Production on a new six-part comedy series from the team behind Review with Myles Barlow begins this week in Sydney.
This Christmas , which will air on ABC1 later in the year, follows Dan Moody (Ian Meadows) as he visits the dysfunctional family he moved halfway across the world to escape from.
The series was created by Trent O'Donnell and Phil Lloyd of production company Jungleboys. O'Donnell (Review with Myles Barlow, Laid, Woodley, The Chaser's War on Everything) will direct, while Lloyd (who was seen last year as Tim Mathieson in ABC comedy At Home with Julia) will co-produce and star in the series.
Other cast members include Patrick Brammall (Hawke), Guy Edmonds (Underbelly: Razor) and Jane Harber (Offspring)
Each episode will be set a year apart, focusing on the Moody family as they come together to share the fights, fun, bad gifts, family secrets and boring uncles universally associated with Christmas Day.
"Christmas is a time ripe for comic picking and the series promises to be both oddly familiar and deliciously funny," said ABC TV head of comedy, Debbie Lee in a statement.
Lee will serve as executive producer alongside Jungleboys' Jason Burrows.