Gossip mongerers, Instagram bitches, anyone who has looked through peaky blinders to spy on what the neighbours are doing, REJOICE. That bastion of all things gossipy and controversial is returning to television screens. The Australian television drama NUMBER 96 is set to return to TV screens in the middle of next month and you won’t want to lose your remote control for this one.
Available only to view through cheeky streaming service BROLLIE, TV’s most notorious address will be making its return to screens after 50 years. Brollie is a subsidiary of brilliant home entertainment distributor, Umbrella Entertainment.
From May 16, you can catch great retro and truly groundbreaking television when, in the 1970s, Number 96 took a bold, unfiltered look at Australian life, introducing shocked audiences to taboo subjects that had never been shown on TV before, with lashings of sex, nudity, diversity and queerness.
Set in an inner-city apartment building in Sydney (Woollahra is where the building’s exterior shots were taken), Number 96 peeled back the walls of suburbia to reveal the real world as it was changing.
The Aussie show threw caution to the wind and pulled out all the stops to defy America’s “everyone-loves-Archie” TV representation of culture and society. Instead of patronising and sugarcoating issues, Number 96 shoved them right into viewers faces so that watercooler conversation could take over at the office the next day. Something that really needs to start happening again – before we all die of brain-deading Trumpian boredom.
As with many things heritage in this great country of ours – that have gone by the wayside of thoughtless disposal – only 18 of the original 584 black and white episodes of Number 96 remain in existence (thank the entertainment gods I’ve got it on DVD still).
Brollie will be premiering all 18 black and white episodes on May 16, followed by a special bridging episode featuring TV historian Andrew Mercado and all colour episodes, with five dropping onto the platform each Friday from May 30.
This show makes Downton Abbey and Peaky Blinders look relatively pedestrian.
You can access Brollie through the Apple and Google Play Store, through Apple TV, Google TV and Android TV, via Chromecast with Google TV and on browser at www.brollie.com.au. No excuses to be stuck with redundant reality TV, then.
I think we’re about ready to rewatch ‘Number 96’… The notorious Aussie soap series is back on our screens soon
By creammagazine,
Gossip mongerers, Instagram bitches, anyone who has looked through peaky blinders to spy on what the neighbours are doing, REJOICE. That bastion of all things gossipy and controversial is returning to television screens. The Australian television drama NUMBER 96 is set to return to TV screens in the middle of next month and you won’t want to lose your remote control for this one.
Available only to view through cheeky streaming service BROLLIE, TV’s most notorious address will be making its return to screens after 50 years. Brollie is a subsidiary of brilliant home entertainment distributor, Umbrella Entertainment.
From May 16, you can catch great retro and truly groundbreaking television when, in the 1970s, Number 96 took a bold, unfiltered look at Australian life, introducing shocked audiences to taboo subjects that had never been shown on TV before, with lashings of sex, nudity, diversity and queerness.
Set in an inner-city apartment building in Sydney (Woollahra is where the building’s exterior shots were taken), Number 96 peeled back the walls of suburbia to reveal the real world as it was changing.
As with many things heritage in this great country of ours – that have gone by the wayside of thoughtless disposal – only 18 of the original 584 black and white episodes of Number 96 remain in existence (thank the entertainment gods I’ve got it on DVD still).
This show makes Downton Abbey and Peaky Blinders look relatively pedestrian.
Antonino Tati
You can access Brollie through the Apple and Google Play Store, through Apple TV, Google TV and Android TV, via Chromecast with Google TV and on browser at www.brollie.com.au. No excuses to be stuck with redundant reality TV, then.
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