...for a new Australian comedy series

Tim Minchin is to star in a new Australia comedy series about rush-hour commuters.

Other comics in the cast of Squinters include Sam Simmons, Susie Youssef, Rose Matafeo and Steen Raskopoulos.

This six-part series tracks five carloads of travellers on their way to work and again on their drive home to find out how the workday turned out.

Our commuters include: a dispatch driver hoping to win the woman of his dreams by carpooling her to work; a single mum keen to avoid her teen daughter making the same mistakes in love, while juggling a new romance of her own; a clueless ex-school bully hitching a ride with the guy he tormented; best girlfriends whose friendship is tested when one becomes the other’s unlikely boss; and a newly ‘out’, middle-aged man grappling with both possible redundancy and a recalcitrant dog.

Other members of the ensemble cast include Jacki Weaver from Silver Lining Playbook, YouTubers John Luc (aka ‘MyChonny’) and Christiaan Van Vuuren.

Filming has just begun on the series in Sydney and Los Angeles, and the show will air on Australia’s ABC some time next year.

Published: 16 Oct 2017