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form y separately published work icon The Games : Series II series - publisher   film/TV   humour   satire  
Issue Details: First known date: 2000... 2000 The Games : Series II
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A irreverent comedy drama series that takes the form of a pseudo-documentary series, The Games sees a film crew given carte blanche access to the fictional managing body of the Sydney Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (SOCOG). The cameras are therefore present at meetings, briefings, site inspections, and press conferences.

Season One is set early on in the lead up to the Sydney Olympics. The ABC then scheduled Season Two so that the thirteen episodes ran until the week before the opening of the Olympics on 15 September 2000. As outrageous as many of the storylines were, they were allegedly nothing compared to the real-life SOCOG.

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form y separately published work icon Solar Ross Stevenson , John Clarke , Australia : Beyond Productions ABC Television , 2000 6036827 2000 single work film/TV

'Head of Administration and Logistics, John Clarke, and his colleagues, Bryan Dawe, Head of Accounts, Budgeting and Finance, and Gina Riley, Marketing and Liaison Manager, are sizzling in the heat of the final countdown to the Opening Ceremony. As the Games draw closer, the Games team try to devise ways of supplementing their dwindling revenue.'

Source: Australian Television Information Archive. (Sighted: 11/6/2013)

Australia : Beyond Productions ABC Television , 2000

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Form: screenplay
    • Sydney, New South Wales,: ABC Books , 2001 .
      Alternative title: The Games : Series II - Sharing the Blame
      Extent: 274p.p.
      Description: illus.
      ISBN: 0733309593 (v.2)

Works about this Work

John Clarke : The Man, the Mask and the Problem of Acting Anne Pender , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Comedy Studies , vol. 10 no. 1 2019; (p. 8-20)

'John Clarke delighted audiences with his satire for many years.He was both a writer and an actor, but in many ways, particularly in his early years, he was a reluctant actor. This article examines the development of Clarke’s unique approach to performing and his solution to the problem of establishing a direct connection with an audience. It explores Clarke’s development as a performer and writer from his beginnings in university revue in New Zealand in the 1960s, his association with Barry Humphries and others in London during the early 1970s, and his work in Australia from 1977 until his death in 2017. This article charts Clarke’s distinctive contribution to Australian comic drama as writer and performer in The Games (1998–2000) and in Clarke and Dawe (1989–2017). Drawing on numerous interviews the author conducted with Clarke between 2008 and 2017, it also investigates the unique ways in which Clarke prepared for comic performance, and his approach to collaboration with other writers and performers on scripts for television and in film.'

Source: Abstract.

Inspiration or Plagiarism? Michael Idato , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 March 2011; (p. 2)
Michael Idato reports on suggestions that BBC Television produced the mockumentary Twenty Twelve without the 'participation or permission' of the authors of the Australian Olympic Games-inspired satire, The Games.
BBC Imitation No Flattery: Clarke Karl Quinn , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 16 March 2011; (p. 8)
BBC Imitation No Flattery: Clarke Karl Quinn , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Age , 16 March 2011; (p. 8)
Inspiration or Plagiarism? Michael Idato , 2011 single work column
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 21 March 2011; (p. 2)
Michael Idato reports on suggestions that BBC Television produced the mockumentary Twenty Twelve without the 'participation or permission' of the authors of the Australian Olympic Games-inspired satire, The Games.
John Clarke : The Man, the Mask and the Problem of Acting Anne Pender , 2019 single work criticism
— Appears in: Comedy Studies , vol. 10 no. 1 2019; (p. 8-20)

'John Clarke delighted audiences with his satire for many years.He was both a writer and an actor, but in many ways, particularly in his early years, he was a reluctant actor. This article examines the development of Clarke’s unique approach to performing and his solution to the problem of establishing a direct connection with an audience. It explores Clarke’s development as a performer and writer from his beginnings in university revue in New Zealand in the 1960s, his association with Barry Humphries and others in London during the early 1970s, and his work in Australia from 1977 until his death in 2017. This article charts Clarke’s distinctive contribution to Australian comic drama as writer and performer in The Games (1998–2000) and in Clarke and Dawe (1989–2017). Drawing on numerous interviews the author conducted with Clarke between 2008 and 2017, it also investigates the unique ways in which Clarke prepared for comic performance, and his approach to collaboration with other writers and performers on scripts for television and in film.'

Source: Abstract.

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