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''The Chaser's War on Everything'' was an Australian television satirical comedy series broadcast on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) television station ABC1. It has won an Australian Film Institute Award for Best Television Comedy Series. The cast perform sketches mocking social and political issues, and often feature comedic publicity stunts. The series is produced by the Australian satirical group, The Chaser, consisting of Chris Taylor, Julian Morrow, Craig Reucassel, Andrew Hansen, and Chas Licciardello. Fellow Chaser members Dominic Knight and Charles Firth are not part of the regular on-screen cast. However, Knight is a writer, and Firth compiled roving reports for the show from the United States, until he left the group to start a satirical newspaper in mid-2007. The show premiered on 17 February 2006 and has since produced 58 episodes, broadcast over three seasons between 2006 to 2007 as well as during 2009. The first season was broadcast at an unstable late timeslot on Friday nights. The second and third seasons were broadcast in a more favourable timeslot of Wednesdays at . The show did not return in 2008, but returned on 27 May 2009 for the third season featuring only ten episodes.〔 〕 Following the controversy of the "Make a Realistic Wish Foundation" sketch, the third season was reduced to 8 episodes, being suspended for 2 weeks. The stunts displayed on the show have often been controversial. For example, on 14 July 2006, Licciardello was charged (being later acquitted) after selling fake knives to Canterbury-Bankstown Bulldogs fans outside one of their rugby league games. Licciardello was again arrested, alongside Morrow and nine crew members, on 6 September 2007 after breaching security at the 2007 APEC summit. The last episode of the series was aired on 29 July 2009, and rated an average national audience of 1.45 million.〔(Chaser's Chas bows out with botox ) – smh.com.au, ''28 July 2009''〕〔(Chaser bow out on a high ) – smh.com.au, ''30 July 2009''〕 == Origins == The Chaser was formed by Dominic Knight, Charles Firth, Craig Reucassel, and Julian Morrow, and in 1999 ran a fortnightly newspaper entitled ''The Chaser''. The group later added Chas Licciardello, Andrew Hansen, and Chris Taylor, to assist with its publication. Through the help of Andrew Denton, the Chaser team produced various shows for the ABC: most notably ''CNNNN''. In 2005, The Chaser began filming a pilot for a new television series for the ABC, with the working title ''The Age of Terror Variety Hour''. The Chaser team signed a contract with the ABC to produce 27 half-hour episodes for 2006, which would be based on news reviews, studio monologues and confrontations with politicians, celebrities, and business leaders. The show was to be presented by Morrow, Hansen, Reucassel, Taylor and Licciardello.〔 The ABC rejected the name ''The Age of Terror Variety Hour'' and other names including ''Thank Allah It's Friday''. ABC did accept ''The Chaser is Right'', although it was later rejected by Morrow,〔''The Chaser's War on Everything'' (Commentary). ABC1. No. 5, season 1.〕 while the title ''Hey Hey, it's the Chaser'' was rejected after a pilot under that name was filmed in 2005.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Bradley J Howard CV )〕 They eventually selected ''The Chaser's War on Everything'' as the title. The show was to be performed in front of a live audience, in a more relaxed format than ''CNNNN'' and other Chaser television productions.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Chaser's War on Everything」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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