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…market leaders in staff underpayment. 
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Some episode synopses for this season 
Warning SPOILERS
5 Feb After the Taylors’ old housekeeper, gets married and moves away, Aunt Bee moves in to take care of Andy but Opie will not accept her and tampers with her brakes.
12 Feb Andy and Barney (Christie Whelan) decide to take action when the state police leave them out of a manhunt for an escaped lunatic (Barnaby Joyce).
19 Feb Andy helps a local folk guitarist get a chance at stardom by arresting a band passing through town and shooting them when they try to escape.
26 Feb An Australian billionaire paper recycler comes to Mayberry to meet with his accountants but Andy gets suspicious when he finds out the mysterious visitor has only ever paid $1.36 in tax
4 March Andy suspects that Ellie is thinking about marriage when she invites him to the annual church picnic wearing a wedding dress.
11 March Andy teaches Opie about keeping promises, then must figure what to do with a friend of Opie’s who has run away from home to join the public service.
18 March Andy and Ellie stage a fake hostage situation to boost Barney’s self-confidence but Barney gets into trouble when he detonates explosives on the roof and destroys a helicopter.
25 March Andy is disappointed in Opie for giving so little to a charity drive – until he learns the reason (SPOILER ALERT: Opie is laundering his money through a Cayman Islands shell company).
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Nitpicking I know - but they used the relatively new Qantas and Target logos, but the old Doninos and Rebel ones? 
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I’m actually surprised the ABC let Mad As Hell get away with putting the national broadcaster’s logo on that joke “Sponsor Billboard” featuring all the companies who’ve underpaid their staff - funny stuff though! 
The ANC is just as guilty as the others, so don’t see why not. Mad As Hell is not above taking the piss out of themselves and the ABC. It happens in almost every show, every week.
Last night called himself a communist because that’s what some right wingers have called people who work at the ABC. They also slammed almost every Australian program in prime time.
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Gruen criticized the ABC a couple of times in the past few years. Media Watch ripped into ABC News on Monday night. The ABC has never been afraid, in recent years at least, to criticize itself.
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13 more eps will air in the backend of the year after The Weekly
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So no more Your Gen for Shaun and no chance of another season The Ex-PM.
I think we would have heard about Your Gen by now especially with Andy doing Front Bar
An excellent read. Can also recommend his new one with Gary MacAffrie, a collection of scripts from The Micallef Programme, Newstopia and Mad As.
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McCaffrie. Yes the books are all very good.
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Ta, holiday brain strikes again!
I like the theme remix they have for this season.
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Mad As Hell will be a different show without an audience 
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Always makes plenty of time to do book signings around the place too. He signed a copy of The President’s Desk for me a few years ago.
Yes, it will feel different without an audience for the show. Both for the natural laughter, and also for the “audience interviews” too - aka in the comical Q&A style.
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Even Francis prefers it without an audience.
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I watched the first 3 mins of Mad as hell and there was a laughter track in it. After that there’s no laughs from the audience.