Double Take (TV series)

Double Take
Season One title card.
Format	Sketch comedy
Created by	Rick Kalowski David McDonald
Starring	Hollie Andrew Amanda Bishop Helen Dallimore Guy Edmonds Robin Goldsworthy Paul McCarthy Darren Weller
Country of origin	Australia
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	10
Production
Location(s)	HSV7 Melbourne 7Two (new & repeats) 7mate (reruns)
Running time	22 minutes
Production company(s)	FremantleMedia Australia
Distributor	Fremantle Media
Broadcast
Original channel	Seven Network
Picture format	16:9
Original run	July 23, 2009 (2009-07-23) – September 24, 2009 (2009-09-24)
External links
Website

Double Take is an Australian sketch comedy series which premiered on the Seven Network on 23 July 2009. The first series of the show ended in 24 September 2009.

Although itself, a show of mixed quality and only passable ratings, it featured a number of sketches (notably, the song "9 to 9" (parodying Dolly Parton's 9 to 5) that became highly popular viral internet items, and led to the appearance of two of the programme's stars, Amanda Bishop and Paul McCarthy, in the highly successful ABC1 sitcom At Home with Julia (2011), in turn co-written and produced by one of Double Take's co-creators, Rick Kalowski.

Cast

• Hollie Andrew
• Amanda Bishop
• Helen Dallimore
• Guy Edmonds
• Robin Goldsworthy
• Paul McCarthy
• Darren Weller

Format

Double Take involves the presentation of a variety of skits, parodying famous people and television shows. Instead of fewer, longer sketches, episodes are usually structured to include many skits with longer sketches broken up into segments often concluding after a second or third run.

Impersonations

McCarthy	Dallimore	Bishop	Weller	Goldsworthy	Andrew	Edmonds
*Kevin Rudd *David Koch *Bernie Fraser Brad McEwan *Bert Newton *Woody Allen *Prince Phillip *John Howard *Wayne Swan *Dalai Lama *Peter Costello *Greg Dee *Rove McManus *Bob Hawke	*Natalie Bassingthwaighte *Melissa Doyle *Ajay Rochester *Britney Spears *Kerri-Anne Kennerley *Kim McCosker *Uma Thurman *Angelina Jolie *Nicole Kidman *Judi Dench (unaired) *Margaret Pomeranz	*Kerry Armstrong *Julia Gillard *Roslyn Packer *Tracy Grimshaw Sarah Jessica Parker *Kate Miller-Heidke *Amy Winehouse *Bonnie Lythgoe *Rachael Bermingham *Queen Elizabeth II *Gabriella Cilmi	*James Packer *Peter Garrett *Kid Rock *Jason Coleman *Daniel Craig *Sam Newman *Prince Charles *Andrew O'Keefe *Tony Jones *Richie Benaud	*Chris Martin *Julie Bishop *Anthony Hopkins *Dustin Hoffman *Prince Harry *Jules Lund *Brad Pitt *Ricky Ponting *Paul McDermott *Kerry O'Brien Shannon Noll	*The Veronicas *Beyoncé *Katie Holmes	*Osama Bin Laden *John Travolta *Caleb Followill *Andrew Symonds (unaired) *David Stratton *Richard McLelland *James Dibble

Notable programs

Double Take features original skits, parodies of other television programmes and films.

There are parodied of Community Television's Channel 31 or many TV shows on other networks (such as Channel 7, 9, 10, SBS and the ABC). As well as various sport coverage or news bulletins. With also from Australian films to classic movies.

Reception

The debut episode of Double Take rated reasonably well, attracting an audience of 1.084 million people and winning the night among the coveted 25-54 year old viewers' demographic. Subsequent ratings varied wildly between as many as 1,000,000 and as few as 400,000 viewers, although the show remained very popular among younger viewers throughout its run.

Surprisingly, for a sketch comedy show (typically regarded by critics as a 'low art'), Double Take was well received by reviewers writing for Australia's major broadsheet newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian, while earning negative criticism only from the more tabloid Daily Telegraph.

Episode No.	Airdate	Ratings (in millions)	Nightly Rank	Weekly Rank
1	23 July 2009	1.084	11th	34th
2	30 July 2009	0.942	13th	53rd
3	6 August 2009	0.832	15th

External links

• Double Take - Official site. (dead link)
• Double Take at the Internet Movie Database.