Horse 421 - Weakness

The ABC are weak dogs who make me sick - don't ever watch them again - Steve Foxx

The ABC it turns out have no plans to release DVD 2 of Double the Fist. This 8 part ABC series shown on television last June and July beat Kath & Kim to an AFI award for Best Comedy but did the ABC take notice? Not in the slightest.

Here was a show that exposed weakness in all it's forms, via the use of a mockumentary game-show type... it defied description really. Graphically it was extremely slick and all 8 shows were done on the paltry budget of just $125,000.

You'd think after the success the series had and the fact that DVD 1 had sold nearly 77,000 copies that the ABC would commission a second series, but nooooo. Kath & Kim on the other hand had its funding secured by being sold to the ABC.

In fact the only way to get the second half of the series on DVD was to go to Supernova where Steve Foxx himself and Panda had taken half of someone else's booth and pirated the copies themselves. The DVD's are marked Illegal & Unauthorised and personally signed by Steve. Which leads me to an interesting conundrum, have I breeched copyright by paying for an "illegal" DVD by paying the originator of the work directly? If copyright resides with the ABC and isn't for sale but I pay the owner of the intellectual property, what happens then?

I don't know exactly, but I'd rather help out the artists who made the series, than let them be dumped without an income stream. I hope that someone picks up the second series that was in pre-production.

In the meantime the ABC gets NO FIST.