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'Don Angel (Wayne Hope) is a small-business man - the backbone of this great country's economy. But if that's true, it's no thanks to him. After numerous unsuccessful business ventures, Don's World Wide Business Group is now hurtling towards liquidation.
'To give the impression of a much grander business than what he's got, Don sells the advertising space in his five magazines under different aliases. He can sell the ads, he just can't write the articles. So he hires Ray Leonard (Kim Gyngell) as his sole journalist.
'Taking his first tentative steps back into the workplace after a six-year battle with depression, Ray enters a world totally alien to him. He's come from being a noted social commentator for the Australian to writing advertorial for 'Wilson's Woodwind and Brass' Autumn Sale - which might just be his cure.
'But Don's debts are mounting - he has the bank on his back and a posse of disgruntled small businesses at his door. His wife has left him, and not only does she want to take him for all she can she also expects him to actually spend time with his two kids. To make matters worse, he's just been diagnosed with a nasty case of Irritable Bowel Syndrome, which it seems no medication can cure. '
Source : ABC1 website, http://www.abc.net.au/
Sighted: 01/09/2008
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First screened on ABC1 in six weekly instalments from 3 September to 8 October 2008.
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D.I.Y. Television
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Burned by a Sorry Saga
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 September 2008; (p. 12)
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[Review] Very Small Business
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single work
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— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 August 2008; (p. 46)
— Review of Very Small Business 2008 single work film/TV -
Sneers Before Bedtime as Humour Takes a Dive
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30-31 August 2008; (p. 34)
— Review of Very Small Business 2008 single work film/TV
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Sneers Before Bedtime as Humour Takes a Dive
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 30-31 August 2008; (p. 34)
— Review of Very Small Business 2008 single work film/TV -
[Review] Very Small Business
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sunday Age , 31 August 2008; (p. 46)
— Review of Very Small Business 2008 single work film/TV -
Burned by a Sorry Saga
2008
single work
review
— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 6-7 September 2008; (p. 12)
— Review of Very Small Business 2008 single work film/TV -
D.I.Y. Television
2008
single work
column
— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 28 September 2008; (p. 8)
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