Plot
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.
Cast
as Alex Burchill
as Howard Evans
as Bob Geraghty
as Rita Heywood
as Dr James Sawers
as Narrator (voice)
Creator
Network
Status
Ended
First Aired Date
April 21, 2010
Last Aired Date
October 25, 2012
Production Companies
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
High Wire Films
Type
Scripted
Number of Season
2
Number of Episodes
16
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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.
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