The Shaw Report: I Can Safely Say, That Hasn't Happened In The Saudi Version.

Lisa had the latest in entertainment news this morning in The Shaw Report including the sudden axing of the Australian version of The Office plus she revealed just how many different versions of the show there actually is, the death of a Limp Bizkit band member and AC/DC announce the band who will be opening their Perth shows in December.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
The Sure Report on ninety six air FM.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
Prime Video has axed. The Australian version of the Office.
The down Under iteration starred Flicity Ward as Hannah Howard,
the manager of a packaging company.

Speaker 1 (00:16):
You know.

Speaker 2 (00:16):
It was the fourteenth adaptation of The Office I had.

Speaker 1 (00:19):
I had two.

Speaker 2 (00:20):
They've had versions in Germany that you fun. I know,
India must be any Office, India, France, Saudi Arabia.

Speaker 1 (00:32):
Really and most notably the US.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
The American series of Steve Carell ran for nine seasons
and clocked more than two hundred episodes. You know, the
British original with Ricky Gervat's only had fourteen episodes. I
know touch to the faulty towers about that.

Speaker 1 (00:46):
Very much, but a classic. Please tell me the Saudi
one is not still going and the Australian one has
been axed. Tell me that's not Tell me that because
if that's say, if the same. Sorry, I don't know,
just continued. I'm too scared to be not renewed.

Speaker 2 (01:05):
The Aussie version was plagued from the start, with online
commenters of viscerating the concept even before the show released
any episodes for starters. They didn't like gender flipping the
lead character to female. I reckon I could safely say
that probably hasn't happened in the South. I'm not No,
I would go out on a limb.

Speaker 1 (01:25):
I'd put on it. Yeah, I'd put a fiver on it. Yeah.
So goodbye to the Office Australia. Yes one season.

Speaker 2 (01:33):
Sam Rivers died on the weekend. He was the basist
and founding member of the band Limp Biscuits. He was
forty eight. No cause of death has been disclosed and
ACDC have announced their various support acts who'll be opening
for them on their Power Up Tour, which is coming
to Perth in December. They're having a different band open
for them in every.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
City, so giving everybody a bit of a brain.

Speaker 2 (01:53):
So it's very it's very cool thing to do. So
here at up to Stadium they've announced local favorites Southern
River Ban will fire up the crowd.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
That's a good choice. Yes, that is a very very
good choice to get to get the crowd warmed up.

Speaker 2 (02:06):
A CDC are playing Optics on Thursday the fourth of
December and Monday the eighth. I love how they have
a little break because why wouldn't you at this stage, Well,
there's no rush, No, there isn't.

Speaker 1 (02:17):
They've been doing it long enough and I well, Angustan,
you and Brian and the rest, they can do it
a little, you know, breathe between gigs.

Speaker 2 (02:24):
You know, there's only twelve more Oasis shows to go
as well. Yes, speaking of, there's no rush.

Speaker 1 (02:32):
That's it, that and that'll be it. Se make it.
The boys will look at their super fun to go Yep,
that's it.

Speaker 2 (02:38):
That's that's good.

Speaker 1 (02:39):
I've done. We're happy with that.