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The Games
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The Games was an Australian mockumentary television series about the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. The series was originally broadcast on the ABC and had two seasons of 13 episodes each, the first in 1998 and the second in 2000. 'The Games' starred satirists John Clarke and Bryan Dawe along with Australian comedian Gina Riley and actor Nicholas Bell. It was written by John Clarke and Ross Stevenson. The series centred on the Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games and satirised corruption and cronyism in the Olympic movement, bureaucratic ineptness in the New South Wales public service, and unethical behaviour within politics and the media. An unusual feature of the show was that the characters shared the same name as the actors who played them, to enhance the illusion of a documentary on the Sydney Games.

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Status
Ended
Language
EN
First aired
August 17, 1998
Last aired
September 11, 2000
Seasons
2
Episodes
26
Network
ABC TV

Season 1

Episodes

No episodes found for this season.

Featuring

Cast & crew

3 credited
Starring
John Clarke

John Clarke

John

Bryan Dawe

Bryan Dawe

Bryan

Gina Riley

Gina Riley

Gina

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