The earth cooled, we wrote the sitcom Outland, the dinosaurs died, we made Outland, Melissa Tkautz had a hit with “Read My Lips” and finally Outland is ready to premiere! It starts on Wednesday 8th of February at 9.30pm on ABC1 (you’ll come for the gay science fiction fans, you’ll stay for David and Margaret).
You may have seen there’s a lovely promo going around – it looks like this:
In preparation and promotion I’ve been shouting at anyone who’ll listen – here’s a list of places you can find me in the next few weeks:
LIVE!
Melbourne Science Fiction Club
Friday January 27th
St. David‘s Uniting Church Hall
74 Melville Road, West Brunswick
Hall opens at 8pm
I’ll be talking Outland, its development and probably showing a clip or two.
Queer Nerd
Thursday February 2nd
Bar Nancy
61 High St, Northcote
7.30pm
This is a spoken word event for the Midsumma Festival and I’ll be one of several people doing some speaking – sort of like stand-up comedy but not necessarily funny. But maybe it will! Find out!
NOT LIVE!
I talk forever on the Shooting The Poo podcast (terrible name, good podcast);
I’m a guest on TV Revolution;
I’m interviewed for Crikey by Matt Smith (no, not that one);
Back on Boxcutters – the tippest toppest Australian TV podcast – we talk to Toby Truslove about acting, Outland and AACTA Awards.
And I’ll be coming up on Guy-Fi, Sci-Fi & Squeam, Diffrent Strokes, The Age Green Guide, I’ll probably be going door-to-door at some point (“Hello. Have you considered letting a gay-and-lesbian-science-fiction-fan-club-comedy into your lives?”).
You can keep up with Outland news and events at the official facebook page, and check out the brilliant insanity of the Where’s Outland? tumblr (and why not join in? I know I have. But I’m not saying which one is mine).
And watch Outland on February 8th on ABC1, or else on iView. Or both. Whatever. I’m not your mother.
The Outland Institute 