Real Stories
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| Genre | Comedy |
| Starring | Host Jennifer Adams Announcer/Narrator Greg Fleet Performers Hamish Blake, Andy Lee, Ryan Shelton, Tim Bartley |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| No. of episodes | 8 (As of October 10, 2006) |
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| Running time | 30 minutes per episode (inc. commercials) |
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| Original channel | Channel Ten |
| Picture format | 16:9 |
| Original run | August 22, 2006 – present |
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Real Stories is an Australian comedy television show which first premiered at 9pm on the 22nd of August, 2006 on Network Ten. The season ran for eight episodes ending on the tenth of October. The program is a parody of current affair shows on television, and is hosted by Jennifer Adams, a reporter on the Seven Network. The inspiration for the show came from the incredibly popular We Can Be Heroes, which aired as a six part series in 2005 on the ABC. The show is in a standard current affairs format. The stories contained within the show star Hamish Blake, Andy Lee, Ryan Shelton and Tim Bartley with voice-overs provided by Greg Fleet. The show originally started as a project for Channel 31, Melbourne's community Television station as a combination of Roving Enterprises and Radio Karate. Unlike other parodies of current affairs Real Stories has no "Behind the scenes" footage. Hamish and Andy have appeared on a number of other Network Ten Shows such as Rove Live and 9am with David and Kim promoting the show.
A second season is to start July 2007.
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[edit] What you think
While not featured on the television show in the first week, 'What you Think' is Real Stories' version of the traditional Current Affairs viewer feedback segment. Currently only existing on the Real Stories website, its appearance in the second week of the show is currently unknown but it is assumed to be a part of the second episode. What you think includes a 'viewer' poll even though no viewer question was asked during the first episode. The first question asked was "Have you ever visited a street accountant, but would never reveal it to anyone? Even an internet web poll?". Even though there is no possibility of actually voting YES, the values listed are YES as 98% and NO is the remaining 2%.
An incomplete list of the web polls is found below:
- Episode 1 'Webpoll': Have you ever visited a street accountant, but would never reveal it to anyone? Even an Internet web poll? YES 98%, NO 2%
- Episode 2 'Webpoll': Have you ever pashed an out of control, drunk police officer and loved it?" YES 90%, NO: 10%
[edit] Stories
This is a list of stories which have been featured on the show. A list of the stories being featured next week are available on the Real Stories website.
[edit] Episode One (August 22, 2006)
- Paperboy Recruiter
- Street Accountants: A look at the sordid world of street accountants. These illegal and unregistered accountants menace the streets and night soliciting for work
- Odd Medical Conditions
- 70 Years of Jumping
[edit] Episode Two (August 29, 2006)
- Hopkin Brother Fun-nerals: A look at the Hopkins Brothers, who hope to make funerals fun by using such gags as speech bubbles and hand buzzers on the deceased.
- Modern Day Noah: Wayne Foster thinks he received a message from God in his spaghetti, and is trying to collect two of every animal on earth and build an ark.
- Grounded for Life: The 27 year old man who has been grounded for 15 years because his Dad fell into a coma the day after grounding him.
- Policey's Week: When young police cadets graduate from the academy, they hit the Gold Coast for a week of drinking and fun.
[edit] Episode Three (September 5, 2006)
- The Jesse Martin Cover–up
- H2Flow
- Tribute to a Re–enactor
- Princess Mary Hate Club
[edit] Episode Four (September 12, 2006)
- Celebrity Sex Tape Director
- World Board Games Championships
- Window Washer Scam
[edit] Episode Five (September 19, 2006)
- Church Reviewer
- Broken Chain Email
- Legalising Crime
- 525,599 Minutes Silence
[edit] Episode Six (September 26, 2006)
- Hey Dad..! The Movie
- Shakespeare's New Musical: The story of a director and actors that perform a newly discovered a Shakespeare Musical called "The King Hath Farted".
- Institute of Sayings: After the government cut funds for the Australian Institute of Sayings, we are given an insight into their day-to-day work, and how important they are in our society.
[edit] Episode Seven (October 3, 2006)
- Backyard Disaster
- The Skill Tester Epidemic
- Fat Binge for Comedy
- Bird Call Centre
[edit] Episode Eight (October 10, 2006)
- Male Order Bride: Getting an Internet bride from Russia goes horribly wrong for an Aussie loser. And he learns, it pays to read the fine print.
- Underground Choir: We go undercover with renegade kids who hold clandestine choir practices when it is banned from their school.
- Life Writers: A millionaire hires two comedy writers to make him funnier. This unique insight into the latest corporate craze, is of course an exclusive.
[edit] Guest Stars
- Episode 1: Peter Helliar (Street Accountants)
- Episode 2: Alison Whyte (Fun-neral Home)
- Episode 3: Alan Brough (H2-Flow)
- Episode 3: Jesse Martin (The Jesse Martin Cover–up)
- Episode 4: Steve Oemcke (Celebrity Sex Tape Director)
- Episode 4: Blair McDonough (Celebrity Sex Tape Director)
- Episode 4: Cassandra Magrath (Man Dog)
- Episode 5: Rove McManus (Church Reviewer)
- Episode 5: Derryn Hinch (Broken Chain Email)
- Episode 7: Dave O'Neill (Fat Comedian)
- Episode 7: Tony Martin (Backyard Disaster)
[edit] Random Information
In episode 8, during 'Male Order Bride', Ryan Shelton makes a reference to wikipedia when he talks about how he went on Wikipedia only to find out that 'Alexis' was a really common name for males in Russia.
[edit] DVD Release
Ryan Shelton, appearing on the 30/10/06 edition of radio show Get This told hosts Tony Martin and Ed Kavalee that a DVD of the first series is intended to be released in early 2007.
