured English of the
aspirational suburban mother and daughter.

They will understand it is satire, said media lecturer John Schwartz who
teaches popular culture at Swinburne University.

Its impact will be different from that of the reality series Sylvania
Waters, which perturbed foreign audiences trying to grasp how Australians
live.

"Kath and Kim is a particular kind of Australian humour and the show takes
it to the edge," Mr Schwartz said. "Some of it will be lost in translation."

The creators, writers and actors Gina Riley and Jane Turner, deserve all the
recognition they can get, he said.

"BBC2 is the best spot (for Kath and Kim), the way the ABC was the best spot
for it here, rather than the commercial outlets in Britain. You're going to
have an audience that's more used to watching those sorts of satirical
references," he said.

It was a good deal for everyone, said the ABC content sales manager,
Augustus Dulgaro, with the money it makes going back to ABC television drama
production. Translating the humour and language presented different problems
for different audiences, he said. Finland, for example, needed help with a
translation for "hornbag".

The third series is due to start in Australia on October 7.

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/08/12/1092102567725.html


Kath and Kim


Reviewer Debi Enker
August 12, 2004



Gina Riley, left, and Jane Turner, Fountain Gate's two best-known residents

Kath & Kim (repeats)
ABC, 8.30PM Thursday

What's in store for the best-known residents of Fountain Gate? How will the
sulky, selfish and thoroughly self-absorbed Kim Craig, nee Day (Gina Riley),
cope with motherhood? History suggests her loving and long-suffering husband
Brett (Peter Rowsthorn) could be a doting dad to little Epponey Rae, and
that his wife is likely to take to her bed and loudly demand room service.
That's if Brett is persuaded that he is, in fact, the baby girl's father.

History also suggests that new nanna Kath Day-Knight (Jane Turner) and her
hubby Kel (Glenn Robbins) will take to grandparenthood with their customary
gusto and treat it as an exciting new task to be efficiently managed. It's
conceivable that they will launch head-on into a tightly scheduled regimen
of nappy-changing, feeding, bottle washing, babysitting and baby-gym play
activities.

Any support functions that they're unable to provide will, of course, be
taken up by Kim's loyal and endlessly accommodating second-best friend,
Sharon (Magda Szubanski). But other issues remain since the end of last
year's second season of this much-loved Australian comedy.

How will Kath cope with the shock return of her former spouse (Mick Molloy)?
Is he planning to hang around? And if he does, how will his continued
presence affect her marriage to her adored "hunk 'o' spunk"? Will Sharon
find true love with her fiddle player, or anyone else? Can she survive a
single episode without sustaining some sort of injury? Will Kim ever say a
kind word to her second-best friend? Should Kel invent a gourmet sausage to
commemorate the arrival of the new baby? And can a single room in Kath's
house possibly be big enough to store all of Kel's man-bags and bomber
jackets?

As these questions might play on the minds of Kath & Kim fans, Turner, Riley
and Co are hard at work shooting the eagerly awaited third season of the
show, which will screen later in the year on the ABC. And just to whet our
appetites, Aunty is re-running the second series, starting tonight with a
pair of episodes that demonstrate just why so many people have taken this
knowing suburban comedy to their hearts.

In The Announcement, the "foxy lady" is lamenting the fact that her libido
has gone AWOL following that unfortunate accident involving a horse and the
Cinderella-style pumpkin coach at her wedding. Kath has no desire for Kel
and even his performance of "the thinking man's foreplay", i.e. stacking the
dishwasher, fails to excite.

Meanwhile, Kim has decided it's time to "fall", and is doing what she must
in order to conceive. The second episode, Inside Out, finds two households
experiencing domestic disharmony. Kel is so efficient that Kath is left with
none of the little daily tasks she relishes: collecting the dry-cleaning,
returning the rubbish bins to their bays, defrosting the lasagne for dinner.

Here is a life partner who is so well-organised, he even stacks cooking
utensils alphabetically in an designated kitchen drawer, with all handles
facing out, of course. Kel is such a master of household organisation that
poor Kath feels her life has no meaning. Even her big-surprise attempt at
the new Donna Hay Chinese feast degustation menu falls foul of his Iain
Hewitson cod recipe.

Meanwhile, after being unduly influenced by an episode of Changing Rooms,
Brett has unwisely said the "R" word to his delighted Kim. They are to
renovate their marital unit and everyone is thrilled by the prospect.

Amid discussions about the benefits of Santa Fe-style over period, the
delights of shabby chic bathrooms, the best shade for the vestibule and the
actual colour that constitutes eggplant, Kim manages to harass, bully,
blackmail and terrorise poor Brett, who's quite accustomed to such
treatment. There are tears.

There are tantrums. There's also an appearance from those fabulous shop
ladies, Prue and Trude. This is almost as much fun as the episode where Kath
and Kel discover that they can have a mighty fine holiday without actually
leaving the airport terminal.

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=14362



Brits to catch Kath and Kim again

17:42 AEST Thu Aug 12 2004

Brits who missed out on catching Kath and Kim on pay TV will get a second
bite of the cherry with the BBC acquiring the rights to the popular
Australian comedy.

Kath and Kim went to air in the UK in April, making its debut on pay
television channel LivingTV.

Kath Day-Knight and her daughter Kim caught the attention of the BBC and
will air on the network's free-to-air channel BBC2 from September as part of
its autumn line-up.

"It is a big, broad comedy and it is different," BBC's head of comedy
entertainment Jon Plowman said in Sydney.

"Comedy continually has to find new jokes, find new characters and funny
settings, find new things to say and therefore I think Kath and Kim will do
well because it is not like anything else we are making at the moment."

He said that if Australians got the jokes on British comedies such as Ab Fab
and Mr Bean, Brits would surely take to the hit Australian program by
creators and co-stars Jane Turner and Gina Riley.





"I have the faith that if people are prepared and happy to watch Dead
Ringers in Australia, the British public would be happy to watch Kath and
Kim in the UK," he said.

"The audience aren't stupid. They know that they are watching something that
doesn't stem entirely from their culture."

Riley and Turner are currently working on the show's third series in
Melbourne.

The first two series have been picked up in the US and sold to Ireland and
Finland. Other European sales are believed to be in the pipeline.

Meanwhile, Plowman will also be executive producer on English comedy writers
Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant's next project.

The comedic duo, who picked up two Golden Globe awards in the US for their
hit comedy The Office, are currently writing a series based on the
behind-the-scenes life of acting extras.

Gervais will star in the show - which has been given a working title of
Extras - and is believed to have signed on Hollywood actors Jude Law and Ben
Stiller to make special appearances.

"It is very early days because we don't make it until next year," Plowman
said.

"The problem will be that The Office is going to be a really hard act to
follow but I think they are making all the right decisions."




CAAP 2004

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,00.html



Kylie a star turned spruiker
She's a natural on stage with a microphone, but Kylie was flogging lingerie
this time around, not singing 30jul04.

(Melbourne Australia): CITY restaurant Syracuse was transformed into a
French boudoir for the long-awaited appearance of pop and fashion princess
Kylie Minogue yesterday.

And appear she did out of nowhere, catching the gathered gaggle of
fashionistas completely by surprise as they lunched on champers and oysters
at the Love Kylie launch.

Minogue burst out from behind a velvet curtain, mike in hand to introduce
her new lingerie range.

"I feel like I'm doing an infomercial," she joked.

And while some eyes (particularly of the male variety) trailed the lingerie
models as they paraded around the room, many were sneaking a peek at La
Minogue's left hand -- and no, we can safely report there was no ring.

Beau Olivier Martinez did not accompany her on her short visit to Melbourne
(he's in Europe, she says).

Dressed in an immaculate suit, the petite singer happily posed for photos
and chatted to media.

"It's great (to be back in Melbourne)," she said.

"I think after six days I've finally figured out how to stay warm. I wasn't
prepared for this. I've had a really flying visit. It's been wonderful
seeing my family.

"I've done a couple of other things as well and this is one of the exciting
elements of my trip home and I'm off tomorrow (Friday)."



*****Minogue also spoke about her experience on the set of Kath & Kim this
week.

"It was wonderful, amazing," she beamed. "I'm not sure I'm allowed to say
too much about that yet.
Suffice to say they are extremely talented and so lovable.

"They made my experience just nothing but fun.

"There was a lot of laughs. They couldn't have made . . . me feel more
welcome."*****



You heard (about Kylie being a guest) on the set of Kath & Kim here first
"probably" guys!

Kind Regards
Karen Wilson

Hi all,
I hope none of  you were caught out last night! Kath And Kim is now
airing at 10pm on Monday nights on RTE Network 2.

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Trio adds gay programming block


  17:03 BST, Friday 23rd July 2004 -- by James Welsh
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As MTV readies LOGO for launch, NBC Universal-owned Trio has announced that
it plans to add a weekly gay programming block to its schedule.

The OUTzone will launch on Saturday, September 18. Accompanying a Dame Edna
marathon will be season two of Kath & Kim, along with various films,
documentaries and music specials.

"Trio has always been drawn to the cutting edge of culture and the
kitschy-cool sensibility that is so associated with the gay community.
OUTzone creates a regular viewing experience where our viewers can go to
find both overtly gay programming and programming that has captured the
imagination of gay audiences," explained Trio president Lauren Zalaznick.

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Kath and Kim go global


July 26, 2004










One of Australia's favourite comedies has made the leap abroad. Felicity
Collins and Sue Turnbull examine how the show pushes the boundaries of
global humour.

Not since Bazza McKenzie arrived in London in 1972 and Crocodile Dundee
tamed the New York subway in 1986 has the spirit of Australian satire been
so warmly welcomed abroad. The launch of the popular ABC comedy series Kath
& Kim on cable television in the UK and US earlier this year met with
critical acclaim, generating a cult following as well as improving
Australia's image abroad.

In London for the launch at Australia House, the show's foxy lady, Kath
(Jane Turner), and her clackymuled, hornbag daughter, Kim (Gina Riley),
enjoyed a celebrity moment of their own when they were mobbed by fans
outside their hotel. Expatriate pundit Kathy Lette, taking to her role as
cultural translator with aplomb, declared, "When people talk about Australia
all they think of is John Howard - he's like human musak, isn't he? And that
is our image at the moment, so Kath and Kim are like a comedic, incendiary
device - I mean they have black belts in tongue-fu those girls."


Across the Atlantic, Time Out's New York reviewer Elizabeth Vincentelli
praised the two Melbourne writer-comedians' "delight in manhandling the
Australian language" in "suburban accents so thick that 'hi' comes out as
hoi, please as ploise". To help New Yorkers translate the show's suburban
tongue-fu, Vincentelli included a guide to Aussie slang.

But despite the show's warm reception by English and American reviewers,
Kath & Kim has been restricted to cable-TV in the UK and US because it is
"too Australian" for the parochial gatekeepers of free-to-air television in
those countries.

At the 2002 MIPCOM television fair, Robyn Kershaw, executive producer of
Kath & Kim , was told by an English program buyer that British audiences
"simply wouldn't get the references".

Kershaw's response, that "Australian audiences have no trouble getting the
references in Ali G", fell on deaf ears. Happy with endless episodes of
Neighbours and Home and Away, Britain's free-to-air television has no
pressing need to get its head around the pop vernacular of an innovative
Australian comedy series.

But how can a local series, fine-tuned to imported fads, fail to ring a bell
with UK and US buyers? Kath & Kim's satirical eye on lower middleclass
suburbia ("crack open the Tia Maria" and bring on the "commemorative
sausages") has the capacity to provoke a familiar cringe from
class-conscious Britain. And Kath's embrace of American fitness fads, from
pump and pilates to the Courtney Loves Cox O-zone Diet, would hardly be lost
in translation in New York.

It is precisely the show's focus on the minutiae of suburban life centred on
the Fountain Gate shopping mall that rings a bell with international
television audiences. Like Kath and Kim this audience was born to shop,
spurred on by reality TV's instant makeovers, whether of the block, the
backyard, the straight guy or the imperfect body.

The reality TV format, grafted onto the flagging fortunes of the sitcom,
helps to usher the show into the international sphere.

British academic Brett Mills, along with other critics, routinely includes
Kath & Kim in the pantheon of the new global sitcom. This genre is defined
by Mills as "the mockumentary sitcom filmed without a laugh track", where
the characters know they are being watched but don't realise that the
audience finds them uncomfortably funny. (Others of that ilk include the
British series The Office, Marion and Geoff and People Like Us, and the
American series Curb Your Enthusiasm and The Larry Sanders Show. )

The irony of Kath & Kim's global appeal might be that its vacuumsealed,
shopping-mall world, its aspirational mindset, and popular online lexicon
reflect a new hybrid mentality. Kath & Kim is both parochial and
cosmopolitan. This hybrid mindset lampoons Kylie and Danni in the Sport
episode, outs kd, Martina and Ellen in the Gay episode, and workshops Nicole
and Tom's marriage problems in the Fat episode, without ever leaving the
suburban confines of Fountain Lake.

In the Money episode, Kath rings a radio show desperate to win the quiz to
pay for her Cinderella wedding coach. True to her shopping-mall roots, Kath
is up to speed on Minnie Driver, Monica Lewinsky and Sharon Stone but the
name of the Prime Minister of Australia? "I'll have to pass on that one."

Yet the series does offer a glimpse of a world beyond the shopping mall. Kel
the butcher enjoyed his stint in the homosocial whirlpool of the navy and is
comfortable carrying a man-bag and crooning along to Barbra Streisand.
Sporty Sharon ends the first series returning from Bali with a grotesque
monkey bite disfiguring her face, putting Szubanski ahead of Roseanne Barr,
Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Joanna Lumley and Two Fat Ladies in the
line-up for television's most unruly woman.

Mills argues that American and British television have defined the sitcom
for 70 years, with little competition from elsewhere. By contrast Australian
television has been a minor player. Hey Dad and the British re-make of the
ABC's series Mother and Son were memorable reversals of the steady flow of
sitcoms from British and American networks to Australian screens.

Since In Melbourne Tonight and The Mavis Bramston Show set the tone for
Australian television comedy in the 1950s and '60s, the nation's appetite
for local, irreverent humour has been fed by variety shows and sketch
comedy.

Turner and Riley initially developed their characters, Kath and Kim (and
their snobbish alter egos, Prue and Trude), in the sketch comedy series Big
Girls Blouse. Predating the global sitcom, the show's distinctive comic
accent owes much to Turner and Riley's 20-year working relationship with
co-stars, Magda Szubanski (Kim's second-best friend, Sharon Strezlecki) and
Glenn Robbins (Kath's great hunk-of-spunk, Kel Knight).

Kath & Kim's entry into the new global sitcom's hall of fame also stems from
what Kershaw refers to as the show's clever conceit: "Two women, clearly the
same age, playing mother and daughter in a comedy of suburban aspiration,
shot in a mockdocumentary style."

Rather than label it as "too Australian" for the international market, it
might be more accurate to say that it breaks out of the comfortzone of ocker
comedy, embodied and exported so successfully by Bazza McKenzie and
Crocodile Dundee.

Kath and Kim, together with Kel and Sharon, perform a double act, lampooning
Australia's insular suburban mentality while pushing the boundaries of the
global sitcom. Australian audiences appreciate the double act and they get
the joke. How far and wide the joke will travel, as Kath might say, is a
matter of making a little "brazzu" go a long way in a world market requiring
a lot of "huffypuffy" to last the distance.

Felicity Collins and Sue Turnbull are senior lecturers in the School of
Communication and Critical Enquiry at La Trobe University.
A new series of Kath & Kim will screen later this year.

KATH & KIM SPEAK

I have iss-ewes at the mow-ment ploi-se.
(I have issues at the moment please.)

Fice pearl
(Face peel)

I want it done toot sweet ploi-se Kim.
(I want it done toute suite please Kim.)

Ra-vol-ting
(Revolting)

At this lay-te stay-ge
(At this late stage)

That's ny-ioce, that's different, that's un-ewes-yewl.
(That's nice, that's different, that's unusual.)

Hoi (Hi)

Boy (Bye)

Har! Haor yur?
(Hi! How are you?)

Grayshsh! (Great)

Brazing (Browsing)

Noorrsa (Noosa)

Rart (Right)

Tarred (Tired)

And who could forget this one:
Look at moiye, look at moiye, Kimmoiye, look at moiye ploi-se.
(Look at me, look at me, Kimmy, look at me please.)

Source: www.abc.net.au/kathandkim/

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2979938a5620,00.html

Foxy ladies Kath and Kim have moved out of their comfort zone of the suburb
of Fountain Gate. Dressed from head to toe in fashions which scream "look at
moi", the girls hit the Aussie Moonee Valley races to film a new episode of
their hit TV show.

The terrible twosome have become international darlings now that their show
has been picked up by Channel Four in the UK and on cable in America.

The upcoming third series of Kath And Kim about "two suburban nightmares
living the suburban dream" is being produced for the first time by stars
Jane Turner and Gina Reilley's own production company rather than the ABC in
Australia.

No doubt the day-at-the-races episode will see the duo "casting nasturtiums"
and having a punt in an attempt to become "effluent".

Look at moiye I'm an idol

Reporter: Kathryn Roberts

Monday, 5 July  2004





Kim shows her t-bar

She says for her next performance she'll turn the g-string inside out!
Eeww..




Kath mid performance

Kath toting rubber glove as she performs Lady Bump



No room for shrinking violets.

As a second series of that television show which makes idols of mere mortals
begins later this month, it's guaranteed that plenty of Australians will be
queuing in capital cities for their 15 minutes of fame and a shot at a
major- label record deal.

And while the humble talent quest has been around for centuries, shows like
this have re-energised them.

In the central Burnett town of Monto, a Bush Idol contest has attracted
poets, country music wannabes and Shania Twain teens who are all eager to
win $500 and a chance to strut their stuff at the Monto Dairy Festival
dinner.

Proving that bad taste is the new black, Monto's Kath and Kim wowed the
crowd and won Bush Idol with their rollicking version of the real Kath and
Kim's Lady Bump.

Melissa Hill (Kath) and Kim Blacklock (Kim) have been polishing their
performance ever since watching the Logies earlier in the year.

"I saw the song when I was watching the Logies and thought it would be
perfect. My daughter's a huge fan of Kath and Kim because her name's Luka
Mae so whenever they say look at moiye, she thinks they're saying Luka Mae,"
Kath says.

Kitted out in full costume including Kath's spiral perm and Kim's tasteful
t-bar, the duo confess their excitement at winning.

"I'm so glad we won tonight because Bretty would have been gropable if I had
have gone home and said we got nothing," Kim says.

Kath adds, "I'm going to slip over to that bar and get either a flirtini or
a glass of cardonnay".

While Kim thinks that Las Vegas is just gagging for these talented
chanteuses, Kath says 'making it' is appearing on Bert Newton or at the
Rooty Hill RSL.

But foremost for Monto's Kath and Kim is the Dairy Festival dinner, and the
big question remains about how they will jazz up their performance for the
expectant crowd.

"I'll have to get a different coloured g-string," Kim says.

".or maybe I'll just turn it inside out and get two wears out of it."

See, bad taste really is the new black.



Online story by Jess Daly






Last Updated: 5/07/2004 3:08:00 PM AEST

Hey everyone,

Just joined the group. I'm in Liverpool but first got into Kath &
Kim while I was living in Melbourne a while back. Wandered around
Fountain Gate shopping centre on more than one occasion (yep, it is
called that).
Loved the show then, and love it more now. Think I'm in danger of
wearing out the DVD's!

Great to see a UK group dedicated to the show (although I cant read
any of the other messages for some reason!)

Here's to series 3!

Phil

Sorry, I posted that Kath & Kim was on Friday nights. I got it wrong.

It doesn't start on LivingTV until Thursday 8th April at 10:30pm.

They don't have a site for it yet, but when they do I'll post the link.

Happy Easter :)

Karen

p.s I'm going to New York next Friday so I'll write when I get back.

Hi Look at Moiyers!



Kath & Kim starts Friday 26th March on Living TV Sky Channel 112 at 2100.



It's hilarious (think it is series one).



Karen

Hi Lookatmoiyers!

I have noticed that FTN are again showing repeat episodes from both
series on Sunday nights between approx 7:30pm, 8pm or 9pm? If you
missed any episdoes remember Sunday evenings.

The big news is that Kath & Kim are going to also be shown on
LivingTV coming very soon, they are already advertising its release
but no release date yet. Will let you know when I know. Their
tagline in the advertisement says "Australia's answer to the
Office". I don't know about that, but it sure is funny, in its own
way.

I've got some Kath and Kim wallpapers I'll be putting up in the
photos section on the weekend so make sure you check them out next
time.

If you have any images of Kath & Kim you'd like to see up in the
photo section please email them to me and I'll put them up.

The big news from downunder is that there is possibly going to be a
big screen movie of Kath and Kath in 2004 but this has not been
confirmed, I don't know 100% if it will happen or even if it'll be
released in 2004 in the UK. When I know I'll let you know but that's
definately something to look forward to.

In case you were wondering how Kath & Kim came about you might want
to find on video or dvd a series called Big Girls Blouse as Kath,
Kim and Sharon initally started in short comedy segments in this
comedy/variety show and it became so popular that they made it
completely series 1 and 2 of Kath & Kim characters. Most of the cast
met at NIDA or college (NIDA is the National Institute of Dramatic
Art) in Australia. They have been long term friends for many years.
Other friends in the circle who have appeared in more than one show
with Kath & Kim crew are of couse Glenn Robbins (Kel) and Peter
Rowsthorn (Brett) as well as Marg Downey (she married Kath & Kel)
and also appeared naked in Kath & Kim when Kel & Kath needed some
counselling - I think this is when Kath lost her sex drive.

Anyway must dash but will keep you all up to date.

Kind Regards
Karen

Hi,
It's about time we brits got our own K and K club. Well done.
^..^

Hello

Does anyone have any video recordings of Fast Forward or Full Frontal
We did get fast forward over here on BBC2 at about 4am did anybody
watch it??? I think the BBC had more than one series as well!

I would love to see some of them I taped over mine years ago in a
moment of stupidity.

I would trade or pay!

I have a dvd of Big Girls Blouse the entire series which is hilarious

Take care all

Chris

Hello there

Does anybody have series two of Kath and Kim on DVD

Has anybody also heard of the show Big Girls Blouse and Fast Forward
and Full Frontal.These also star Gina Riley Jane Turner and Magda as
well as Marg Downey?

Chris