“Other than the little COVID-y things like masking up and having to do our RAT tests and all that, it was pretty much the same – and that is a good thing because the pacing that you see on the screen is the pace that we’re working at.” Wilson was one of those regulars keen to return when shooting commenced earlier this year. Getting the same cast back meant we knew the voices we were writing for.” “So we let everyone know a year ago that this was the filming window, fully expecting some of the people to have other jobs, but everyone readjusted their calendars.
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“Each series is planned a long way out,” Sitch says.
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Getting the gang back together was, Sitch says, a pleasure, and no mean feat given the likes of Kitty Flanagan and Celia Pacquola have TV comedies of their own to consider. All we’d do is make observations to each other. And the process by which we wrote this series was we would not try to write a single script for at least 12 months. We naturally tend to take longer between series, if not double then one-and-a-half times the gap between every series. We found that each time we sat down to a new series it felt like we couldn’t work out how we’d solved the Rubik’s Cube before. After series two we didn’t think we’d do a third. “After the first series we felt like we wouldn’t do another series. Any joke he ever thought, the best person to say it was Dame Edna. “I often thought, why did Barry Humphries’ Dame Edna survive 50, 60 years. Sitch likens the show to a baseball catcher’s mitt, being the perfect place to field a huge range of jokes. “There’s this idea that Working Dog have got spies somewhere, everywhere, but it’s amazing how people actually just want to talk, they want to spill the beans, so not only do I get, oh it’s just like our office, blah, blah, blah, they are more than happy to share the shenanigans.”
While it plays for laughs, Wilson says viewers have often told her the series accurately portrays what is happening in offices all round the country. So what is it that has lured them back to the office of the Nation Building Authority? For one thing, there’s no shortage of fodder, says Emma-Louise Wilson, who plays Tony’s personal assistant Katie in the series.
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Generally, after a couple of seasons they’d move on to something completely different, like the iconic Australian movie The Castle, the trail-blazing primetime talk show The Panel, or one of their two current hits, Have You Been Paying Attention? and The Cheap Seats. Utopia first hit our screens in 2014, and the new season is the fifth, a marathon for Sitch and his team at Working Dog (Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner), whose CV includes critically acclaimed sitcoms Frontline and The Hollowmen. Everyone is buttering you up, everyone is putting the goal just out of reach to keep you in your spot.” “He’s the sort of the guy who has his resignation letter in his top drawer, so he’s always thinking that he’s just about to make the breakthrough. Credit: Hwa Goh/ABCĪfter years of battling both the self-serving powers-that-be upstairs and the willing-but-clueless staff around him, is Tony likely to fare any better this time round? “There’s something Groundhog Day about almost every episode,” Sitch says. Tony (Rob Sitch) and Katie (Emma Louise Wilson) in series five of Utopia.
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