The Games - Season 1 - Eps 11: A Conflict of Interest
John tries to keep a Sydney businessman from gaining a seat on SOCOG. Plans to sell Games venues to American interests trouble the crew. Gina suffers the aftereffects of conducting yet another tour for visiting dignitaries. The documentary film crew visits John at home on a Sunday morning.
About The Games
Title: The Games
First Air Date: 1998-08-17
Last Air Date: 2000-09-11
Status: Ended
Rating: 7/10 (from 2 votes)
Language: EN
Seasons: 2
Total Episodes: 26
Network: ABC TV
Genres: Comedy
Production Companies: Unknown
Synopsis
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.
Cast
John Clarke
John
Bryan Dawe
Bryan
Gina Riley
Gina
