The Games
The Games Has Been an Australian mockumentary television Show on the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes every day, first in 1998 and the second in 2000.
'The Games' Star Red John Clarke and Bryan Dawe and actor Nicholas Bell and Australian comic Gina Riley. John Clarke and Ross Stevenson wrote it. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism at the movement ineptness from the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within the media and politics. An unusual characteristic of the show was that the characters shared the identical name because the celebrities who played with , to enhance the illusion of a film on the Sydney Games.
Released: 1998-08-07
Genre:
Comedy