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Best Television Comedy Series
or Best Television Comedy or Light Entertainment Series
Subcategory of Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Awards
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History

For the 2013 awards Comedy and Light Entertainment were combined.

Notes

  • Inaugurated in 2011 and first presented in 2012 (for the 2011 award year).

Latest Winners / Recipients

Year: 2021

winner form y separately published work icon Fisk Kitty Flanagan , Penny Flanagan , ( dir. Kitty Flanagan et. al. )agent Australia : Porchlight Films , 2021 20613221 2021 series - publisher film/TV humour

'Flanagan stars as Helen Tudor-Fisk, a contract lawyer who is forced to take a job at a shabby suburban law firm specialising in wills and probate.'

Source: Inside Film (https://www.if.com.au/kitty-flanagans-fisk-kicks-off-for-the-abc/) (Sighted: 29/10/2020).

Year: 2020

winner form y separately published work icon Upright Chris Taylor , Tim Minchin , Kate Mulvany , Leon Ford , ( dir. Matt Saville ) Australia : Lingo Pictures , 2019 14352882 2019 series - publisher film/TV

Series one:

'Lucky Flynn (Minchin) hasn’t spoken to his family in years. He’s broke, distant and damaged. He’s also a gifted pianist, whose talent for music is matched only by his talent for self-destruction. When he learns that his mother has only days left to live, Lucky sets off in a hire car to drive the 4000 kilometres from Sydney to Perth to say goodbye to her, taking with him his only cherished possession in the world – a battered and scarred upright piano. But what should have been a straightforward drive across the Nullarbor soon becomes a test of Lucky’s emotional fitness, when he (quite literally) runs into Meg (Milly Alcock), a hilarious, tough-as-nails teenager, who we soon discover has plenty of scars and secrets of her own.'

Source: Screen Australia.


Series two:

'Trading the desert for the steamy tropics of Far North Queensland, Lucky and Meg hit the road - and the river - on a mission to find Meg's mum. Trouble is, Meg's mum has disappeared into the rainforest.'

Source: Screen Australia.

Year: 2019

winner form y separately published work icon The Letdown Sarah Scheller , Alison Bell , ( dir. Trent O'Donnell ) Sydney : Giant Dwarf , 2017- 13572486 2017 series - publisher film/TV humour A new mother deals with an offbeat mothers' group.

Year: 2018

winner form y separately published work icon The Letdown Sarah Scheller , Alison Bell , ( dir. Trent O'Donnell ) Sydney : Giant Dwarf , 2017- 13572486 2017 series - publisher film/TV humour A new mother deals with an offbeat mothers' group.

Year: 2017

winner form y separately published work icon Utopia Tom Gleisner , Rob Sitch , Santo Cilauro , ( dir. Rob Sitch ) Australia : Working Dog Productions , 2014-2019 6911824 2014 series - publisher film/TV

A comedy series set inside the offices of the Nation Building Authority, a new government office for overseeing major infrastructure projects.

For a list of episodes, see Film Details.

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