The Ex-PM

2015 • Australian Broadcasting Corporation
4.5
8 reviews
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Season 2 episodes (16)

1 Money
10/26/17
Season-only
Thanks to the surprise success of his (ghost-written) autobiography, Ex-PM Andrew Dugdale is called back into the fold to stand for election in a marginal Murray-Darling-Downs electorate.
2 Power
11/2/17
Season-only
Following the volleyball 'incident', Henry decides on a 'Small Target Strategy' this week.
3 Image
11/9/17
Season-only
Dugdale has unsurprisingly lost ground in local polling and is now neck-and-neck with his main rival Lorelei Baggins.
4 Justice
11/16/17
Season-only
Attempting to ease his conscience, Dugdale pays his billionaire benefactor Fabian Silver (Vince Colosimo, The Warriors) and his man Friday Reece (Frank Woodley, Oddball) a visit.
5 Faith
11/23/17
Season-only
With the McKendrick report out, claiming that Dugdale is a war criminal amongst other assertions - the team rush to find a feel-good story to keep the report off the front page.
6 Reckoning
11/30/17
Season-only
It's the day of the big town hall debate, the key to everything the team has been working toward.
101 Season 2: Interview - Andrew (Bonus)
10/20/17
Season-only
Shaun Micallef talks about playing Andrew
102 Season 2: Interview - Curtis (Bonus)
10/20/17
Season-only
Francis Greenslade talks about playing Curtis
103 Season 2: Interview - Henry (Bonus)
10/20/17
Season-only
John Clarke talks about playing Heny
104 Season 2: Interview - Carol (Bonus)
12/1/17
Season-only
Kate Jenkinson talks about playing Carol
105 Season 2: Interview - Catherine (Bonus)
12/1/17
Season-only
Nicki Wendt talks about playing Catherine
106 Season 2: Interview - Myles (Bonus)
12/1/17
Season-only
Jackson Tozer talks about playing Myles
107 Season 2: Interview - Sonny (Bonus)
12/1/17
Season-only
Nicholas Bell talks about playing Sonny
108 Season 2: Interview - Rita (Bonus)
12/1/17
Season-only
Ming-Zhu Hii talks about playing Rita
109 Season 2: The Situation Room (Bonus)
12/1/17
Season-only
Myles shows us his Sit-Room
110 Season 2: Poster Graffiti (Bonus)
12/1/17
Season-only
The cast add grafiti to the Andrew Dugdale campaign posters

About this show

As Prime Minister, Andrew Dugdale (Shaun Micallef) mattered. He dined with presidents and kings, hosted world summits and changed the lives of millions of his fellow Australians. Now his electorally enforced retirement has given him time enough to ponder the question ‘Was it all worth it?’ Not that he is asking it, of course. No, his inquisitive ghostwriter Ellen has an inconvenient appetite for the truth. After blowing the advance for his memoirs but writing nothing in return, the Ex-PM must accept Ellen into his dysfunctional household (one that includes a wife in name only, a grown up daughter with father issues, his former Chief of Staff who knows where the bodies are buried, a manager under house arrest and a chauffeur with a metal plate in his head).

Ratings and reviews

4.5
8 reviews
Steven TREWIN
November 13, 2015
Better than I thought it would be. Each character has their humerous quirks except for the biographer who is the one normal person and she does that role well. Topical and witty I thought. Satire is what Aust does best. Lightweight but yet still very well done.
1 person found this review helpful
Joss S
January 12, 2018
What would Australian comedy be without Shaun Micallef? I never want to find out.
4 people found this review helpful