''Sit Down, Shut Up'' is a short-lived Australian
sitcom
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broadcast by
Network Ten
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. It ran from 16 February 2001 until 28 June 2001 for a total of 13 episodes.
The series followed the staff and students at a dysfunctional fictional
high school
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called Carpen Heights Secondary College, and focused on the life of the teachers in and out of the staff room.
A writer for the series claimed that producer/comedian
Chris Lilley had borrowed ideas for characters and plots from ''Sit Down, Shut Up'' for his 2007 series ''
Summer Heights High''. The ideas Lilley reportedly borrowed included the school's name and aspects of the Mr G character.
Cast
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Marg Downey as Sue Dirkin
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Stephen Curry
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as Stuart Mill
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Jacqueline Brennan as Helen Peters
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Christopher Brown as Brent Townsend-Ross
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Jodie Dry
Jodie Dry (born 20 January 1974) is an Australian actress.
Career
She is known for her role as Nicole Brown, a former model and a former girlfriend of Joe Hill, in '' White Collar Blue''; and as Biddy Marchant in ABC's ''Grassroots'', havi ...
as Julia Denholm-Ponsford
* Paul Gleeson as Felix Sedgely
* Tayler Kane as Stefan Ravazzi
* Tim McLoughlan as Chaps
* Brendan Reed as Dean Tate
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Bernard Curry as Greg Ilyich
American remake
In 2009, an
animated
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remake of the series titled ''
Sit Down, Shut Up'' aired on
Fox
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Twelve species ...
, premiering on 19 April 2009. This American version featured the voices of
Henry Winkler
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,
Will Arnett
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,
Jason Bateman
Jason Kent Bateman (born January 14, 1969) is an American actor. He is known for his roles as Michael Bluth in the Fox Broadcasting Company, Fox / Netflix sitcom ''Arrested Development'' (2003–2019) and Marty Byrde in the Netflix crime drama s ...
,
Will Forte,
Kenan Thompson
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, and
Cheri Oteri
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Earl ...
,
Nick Kroll
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, and
. It was developed by
Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of ''
Arrested Development
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''. Former ''
Simpsons'' writer
Josh Weinstein
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acted as
showrunner
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.
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/ref> The series received lackluster reviews and was pulled from FOX's Sunday night lineup after four episodes. The program aired all of its episodes when FOX put ''Sit Down Shut Up'' on late-night Saturday. ''Sit Down Shut Up'' then aired on Comedy Central
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(in reruns, initially a number of times throughout the day).
References
External links
Australian Television Information Archive
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2000s Australian television sitcoms
Network 10 original programming
Australian high school television series
Australian workplace comedy television series
2000s high school television series
2000s sitcoms
2000s workplace comedy television series
2001 Australian television series debuts
2001 Australian television series endings
Australian English-language television shows
Television series about educators
Australian television series about teenagers
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