Shaun Micallef

Shaun Patrick Micallef is an Australian comedian, actor, writer and television presenter living in Melbourne, Australia. He is currently the host of the satirical news comedy series Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell on the ABC and the game show Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation on Channel Nine.

Works

Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey

Shaun Micallef's Origin Odyssey

Shaun Micallef joins six beloved comedians as they undertake transformative journeys around the world, diving deep into their culture, history and identity

Release Date:2024-09-24

Episode Count:6

Shaun Micallef's Eve of Destruction

Shaun Micallef's Eve of Destruction

It’s a talk show like no other: one question, two guests and the man everyone agrees is this country’s least experienced interviewer. The question? If your house was about to be destroyed, what two things would you save?

Release Date:2024-08-14

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Character:Self - Host

Episode Count:8

Time Bandits
6.3

Time Bandits

Eleven-year-old Kevin's passion for history is put to the test when he joins a ragtag group of time-traveling thieves on a high-stakes and hilarious adventure.

Release Date:2024-07-23

Character:Mayor Landesman

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:91

Makers of Modern Australia

Makers of Modern Australia

A four-part history, told through the stories of some of the country's most intriguing and influential figures: the leaders, rebels, artists and innovators who made modern Australia.

Release Date:2023-09-05

Character:Narrator (voice)

Episode Count:4

Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe
8.2

Aunty Donna's Coffee Cafe

Starring Aunty Donna's Mark Samual Bonanno, Broden Kelly, and Zachary Ruane, the high octane and unpredictable series follows the story of three best mates running a trendy cafe down one of Melbourne's less-than-iconic laneways.

Release Date:2023-04-12

Character:Shaun Micallef

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:12

8.0

The Roast of Paul Hogan

Aussie comedy legends roast an Aussie comedy Icon in this hilarious, no holds barred special.

Release Date:2022-11-22

Character:Self

Vote Count:1

Frankly
5.0

Frankly

Fran Kelly hosts her very own Friday night talk show chatting with some of the biggest names and brains in Australia and from around the globe. Quite Frankly, there'll be no better way to spend your Friday nights.

Release Date:2022-10-07

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

Shaun Micallef's Brain Eisteddfod

Shaun Micallef's Brain Eisteddfod

Shaun Micallef's Brain Eisteddfod will feature teams of three year eleven students from schools across Australia to find the brightest of the bunch. Teams will have to show off their range of knowledge in a handful of categories like maths, art, foreign languages, music, all things Australiana and more.

Release Date:2022-07-20

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Character:Self - Host

Episode Count:10

Bert Newton: Let Me Entertain You

A celebration of the incredible career of Australian television legend Bert Newton. With reflections from Tracy Grimshaw, Hamish Blake, Shaun Micallef and Eddie McGuire.

Release Date:2021-10-31

Character:Himself

Shaun Micallef's on the Sauce

Shaun Micallef's on the Sauce

Shaun Micallef drank too much in his University days & hasn't touched a drop since. Now his sons are hitting drinking age and it's got him thinking. What kind of national drinking culture are they about to dive into?

Release Date:2020-07-21

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Character:Self - Host

Episode Count:3

4.7

Arrowhead

Kye is a prisoner of war caught between two armies that he doesn't believe in. When offered an opportunity for freedom, Kye sets out on one last rescue mission only to become stranded when his ship crash lands. Kye soon realises that the deadliest creature on the desert moon is himself.

Release Date:2017-06-23

Character:RE3F (voice)

Vote Count:52

Dogstar: Christmas in Space

All the world's dogs are lost in space. It's up to the Clark kids to find them and bring them all safely home before Christmas.

Release Date:2016-12-16

Character:Narrator (voice)

The Ex-PM
6.2

The Ex-PM

As our third longest serving Prime Minister, Andrew Dugdale mattered. He dined with presidents and kings, hosted world summits and changed the lives of millions of his fellow Australians. But now he's retired; a not-so-elder statesman with time on his hands to ponder the question - was it all worth it? Not that he's asking of course. No, his inquisitive and over enthusiastic ghostwriter Ellen has an unhelpfully insatiable appetite for the truth.

Release Date:2015-10-14

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Andrew Dugdale

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:4

5.3

Sucker

When Chinese-Australian teenager Lawrence cheats at and fails his high-school exams, destroying his dreams of a medical degree, he's banished to the country for the summer. There, he meets wily old conman the Professor and his cynical daughter Sarah, and learns that even the sneakiest scam can't conjure up love. Is it a true story? That might be another of Leung's tricks.

Release Date:2015-08-15

Character:Harry - Record Store Owner

Vote Count:14

Shaun Micallef's Stairway to Heaven

In his youth Shaun Micallef almost joined the priesthood. Now he wonders if he may have missed his one shot at the answers to life’s big questions. Heading to India, a country where spirituality and the search for meaning is very much a national past time, he immerses himself in the Hindu world of Gods, Gurus and the Ganges. In a bid to get to the heart of the faith, Shaun pushes well beyond his comfort zone on a physical, mental and spiritual adventure. He journeys to the source of the Ganges high in the Himalayas - all the while offering his own unique observations on his quest to find the meaning of life.

Release Date:2014-12-14

It's a Date
6.3

It's a Date

It's a Date is a comedy series exploring the tension, expectation and complication of finding true love. Each new episode features a different cast tackling a different set of situations and addressing a new question each week. Should you have sex on a first date? Does age matter? How accurate are first impressions? How important is honesty on a first date?

Release Date:2013-08-15

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Character:Roland

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Mr & Mrs Murder
6.0

Mr & Mrs Murder

Charlie and Nicola Buchanan are crime scene cleaners whose unique quirks and talents solve the most baffling murder mysteries.

Release Date:2013-02-20

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Character:Charlie Buchanan

Episode Count:13

Vote Count:15

Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell
8.0

Shaun Micallef's Mad as Hell

News satire. A half-hour weekly round-up, branding, inoculation and crutching of all the important news stories of the week. Along with a like-minded Think Tank of reporters and pundits, offering not only reportage and analysis of the week’s events but discussion, argument and dissection of what’s making the world turn every which way.

Release Date:2012-05-25

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Character:Self - Host

Episode Count:123

Vote Count:1

Danger 5
7.4

Danger 5

Set in a bizarre, 1960's inspired version of World War II, the action comedy series follows the finest group of spies the Allies have to offer on a mission to kill Adolf Hitler.

Release Date:2012-02-27

Character:Ernst Kaltenbrunner

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:61

5.6

The Cup

At the heart of this true story is Damien Oliver, a young jockey who loses his only brother in a tragic racing accident, hauntingly reflecting of the way their father died 27 years earlier. After suffering through a series of discouraging defeats, Damien teams with Irish trainer Dermot Weld, and triumphs at the 2002 Melbourne Cup in one of the most thrilling finales in sporting history.

Release Date:2011-11-13

Character:Lee Freedman

Vote Count:17

Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation
2.0

Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation

Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation is an Australian game show produced by Granada Productions which premiered on Network Ten on 5 May 2009. It is hosted by Shaun Micallef. The first series ran for 18 episodes, with the original production order extended due to the success of the show. A second series of 26 episodes began airing from 7 February 2010. Series 2 had a planned hiatus after episode 10 on 18 April 2010 and returned to finish its run on 1 August 2010. Series 3 began on 8 February 2011. On 27 October 2011, Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation was renewed for a fourth series. On 22 January 2012, it was announced that the show would begin airing Series 4 on 1 February 2012 in an 8 pm timeslot.

Release Date:2009-05-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Himself - Host

Episode Count:88

Vote Count:2

Newstopia
8.0

Newstopia

Newstopia is an Australian half-hour satirical comedy programme hosted by Shaun Micallef. The first series premiered at 10:00 pm on SBS TV on 10 October 2007 and concluded on 3 December 2007. A second season began on 27 February 2008 and concluded on 30 April 2008. A third season of the show screened from 1 October to 3 December 2008. The show was developed by Micallef, Gary McCaffrie, Michael Ward and Jason Stephens, with McCaffrie and Ward working as writers on the programme. A fourth series in 2009 was planned, but cancelled due to production clashes with Talkin' 'Bout Your Generation. The show's contributors include Matt Cameron, Doug MacLeod, Dave O'Neil, Tony Moclair and Richard Marsland.

Release Date:2009-01-29

Episode Count:30

Vote Count:1

Q&A
3.8

Q&A

Hosted by Hamish Macdonald, Q&A puts punters, pollies and pundits together in the studio to thrash out the hot issues of the week. It's about democracy in action - the audience gets to ask the questions.

Release Date:2008-05-22

Character:Self - Panellist

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:3

Who Do You Think You Are?
2.8

Who Do You Think You Are?

Australian celebrities play detective as they go in search of their family history, revealing secrets from the past. Along the way there will be scandal, adultery, pioneers, bushrangers, artists and royalty. Join the trail of discovery to uncover where these celebrities came from as they find out just who they think they are.

Release Date:2008-01-13

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:6

7.0

BlackJack: Ghosts

Nearly 20 years ago a young mother was shot during an apparent kidnapping and subsequent police chase. Now after all that time, the man in jail for the murder is about to be paroled. Jack has two missions - to bring the father and his daughter back together and to find out if any justice has been done by the conviction.

Release Date:2007-12-02

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Character:Ian

Vote Count:1

Dogstar
5.0

Dogstar

On the voyage from Old Earth to New Earth, a freak accident causes the Dogstar, a giant space ark containing all of the world's dogs, to become lost to mankind.

Release Date:2007-06-06

Character:Narrator/Boombah (voice)

Episode Count:52

Vote Count:3

6.0

The King

The King is the story of Graham Kennedy, Australia's first and greatest home grown TV superstar. It traces his rise from working class Balaclava kid, through radio, TV, film, and back to TV again. It also tracks Kennedy's personal tragedies - the loneliness, the unrealised ambitions and the terrible pressures of being Australia's first homegrown superstar in the 1950s and 60s.

Release Date:2007-05-20

Character:Colin Bednall

Vote Count:1

7.0

BlackJack: At the Gates

Ten years ago, a baby was killed in a house arson fire after a violent home invasion. The parents used the tragedy as a motivation to help build an evangelical community church but now the mother has comes to Jack for help. Jack agrees to look into the still unsolved crime but in looking for the truth Jack will have to fight the system and his own conscience to uncover a tangled web of lies and deception. In the end, Jack must decide if the truth should prevail over the interests of the innocent.

Release Date:2006-09-24

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:1

7.0

BlackJack: Dead Memory

A young woman goes missing when her car breaks down one rainy night. Her body is later discovered in a national park and for Detective Jack Kempson's offsider Sam, details of the crime mirror the disappearance of her friend Hannah, who vanished without trace some years ago. In Kempson's pursuit of the truth Sam is forced to face the sordid secrets of her past.

Release Date:2006-08-27

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:1

5.1

BlackJack: Ace Point Game

After wearing a wire to catch a dirty colleague selling confiscated drugs, detective Jack Kempson is hated by his colleagues. He also gets 'promoted away' to the basement, where old files get transferred to the national computer database. Thus he comes across fingerprints, now identifiable, in the 30 year old case of Ashley, the kidnapped son of lottery winners. Although he's too late to help him now, he tracks the perpetrators down behind his boss's back.

Release Date:2006-08-20

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:4

Thank God You're Here
6.0

Thank God You're Here

Each episode involves performers walking through a door into an unknown situation, greeted by the line "Thank God you're here!". They then had to improvise their way through the scene. At the end of each episode a winner was announced.

Release Date:2006-04-05

Episode Count:3

Vote Count:6

6.4

Aquamarine

Two teenage girls discover that mermaids really do exist after a violent storm washes one ashore. The mermaid, a sassy creature named Aquamarine, is determined to prove to her father that real love exists, and enlists the girls' help in winning the heart of a handsome lifeguard.

Release Date:2006-03-03

Character:Storm Banks

Vote Count:1499

5.8

BlackJack: In the Money

Jack discovers that a man jailed for matricide could be innocent and the killer could still be close to home. Did Jack's own father-in-law have some part to play in the mystery?

Release Date:2005-09-11

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:3

5.7

BlackJack: Sweet Science

Jack investigates a gangland execution at a children’s football game twelve years ago.

Release Date:2004-11-07

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:5

Through My Eyes
9.0

Through My Eyes

The true life story of Lindy Chamberlain and her recount of a dingo taking her baby

Release Date:2004-10-23

Character:Jack Winneke Q.C

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:1

BlackJack
8.0

BlackJack

BlackJack is a series of Australian television movies created by Shaun Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, and starring Colin Friels. The movies began airing on Network Ten in 2003 and concluded in 2007. They were shown in the United Kingdom on the BBC and UKTV Drama. After testifying against his former colleagues in a corruption trial Sydney detective Jack Kempson is reassigned to a unit charged with entering the details of old cases into a police database. He unofficially begins to investigate unsolved crimes dating back many years.

Release Date:2003-12-21

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:2

4.8

The Honourable Wally Norman

A meat worker is accidentally nominated to run for Parliament and realises that to save the meat works he has to get elected. All that stands in his way is every other politician in the country and his own fear of public speaking.

Release Date:2003-11-12

Character:Ken Oats

Vote Count:2

The 13th House

A highly stylized metaphorical tale about the brutalization of employees under corporate culture.

Release Date:2003-09-01

Character:Sir

5.7

Bad Eggs

Ben Kinnear and Mike Paddock are two undercover detectives with way too much publicity, who find they can no longer turn a blind eye to the corruption in the police force.

Release Date:2003-07-24

Character:Premier Lionel Cray

Vote Count:13

Micallef Tonight
9.0

Micallef Tonight

Micallef Tonight was a short-lived Aria Award–winning Australian variety show that aired on the Nine Network in 2003. It was hosted by comedian Shaun Micallef and also featured the talents of Francis Greenslade, Jason Geary, Livinia Nixon and Pete Smith.

Release Date:2003-05-12

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

7.0

BlackJack

Jack Kempson started out as an idealistic cop. Thirty years on, he remains relentless in tracking down villains, but has lost confidence in his moral barometer. He turns a blind eye to the dubious methods employed by some of his contemporaries — prepared to let dodgy means be justified by the noble end.

Release Date:2003-03-16

Department:Production

Job:Associate Producer

Vote Count:1

Welcher & Welcher
8.0

Welcher & Welcher

Welcher & Welcher was an Australian sitcom written by and starring Shaun Micallef which aired on the ABC in 2003. The show revolved around a husband and wife run law firm.

Release Date:2003-02-06

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:Quentin Charles Welcher

Episode Count:6

Vote Count:1

Rove
8.0

Rove

Rove, formerly Rove Live, was an Australian television variety show which premiered on the Nine Network on 22 September 1999, before moving to Network Ten which aired the program from 2000 until November, 2009. The show was hosted by comedian Rove McManus, and featured an ensemble cast, who presented various segments throughout the course of the show. The show won the Logie Award for "Most Popular Light Entertainment Program" five times.

Release Date:1999-09-22

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:1

The Micallef P(r)ogram(me)
7.5

The Micallef P(r)ogram(me)

The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) is an Australian sketch comedy TV series hosted by Shaun Micallef, and written by Micallef and Gary McCaffrie, that ran from 1998 to 2001 on ABC TV. It was known as The Micallef Program in its first series, The Micallef Programme in its second series and The Micallef Pogram in its third series. The Micallef P(r)ogram(me) is an umbrella title used for the DVD releases.

Release Date:1998-05-11

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Character:

Episode Count:23

Vote Count:2

Shaun Micallef's World Around Him

Shaun Micallef's World Around Him was an Australian sketch comedy television special. Its title is a parody of the Australian documentary series The World Around Us. Airing on the Seven Network in 1996, the special provided a major stepping stone for comedian Shaun Micallef. The show helped to develop much of the style and content of Micallef's successful sketch-comedy series The Micallef Program which began airing on the ABC in 1998.

Release Date:1996-12-31

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Character:Various Characters

Good News Week
8.8

Good News Week

Good News Week was an Australian satirical panel game show hosted by Paul McDermott that aired from 19 April 1996 to 27 May 2000, and 11 February 2008 to 28 April 2012. The show's initial run aired on ABC until being bought by Network Ten in 1999. The show was revived for its second run when the 2007–2008 Writers Guild of America strike caused many of Network Ten's imported US programmes to cease production. Good News Week drew its comedy and satire from recent news stories, political figures, media organisations, and often, aspects of the show itself. The show opened with a monologue by McDermott relating to recent headlines, after which two teams of three panellists competed in recurring segments to gain points. The show has spawned three short-lived spin-off series, the ABC's Good News Weekend, Ten's GNW Night Lite and Ten's skit-based Good News World.

Release Date:1996-04-12

Character:Self

Episode Count:2

Vote Count:4

Blue Heelers
6.6

Blue Heelers

Blue Heelers was one of Australia's longest running weekly television drama series. Blue Heelers is a police drama series set in the fictional country town of Mount Thomas. Under the watchful eye of Tom Croydon (John Wood), the men and women of Mount Thomas Police Station fight crime, resolve disputes and tackle the social issues of the day. We watch their successes and their failures and learn to grow with them and their loved ones as the heart of the series develops.

Release Date:1993-09-10

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:13

Full Frontal
5.5

Full Frontal

Full Frontal was an Australian sketch comedy series which debuted in 1993. The show first aired on the Seven Network on 13 May 1993, and finished on 18 September 1997. In 1998 a spin-off of the show moved to Network Ten under the name Totally Full Frontal, losing most of the original cast in the process and finished in 1999. Since 2008, re-runs have begun screening on The Comedy Channel as part of the channel's "Aussie Gold" block of locally made, classic comedy programming.

Release Date:1993-05-13

Episode Count:107

Vote Count:4

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