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Channel Chaos

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Channel Chaos
Directed byBarry Peak
Written byBarry Peak
Chris Kieley
Produced byChris Kiely
StarringJay Hackett
Tim Scally
Lyn Semmler
CinematographyMalcolm Richards
Production
company
Hatful Productions
Distributed byTHG Video (video)
Release date
  • 1985 (1985)
Running time
90 minutes
CountryAustralia
LanguageEnglish
BudgetA $400,000[1]

Channel Chaos is a 1985 Australian film set at a TV station.[2]

Cast

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  • Jay Hackett
  • Tim Scally
  • Lyn Semmler
  • Peter Moon as Dick Jones

Plot

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The actors of the TV series Copfile investigate when their scriptwriter is killed.

Production

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The film was the second of four movies made by the team of Barry Peak and Chris Kiely who ran the Valhalla Cinemas in Sydney and Melbourne. The movie was known in production as A Hatful of Arseholes and the budget was raised through 10BA. Peak and Kiely hated the movie when they finished and decided not to screen it in their own cinema.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b David Stratton, The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry, Pan MacMillan, 1990 p334-225
  2. ^ Scott Murray, Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995, Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p25
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