Lowdown
Lowdown

Lowdown

2010 2 Seasons 16 Episodes ⭐ 4.5 Comedy

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.

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.

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Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

Wasp in Translation

Celebrity tabloid journalist and Lowdown columnist Alex Burchill scores a highly coveted interview with the environmenta

EP 2

Bonk Bonk, Who's There?

Publicist to the stars Hope van der Boom, briefs Alex before he interviews actor, sex-symbol and family man Oliver Barry

EP 3

Zirco Goes Berko

Temperamental tennis star Mitch "Zirco" Zicopoulos has pulled out from a warm-up tournament citing a sore finger, leavin

EP 4

Hart of Darkness

When plagiarising popstar Sofia Corelli is assaulted on the eve of her Melbourne tour, Alex suspects that the renowned t

EP 5

Cooper Scooper

It's late Saturday night, and the editor is thrilled to hear via the police scanner that prominent businessman Jack Coop

EP 6

Lavish Swinger

Australia's number one golfer Mike Lavish arrives in town to promote his new golf DVD game. Armed with video evidence of

EP 7

Who's Your Baddy?

Alex is heavied into writing a puff piece on underworld crime boss Tony Marino and drags Bob along to take the pics. Bli

EP 8

Project Runaway

Project Starsearch finalist Joss Miller has absconded from the show's compound, jeopardising the multi-million dollar TV

EP 1

Pretty Pollie

Alex has a chance to impress the new editor of the Sunday Sun when some erotic photos of the morally conservative Minist

EP 2

Hack in Business

After missing out on the biggest story of the year, Alex has a chance to redeem himself by entrapping a fornicating film

EP 3

One Fine Gay

Alex is commandeered into ghost-writing a controversial column for a high profile footballer who has decided to come out

EP 4

Rex, Lies and Videotape

When Alex is assigned to interview highly volatile actor Lachlan Reid, he goes out of his way to antagonise Reid in the

EP 5

A Bollywood Ending

Alex is charged with locating the spurned lover of Australian test cricket captain Mark Hardy, and convincing her to gra

EP 6

Bubble Trouble

When one of the journalists invited to spend the night in the share-house of reality show 'Life in a Bubble' is found st

EP 7

The Naked Chef

When a celebrity chef insults Alex's new girlfriend on national television, Alex and Bob set up an elaborate News of the

EP 8

Ben Behaving Badly

When Bob inadvertently snaps a compromising photo of singer/actor Ben Hollander, Alex and Bob decide to capitalise on it

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