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| Genre | Comedy |
| Created by | Paul Fenech |
| Written by | Paul Fenech |
| Directed by | Paul Fenech |
| Starring | Paul Fenech Tahir Bilgic Rob Shehadie Jason "Jabba" Davis Amanda Keller Ian Turpie Angry Anderson Melissa Tkautz Elle Dawe Kiri-Leigh Schmitt Ashur Simon Maret Archer Twinstar Stunts Andy McPhee Kev Taumata Anthony Salame Vanessa Davis |
| Country of origin | Australia |
| Language(s) | English |
| No. of seasons | 1 |
| No. of episodes | 9 (List of episodes) |
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| Running time | 30 minutes |
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| Original channel | SBS One |
| Picture format | 576i (SDTV) 720p (HDTV) |
| Audio format | Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Original run | 24 October 2011 – present |
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| Related shows | Pizza, Swift and Shift Couriers |
Housos is an Australian comedy television series created by Paul Fenech for SBS, that screens on SBS One. The series is a satirical parody of low income Australian residents of fictional suburb Sunnyvale, who are living in Housing Commission public housing.
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The cast of Housos features many actors from Fenech's previous programmes, Pizza and Swift and Shift Couriers.[1]
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Housos came under fire from a number of western Sydney residents, who have called on for SBS to not to put the series to air. A petition begun by residents on a housing commission property received thousands of signatures, and the efforts gained support from local politicians. Mount Druitt MP Richard Amery presented the petition in Parliament in late April 2011. Housos was also at the centre of a controversy in February thanks to an erroneous attack by the Nine Network's A Current Affair, which initially claimed that the series was "reality TV". Nine later said that the mistake originated from an 18-year-old girl working at ninemsn. SBS was also forced to defend the show by stating that the series was not receiving funding from the government, and it was instead being funded by the network's own revenue raising activities.[2]