Frontline (Australian television series)

Frontline
Genre	Comedy/Satire
Starring	Rob Sitch Jane Kennedy Alison Whyte Tiriel Mora Bruno Lawrence Kevin J. Wilson Steve Bisley
Country of origin	Australia
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	3
No. of episodes	39 (list of episodes)
Production
Running time	19–26 minutes
Production company(s)	Working Dog Productions
Release
Original network	ABC TV
Picture format	4:3 PAL
Audio format	Stereo
Original release	9 May 1994 – 19 May 1997

Frontline is an Australian comedy television series which satirised Australian television current affairs programmes and reporting. It ran for three series of 13 half-hour episodes and was broadcast on ABC TV in 1994, 1995, and 1997.

The series was written, directed and produced by Jane Kennedy, Santo Cilauro, Rob Sitch and Tom Gleisner. They created and performed in the television shows The D-Generation and The Late Show before creating Frontline (as well as Funky Squad between seasons 1 and 2 of Frontline). After Frontline they moved into feature films, making several popular Australian movies including The Castle and The Dish, and hosted The Panel for several years, before moving on to Thank God You're Here and later Have You Been Paying Attention?.

The series was partly inspired by a 60 Minutes special "Has the media gone too far?". It bears some similarity to the UK series Drop the Dead Donkey.

The series follows the fortunes of a fictional current affairs show, Frontline. In the show, Frontline competes directly with Nine's A Current Affair and Seven's Real Life, which changed its name to Today Tonight from 1995 onwards.

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