The Weekend Shift.
Lee Lin Chin is set to star in new SBS comedy web pilot The Weekend Shift produced by SBS 2’s The Feed.
The pilot premieres Monday 9 May on SBS On Demand.
The show is a new scripted comedy pilot that follows the team behind the fictional SBS Weekend News and their struggles with ratings, budget cuts and getting Lee Lin out of the pub and into the studio.
In the tradition of Frontline, 30 Rock and The Larry Sanders Show, The Weekend Shift is a self-deprecating look at a B Team of dysfunctional misfits who put the 'weak' in Weekend News.
Nick Smith (Miles Bence – Fresh Blood), a thirty-something supervising producer old beyond his years thanks to stress and sleepless nights, leads the team including journalists Laura Knight (Madeleine Madden – Tomorrow When the War Began), Emily Wright (Renee Lim – Please Like Me), social media guy Craven (Chris Leben – Victims Guide to Kidnapping), editor Rohan (Peter Moalaeua – Atomic Kingdom) and news host Lee Lin Chin (as her inimitable self).
Created by Chris Leben and Nick McDougal (Plonk, Hungry Beast) and produced by Nick Hayden (The Feed, Tropfest, Hungry Beast) and Georgie Lewin (Plonk), The Weekend Shift is the latest in SBS’s long history of scripted offbeat comedy, which includes Life Support, Wilfred, Housos and Newstopia.