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All Together Now

All Together Now

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Review

Perhaps one of the lowest points of Australian TV comedy in many years, this show somehow found enough viewers to carry it through three seasons of no laughs. The premise didn’t stink, but the writing sure as hell did. Aging rock star Bobby Rivers (real life aging Australian rock star John English) finds out he has two teenage kids when their mother dies in a plane crash. He invites the kids and their nanny to move into his place, only for them to find that he’s stuck in a world of psychedelic prints, flared pants, and bad hair. In itself, that should give up a lot of opportunities for laughs, but the writers of this show were outranked in lack of talent only by the terrible actors. Steven Jacobs, playing son Thomas, was perhaps the worst of the bunch, yet the network persisted in putting him into ‘comedy’ shows for years after this one had died, bouncing him from one failure to another, including the woeful Just Kidding!, and an even more woeful remake of Blankety Blanks. The only shining light in All Together Now was the gorgeous smile and talented acting ability of Rebecca Gibney, as nanny Tracy. Why she stayed in this mess is beyond me, and how the supremely untalented Gary Who (playing Doug, Bobby’s dumb best friend) managed to stick it out so long without being fired is also a constant source of amazement. If there was one decent laugh in this entire show, I (and just about everyone I know) missed it. Hopefully Australian comedy has climbed out of the All Together Now hole and resurrected itself in the decade since.