EndedABC TV1998-08-17

The Games

Name: The Games
Genre: Comedy
Released: 1998-08-17
Rating: 7.667
Cast: John Clarke, Bryan Dawe, Gina Riley

Comedy~30 min

Seasons

Episodes

Networks

ABC TV

Countries

First aired

1998-08-17

Last aired

2000-09-11

Language

Rating

7.7 / 10

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Synopsis and details

The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. 'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.