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SBS on Demand: Educators

Improvised comedy centres around inept teachers at a NZ high school.

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NZ improvised comedy Educators (Season One and Two) begins this week at SBS on Demand.

Created by Jesse Griffin, Jackie van Beek, Jonny Brugh, the cast also includes Rick Donald.

It screened across the ditch in 2019 and 2020.

Educators is a cleverly crafted improvised comedy series featuring some of New Zealand’s most well-known comedians. The series focuses on the teachers of an ordinary suburban high school.

The problem with these teachers is that they are all hopelessly inept. They have no grasp of the curriculum, no knowledge of how to follow a timetable, and no idea whether the tasks they set for the students should even be assessed or not.

Issues like parental conflict, exam pressure, turning up late, and exhaustion, are continually stressing them out much more than their pupils do. These dysfunctional educators are childishly trying to survive the day until the bell rings.

Thursday, 10 February on SBS On Demand.

Language, Adult Themes

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  1. Just watched the first 2 episodes…so wrong but so so funny
    Where has this one been hiding??
    I think I will be binging both series in the next couple of days

  2. There was another NZ high school show titled Seven Periods with Mr Gormsby from 2005 that was good enough to be picked up by ABC. Not sure if I’d be of the viewing demographic now, but maybe Educators might follow in its footsteps.

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