After 30 years selling out stand up shows and making audiences laugh across Australia, Jimeoin is finally going to embark on a comedy tour his way…. by making it feel like a holiday with his friends and family.

In fact, you could say the idea for ‘WALTZING JIMEOIN’ came out of a ‘bugger that’ moment, and a snap decision by Jimeoin to tour on his own terms. A working holiday with the chance to see and truly experience Australia along the way. Throw in a Kombi and a bunch of his comedian mates including Akmal, Georgie Carroll, Dane Simpson, and Emma Zammit and you’ve got one epic, not to mention hilarious adventure.

The part road trip, part travel show, part comedy tour mash up does hit a snag early on when during his first night in the bush having struggled to put up the tent, Jimeoin has an epiphany that ‘roughing it’ may not actually be for him (all the time).

Jimeoin says “I’ve always loved the idea of camping. For a night here or there. Being on tour for 30 years has meant that I’ve seen many hotels, B&B’s and many many couches – so I’m not precious about where I lay my head. But it’s nice to holiday in those eco tents or the cabins with a view by the water and do a sunset, outdoors show. Might do this forever.”

From Sydney to the Whitsundays, park to park, WALTZING JIMEOIN is the most fun road trip you’ll ever take. Visiting incredible Australian landmarks, hearing the fascinating stories of fellow holiday-makers he meets and join them front row beside the BBQ as Jimeoin strolls from his tent, cabin, or caravan to deliver the side-splitting laughs he’s famous for!

Says Jimeoin – “I just love Australia – exploring the east coast is a holiday that’s so idyllic – your kids can’t really ruin it, no matter how hard they try.”

WALTZING JIMEOIN is the debut television series for the newly created ‘Humerus, which combines the talent and expertise of award-winning Producer Josh Butt and comedy industry veteran, Artie Laing CEO of A List Entertainment .

Says Executive Producer/Series Producer Artie Laing, “We’re really excited about the future of comedy TV in Australia. Our program slate is led by comedians and having managed comedians for 30 years, and still going, we want to create more opportunities for Aussie comics to succeed on TV.”

Says Executive Producer/Series Producer Josh Butt, “It’s a privilege that our first production is with Jimeoin, as he tours Australia doing comedy — he’s a hilarious and insightful comedy legend, and the comedians he travels with are equally as funny.”

“In a year that’s all about the great Aussie road trip, it’s a symbiotic and natural fit to partner with Australia’s largest regional accommodation group G’Day Parks.”

WALTZING JIMEOIN (8×25 minute series) will premiere to television audiences on Network 10 (and TenPlay), 4pm Sunday August 29th 2021.
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ABOUT HARROW SEASON 3
Our lovable, irritating, smart and flawed renegade pathologist Dr Daniel Harrow returns for a third season. After 20 episodes, many viewers thought they knew all there was to know about our conflicted, eponymous protagonist, a man at once morally upright with his own unshakeable code of conduct, yet who can also be secretive, sly, and has already killed twice.

But there is much more to discover – truths and half-truths that will pull our feelings one way then another as Harrow himself learns more about his family… and himself. In the end, of course, he will remain the maverick we love, but one with even more layers which we peel away week-by-week as he and the QIFM team solve intriguing episodic mysteries. There is one big question that kickstarts Season 3: Is that really Harrow’s son lying dead in his own morgue?

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & HEAD WRITER – STEPHEN M. IRWIN
Stephen is a screenwriter and novelist. His acclaimed supernatural novels The Dead Path and The Broken Ones were published internationally and are both in the process of adaptation to the screen. Stephen was creator and writer of Australian crime drama series Secrets & Lies (made originally for Network Ten and remade in the USA for ABC). He wrote the feature Australia Day (Foxtel), miniseries Wake in Fright (NetworkTen), was head writer on Tidelands (Netflix), and is co-creator and head writer of forensic crime drama Harrow which is now filming its third season.

CO-EXECUTIVE PRODUCER & HEAD WRITER – LEIGH McGRATH
Leigh McGrath is an AACTA nominated Producer and Writer who co-created Harrow with Stephen M Irwin, along with the hit Netflix series, Tidelands. Before this, Leigh produced the crime thriller Secrets & Lies for Network Ten; The Strange Calls for ABC2; and the feature film Australia Day, starring Bryan Brown. He also produced Athelstan’s Journal based on the hit US drama series Vikings. Leigh has worked extensively internationally, where he wrote and script produced drama series in Europe and the UK, including ITV’s long-running police drama series The Bill. He also worked for the BBC on variety of drama productions, including The Lost Christmas with Eddie Izzard, M.I. High, Roy and Me & My Monsters. Before this, Leigh was a scriptwriter and script producer on numerous Australian drama series including Home & Away, Out of the Blue and Winners & Losers.

In Conversation with Leigh McGrath and Stephen M Irwin
13 February 2020
GOMA, Brisbane
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Developed closely with the artist, the QAGOMA exhibition features more than 200 works and is organised around three ideas – ‘Man and machine’, ‘The extra-ordinary’, and ‘Psychic Aches’. Moving between the porous divide of the body and the world it inhabits, the exhibition explores the subjects of industry and organic phenomena; representations of inner conflict; and the possibility of finding a deeper reality in our experience of the everyday.

Screenings
A complete retrospective of Lynch’s films, videos and works for television are presented as part of the exhibition in the Gallery’s Australian Cinémathèque. View all screenings.

Special events
A full program of special events including musical performances and celebrations of the anniversary of television series Twin Peaks 1990–91, will be announced shortly. QAGOMA eNews subscribers will be among first to know – subscribe here

Publication
David Lynch: Between Two Worlds includes over 200 images illustrating Lynch’s wide-ranging oeuvre — drawing, painting, printmaking, photography, mixed media, film and video — and an engaging interview with the artist, conducted by exhibition curator José Da Silva, Senior Curator, Australian Cinémathèque RRP $39.95. Available to pre-order online.

David Lynch: In Conversation
QAGOMA in association with QPAC presents ‘David Lynch: In Conversation’ on Saturday 14 March 2015. In this exclusive to Brisbane event with special guests, David will share insight into his life, his work and his many passions – painting, film, music and meditation.

David Lynch: Between Two Worlds
14 March – 7 June 2015
Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA)
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Many are the times that he drops into story development mode by using the montage approach with a driving or reflective song playing over the top. He also has a penchant for using established songs covered by new artists and this gives some very familiar songs a new lease on life.

The current season in America (which is season’s ahead of what Australian free to air television is currently broadcasting) sees Sutter delivering some of his best dialogue ever and the songs in the current season have really added to the emotional impact. Sutter’s wife Katey Segal (Gemma Teller on the show) has also been featured and her voice has a very soulful lived-in quality that well suits the song selection.

This collection, which is now up to Volume three, features the most emotionally resonant songs of the series and the highlights are many. Leonard Cohen’s Come Healing, Noah Gundersen and house band, The Forest Rangers take on the Rolling Stones’ classic As Tears Go By and Segal’s take on Jackson Browne’s For A Dancer are particularly satisfying.

Having seen all of the current episodes of SOA is not a prerequisite for enjoying this collection of songs as they easily stand on their own. However for fans of the show, this soundtrack will bring back some great memories and ignite a desire to go back and revisit the show’s most emotionally vivid moments.

Rob Hudson
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