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Tommy Little to host Whose Line is it Anyway? Australia

Comedy Channel details its new 10 part improvisation series coming later this year.

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Tommy Little will host Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia for The Comedy Channel.

The local version of the hit improvisation show will feature an ensemble of seven comprising both popular comedians and new faces.

Four of the cast will perform together in each episode.

Foxtel’s Head of Premium Entertainment, Graham Burrells said, “Whose Line Is It Anyway? has been a favourite on The Comedy Channel for many years and we are excited to do our own local version. The new show will be an energetic and unpredictable event with a fantastic cast of comedy heavyweights and new talent. It’s Whose Line but not as you’ve seen it before.”

Tommy Little said, “It’s an honour to be part of such an iconic show. I get to watch Australia’s best improvisers create magic and then take the piss if they stuff up, I can’t wait to get started.”

The ten part series will be filmed in front of a live audience in Melbourne, executive produced by Kevin Whyte, Guesswork Television, and Craig Campbell, +61 TV.

It will air in the second half of 2016.

Born in the late 1980s in the UK, Whose Line Is It Anyway? continued to grow in popularity and migrated to American television screens from 1998 evolving into the show currently airing in the US and on The Comedy Channel. Whose Line has been home to comedy’s most famous personalities including Stephen Fry, Drew Carey, Wayne Brady, Ryan Stiles, Colin Mochrie, Greg Proops, Aisha Tyler, and many more regulars and celebrity guest stars.

Melbourne-native Tommy Little is one of the most irresistible comedians of his generation delivering smart and engaging comedy capable of holding a room in the palm of his hand. After co-hosting the Breakfast Program on NOVA Melbourne for two years, Tommy is an increasingly recurring face on Australian television screens as fill in host on Network Ten’s The Project, host of Foxtel’s Melbourne Comedy Festival’s Big Three Oh! stand-up series, as well as appearances in Just for Laughs Australia, Dirty Laundry Live, Melbourne Comedy Festival Gala Specials, and many more.

9 Responses

  1. It will all hinge on the comedians. Although admittedly I still watched the US version even though Greg Poops was about as rude as you can get.

  2. We have so many talented Improv performers. I hope its not just name based and we get a bunch of great stand up comedians who have no idea about improv! Sussie Youssef, Steen Raskopoulas, Carlo Ritchie would be amazing. Youtube The Bear Pack.

    1. Not a fan of Ben Gerrard. From what I saw of him in that awful Comedy Channel show, every character he does is duck faced, but perhaps that was due to the poor writing and direction of that show.

      1. So that fact that every character Ben Gerrard does is duckfaced is due to the poor writing? Really? I reckon that might have a bit more to do with the direction and Ben’s own limitations as a performer than the scripts that are put before him.

    2. pretty much the entire ensemble cast from Thank God You’re Here can be inserted into this show. Ed Kavalee is the most well known one there.

      I am still a huge fan of the US version (with Drew Carey). I can watch all of its shows over and over, and still get a laugh out of it. It’s a classic.

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