''Mal.com'' is an Australian
children's television
Children's television series (or children's television shows) are television show, television programs designed for children, normally scheduled for broadcast during the morning and afternoon when children are awake. They can sometimes run during ...
series which premiered on 28 October 2011 on
ABC3
ABC Me (stylised as ABC ME) is an Australian English language children's free-to-air television channel owned by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. It was officially launched by Prime Minister Kevin Rudd on 4 December 2009 as ABC3.
Hist ...
. The series which consists of 13 episodes series was produced by Susie Campbell for Animazing Productions.
Plot
''Mal.com'' follows the adventures of a group of children who discover that one of TV's most popular hosts, Malcom Mann is actually a robot, otherwise known as a Male Artificial Life form. Television producer Holly picked him up cheap at an auction site and reprogrammed him to become the number one star on TV3, the number one TV network. The three homeless children - Jake, Daisy and the Kid - offer to keep quiet if she gives them a home, so they pretend to be his children.
[http://www.australiantelevision.net/mal-com/]
Cast
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Geoff Paine
Geoff Paine is an Australian television and theatre actor from Melbourne. After graduating from drama school Paine secured a role on the soap opera ''Neighbours'', playing the role of doctor Clive Gibbons. He remained in the role for one year be ...
as Malcom Mann
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Danielle Carter as Holly
* Luke Ledger as Jake
* Ruby Hall as Daisy
* Gwy McKenna as Kid
* George Ashforth as Chas
Allusions
In one episode a reference is made to
Good Game: Spawn Point, where Mal gives a game rating of "8 rubber chickens" followed by rubber chickens being thrown at him, as Good Game SP hosts use rubber chickens to score games.
Another episode features Mal filming a program called "Mal vs. Wild" a parody of
Man vs. Wild
''Man vs. Wild'', also called ''Born Survivor: Bear Grylls'', ''Ultimate Survival'', ''Survival Game'', or colloquially as simply ''Bear Grylls'' in the United Kingdom, is a survival television series hosted by Bear Grylls on the Discovery Chan ...
where Mal ingests insects as
Bear Grylls does, and in the same episode during an awkward scene they reference
Prank Patrol.
References
External links
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* {{IMDb title, 2105622
2011 Australian television series debuts
Australian children's television series
Australian Broadcasting Corporation original programming