Double Take (Australian TV series)

Double Take
FremantleMedia Australia
Original release
Network	Seven Network
Release	23 July (2009-07-23) – 24 September 2009 (2009-09-24)

Double Take is an Australian sketch comedy series which premiered on the Seven Network on 23 July 2009. The series ended just over two months later on 24 September 2009.

It featured a number of sketches (notably, the song "9 to 9" (parodying

.

Cast

• Hollie Andrew
• Amanda Bishop
• Helen Dallimore
• Guy Edmonds
• Robin Goldsworthy
• Paul McCarthy
• Darren Weller

Format

Double Take involves the presentation of a variety of skits, parodying famous people and television shows. Instead of fewer, longer sketches, episodes are usually structured to include many skits with longer sketches broken up into segments often concluding after a second or third run.

Impersonations

Andrew	Dallimore	Bishop	Edmonds	Goldsworthy	McCarthy	Weller
*Beyoncé *Katie Holmes *The Veronicas	*Natalie Bassingthwaighte *Judi Dench (unaired) *Melissa Doyle *Angelina Jolie *Kerri-Anne Kennerley *Nicole Kidman *Kim McCosker *Margaret Pomeranz *Ajay Rochester *Britney Spears *Uma Thurman	Queen Elizabeth II *Julia Gillard *Tracy Grimshaw *Bonnie Lythgoe *Kate Miller-Heidke *Roslyn Packer *Sarah Jessica Parker *Amy Winehouse	* Caleb Followill *Richard McLelland *David Stratton *Andrew Symonds (unaired) *John Travolta	* Prince Harry *Dustin Hoffman *Sir Anthony Hopkins *Jules Lund *Chris Martin *Paul McDermott *Shannon Noll *Kerry O'Brien *Brad Pitt *Ricky Ponting	* Prince Philip *Kevin Rudd *Wayne Swan	* Prince Charles *Jason Coleman *Daniel Craig *Peter Garrett *Tony Jones *Sam Newman *Andrew O'Keefe *James Packer *Kid Rock

Notable programs

Double Take features original skits, parodies of other television programmes and films.

There are parodies of community television's

or many TV shows on other networks (such as Channel 7, 9, 10, SBS and the ABC). As well as various sport coverage or news bulletins, and Australian films to classic movies.

Reception

The debut episode of Double Take rated reasonably well, attracting an audience of 1.08 million people and winning the night among the coveted 25- to 54-year-old viewers' demographic. Subsequent ratings varied wildly between as many as 1,000,000 and as few as 400,000 viewers, although the show remained very popular among younger viewers throughout its run.

Surprisingly, for a sketch comedy show (typically regarded by critics as a 'low art'), Double Take was well received by reviewers writing for Australia's major broadsheet newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian, while earning negative criticism only from the more tabloid Daily Telegraph.

Episode No.	Airdate	Ratings (in millions)	Nightly rank	Weekly rank
1	23 July 2009	1.084	11th	34th
2	30 July 2009	0.942	13th	53rd
3	6 August 2009	0.832	15th

External links

• Double Take at
  IMDb