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Cordell Jigsaw is committed to producing eclectic factual and drama programming for a wide national and international audience.
Listed below is a selection of our recent productions, including those produced by our sister company Jigsaw Entertainment.
RECRUITS
Recruits is an observational documentary series that follows a group of police recruits as they embark on the long and gruelling journey towards becoming fully-fledged police officers. With unprecedented access to the New South Wales Police college and its recruits, Recruits will give audiences a rare glimpse at what’s required of the people we entrust to keep the peace and uphold the law.
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BONDI RESCUE
Bondi Rescue follows the work of the elite professional Lifeguards who patrol Australia’s busiest beach. An average day can involve surf rescues, dealing with drug-affected people, bag thieves, lost children, punch-ups and even scaring away sharks.
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BONDI RESCUE BALI
Bondi Rescue Bali follows a small team of Bondi Rescue lifeguards as they leave the Australian winter and head to work at Bali’s Kuta Beach where the sun is still shining, waves are still pounding and there’s a huge influx of tourists from Australia and all over the world.
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GUERRILLA GARDENERS
Guerrilla Gardeners sees six young warriors, armed to the teeth with attitude and gardening tools, band together to make-over the most barren and concrete-filled spaces in our cities. They will stop at nothing to transform eyesores into beautiful spaces.
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DAVE IN THE LIFE
In every episode of Dave in the Life, Dave Zwolenski experiences the life of someone else. Whether it’s a sex worker, a hunter or a controversial artist, Dave will live with them, eat with them and really see what it’s like to walk several kilometres in their shoes.
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OUT OF THE QUESTION
Out of the Question is a prime time comedy quiz show hosted by Glenn Robbins (Kath & Kim). Out of the Question is a quiz that's a little loose around the edges. Glenn takes his guests down a line of topical questions and conversation that is revealing, funny and informative.
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TWO IN THE TOP END
John Doyle and Tim Flannery explore Australia’s last frontier in an eclectic journey across the Top End from Cairns to Broome. As climate change shifts the national focus northward the two men examine the colourful past, present and future of the Deep North in their inimitable style.
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TWO MEN IN A TINNIE
Satirist John Doyle and scientist Dr Tim Flannery undertake a quixotic voyage down the Murray Darling river system in the mighty Bismarck, a three-metre tinnie with a very bad leak. Their voyage along the inland arteries looks, first hand, at the way the rivers have shaped the people and the people have shaped the rivers in the world’s driest continent.
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SLEEK GEEKS
Sleek Geeks is a factual series for the ABC featuring Dr Karl Kruszelnicki and maths whizz Adam Spencer. Developed off the back of the successful stage show of the same name, the series is an everyday look at science and is entertaining, eclectic and energetic.
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ANATOMY OF A MASSACRE
Anatomy of a Massacre follows expert forensic teams from Australia and Argentina as they exhume the mass graves of an estimated 200 people who were shot and killed by the Indonesian military during an independence march in East Timor in 1991. The findings of the forensic team could solve an ongoing mystery about one of the most infamous mass murders of the 20th century.
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THREE
BOYS DREAMING
Three Boys Dreaming follows the fortunes of three young Aboriginal footballers from around Australia as they try to make the big time in AFL football.
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TWO OF US
Based on Australia’s most successful newspaper column in Good Weekend magazine, Two of Us celebrates friendship and love in all its surprising forms. Each episode profiles a unique relationship between friends, mates, relations or lovers. Screened on SBS Television Two of Us is a much loved and warm-hearted series in a world of bad news.
STUPID STUPID MAN
The action is centred in and around the office of a monthly men's magazine, COQ - part of a big publishing company not unlike ACP - and even though it is called ACP it most definitely is not THE ACP. The central characters are four men who work in the office and the two women who have to put up with them.
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RONNIE JOHNS HALF
HOUR
A successful and surprisingly funny sketch comedy show. Hosted by a cowboy riding a papier mache horse, the show is a very fast paced sketch comedy show - in fact, it is relentless - normally with 24 sketches in a 22 minute show. The Ronnie Johns Half Hour has been universally acclaimed (except by the Catholic Church) both for comedy and the sustained production values - despite its micro budget.
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BLACKJACK TRILOGY
Justice means more than punishing those who commit crimes - it means never giving up on the search for the truth. This is Detective Jack Kempson's creed and motivates him in his pursuit of long unsolved cases and answers for those left behind.
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WELCHER & WELCHER
Welcher & Welcher is a unique comedy series created by, and starring one of Australia’s best comic performers, Shaun Micallef.
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A CASE FOR THE CORONER
A Case for the Coroner is a groundbreaking series which takes a behind-the-scenes
look at the office of the New South Wales State Coroner.
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SUSPICIOUS MINDS
Suspicious Minds is a fascinating documentary series that follows leading forensic and coronial investigators as they conduct their meticulous work solving unexplained, mysterious or suspicious deaths.
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DRAMA SCHOOL
Drama School is a nine-part series on life inside Australia’s most famous acting school - where what happens off stage is often more dramatic than what happens on it.
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FLYING BOOMERANGS
The adventures and insights of 24 young indigenous teenagers are documented as they embark on the first Aussie Rules tour of South Africa. Drawn from Aboriginal communities and families around the country the young players spent two weeks in the republic playing in South Africa’s emerging AFL competition and visiting landmarks such as Soweto and the Robben Island prison.
BONDI
Bondi follows an eclectic group of characters over one sweltering summer.
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MUSIC & MURDER
Music and Murder follows the story of three convicted murderers, all serving
long sentences for horrific crimes, who are using music as a form of informal
‘therapy’ in the Australian prison system.
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YEAR OF THE DOGS
Year of the Dogs is a 1997 documentary detailing the 1996 season of the Footscray Football Club (now Western Bulldogs). Filmed during the turbulent 1996 season where they finished second-last (15th) in the Australian Football League, the documentary follows the club and two dedicated fans, Pat and Jenny Hogson.
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AFTERSHOCK
AFTERSHOCK is a science/documentary series about the not-so-distant future, presented by Richard Fidler (Ex Doug Anthony Allstars, Race Around the World, Mouthing Off, The Big Gig).
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ASYLUM - LIVE AT THE
FORUM
Asylum - Live at the Forum is a live standup comedy show produced for the Comedy Channel and the Nine Network.
Featuring both Australian and International comics, Asylum is a co-production between Jigsaw and Ross Mollison Productions, one of Australia’s leading live theatre producers and promoters.
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THE ORIGINAL MERMAID
The Original Mermaid is a vibrant, luscious and effervescent celebration of a wonderful character, Annette Kellerman, an Australian who became one of the more famous women of her day.
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O’LOUGHLIN
Interviews with special guests, visits from regulars such as Adam Spencer, Dave O’Neill, comedy sketches and live music hosted by former lawyer and comedian James O’Loghlin.
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