{"id":50792,"date":"2018-07-23T02:46:42","date_gmt":"2018-07-23T00:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/2018\/07\/23\/tim-minchin-lands-new-tv-series-upright-the-show-ive-been-waiting-for\/"},"modified":"2018-07-23T02:46:42","modified_gmt":"2018-07-23T00:46:42","slug":"tim-minchin-lands-new-tv-series-upright-the-show-ive-been-waiting-for","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/?p=50792","title":{"rendered":"Tim Minchin lands new TV series Upright: &#039;The show I&#039;ve been waiting for&#039;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Foxtel-Sky UK production will follow two misfits and a cherished piano on a road trip across AustraliaMusician, writer and comedian Tim Minchin \u2013 the creator of Matilda: The Musical \u2013 has added a new string to his bow, landing a starring role in his first TV series, Upright, which will begin shooting in South Australia and Western Australia in October. A co-production between Australia\u2019s Foxtel, Sky UK and production company Lingo Pictures, the series \u2013 a buddy road trip comedy starring Minchin and teenager Milly Alcock \u2013 was created by Chris Taylor of Australian satirical team The Chaser. It has a writing team that includes Minchin, Taylor and actor\/writer Kate Mulvany, and will be directed by Please Like Me\u2019s Matthew Saville. Continue reading&#8230;<br \/>\nVia: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/stage\/2018\/jul\/23\/tim-minchin-lands-new-tv-series-upright-the-show-ive-been-waiting-for\" target=\"_blank\">Tim Minchin lands new TV series Upright: &#039;The show I&#039;ve been waiting for&#039;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Foxtel-Sky UK production will follow two misfits and a cherished piano on a road trip across AustraliaMusician, writer and comedian Tim Minchin \u2013 the creator of Matilda: The Musical \u2013 has added a new string to his bow, landing a starring role in his first TV series, Upright, which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-50792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50792","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theworldwidejournal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}