Watch The Hilarious First Trailer For Benjamin Law’s New SBS Show ‘The Family Law’
This is going to be GREAT.
Australian public-broadcast TV is in a pretty good place at the moment. Josh Thomas’ Please Like Me has been a surprise hit with the US market, picking up an Emmy nomination last year and moving up to ABC1 in July. The memoir/confessional has been a winning formula for Thomas, and now another young Aussie, Frankie writer and bestselling author Benjamin Law, is getting a family coming-of-age comedy all his own.
Based on the critically acclaimed memoir of the same name, The Family Law is a guide to the sprawling, eccentric and mildly dysfunctional Law family, told from the perspective of a young Benjamin going up in suburban Queensland in the ‘8os and ’90s.
The Family Law had a special screening of its first two episodes at Parliament House last night, and judging from Law’s Twitter, it went pretty dang well.
Tonight: the Parliamentary screening of #TheFamilyLawSBS. Tomorrow: we declare @SenatorWong as Queen of the Andals and all known lands.
— Benjamin Law (@mrbenjaminlaw) October 14, 2015
Took an artistic detour on the way to the launch of @mrbenjaminlaw‘s “The Family Law” at Parliament House… pic.twitter.com/NFIKHsScDl — Tim Watts (@TimWattsMP) October 14, 2015
Tonight the first ads for #TheFamilyLawSBS went to air and we screened Eps 1 & 2 at PARLIAMENT FRIGGIN HOUSE. Drunk and happy. Mostly drunk.
— Benjamin Law (@mrbenjaminlaw) October 14, 2015
An official release date hasn’t been announced yet, but The Family Law is due to hit screens sometime in early 2016.