Lowdown( 2010)

TV-MAComedy

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Overview

Lowdown shines a torch on the life of a man whose job it is to feed the public's insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip. Alex Burchill, the author of the Lowdown column which appears in the once great but now ailing tabloid newspaper – the Sunday Sun. Each week Alex interviews celebrities for his column, and each week at least one of those celebrities ruins his week. Sometimes the celebrity gets drunk and punches Alex out. Sometimes the celebrity gets him arrested. Usually the celebrity sleeps with his girlfriend, Rita. It may not sound like much of a life, but it invariably leads to great copy and the readers love it. In fact, it's the only thing standing between the Sunday Sun and oblivion.

Amanda Brotchie
Creator
Adam Zwar
Creator

Series Cast

Adam Zwar
Alex Burchill
Kim Gyngell
Howard Evans
Paul Denny
Bob Geraghty
Beth Buchanan
Rita Heywood
Dailan Evans
Dr James Sawers
Geoffrey Rush
Narrator (voice)

Current Season

Season 2

2012 | 8 Episodes

Alex Burchill writes the Lowdown column for struggling tabloid newspaper, the Sunday Sun. Circulation is in decline and the paper is downsizing and adapting to the brutal economic climate, and Alex's methods for unearthing stories become increasingly desperate. Each week he must come up with a shock-and-awe story for the embattled paper, and each week that shock-and-awe story somehow ruins his own life.