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Night Terrace - time travelling to 6 PM Sundays on BBC Radio 4 Extra! Series 1 from April 21, series 2 from August 25.

Coming soon to a BBC near you!

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We said we’d have some big news early this year – and this is it! Night Terrace is coming to the BBC! To celebrate, we’re making a new podcast discussing the show – and we want to answer your questions!

Landing on BBC radio from April 21

Beginning April 21, Night Terrace season one – or series one, to use the BBC term – will be broadcast weekly on Sundays on BBC digital channel Radio 4 Extra at 6 PM UK time (that should be 3 AM Monday morning, Melbourne time, given he changeover for daylight savings). It will also be rebroadcast at midnight (9 AM Monday our time), and each episode will be available internationally in the BBC iPlayer (aka BBC Sounds) for 30 days after broadcast. After a break, series two will follow in the same timeslot from August 25.

You’ll see Night Terrace pop up in the Radio 4 Extra schedule about two weeks before broadcast. If you can’t wait until then, you can still listen to episode one right here, and both series – plus two mini-series and our live recorded special – remain on sale on our web site and in our Bandcamp store.

For media enquiries, please contact Barbara Wright at The Wright Word Publicity via thewrightwordpublicity@gmail.com. Review copies are available to media.

On the Terrace

To celebrate the BBC broadcast, we’ve decided to put together a new, limited-run weekly podcast: On the Terrace. Hosted by Vaya Pashos of the hit Neighbours podcast Neighbuzz, each instalment of On the Terrace will discuss that week’s episode of Night Terrace with guests from the cast and crew. Watch this site for more on this new project very soon!

Cast and crew will also be answering questions from fans, and we’d love you to send in yours! Email them to us at info@nightterrace.com and we’ll do our best to answer them.

Night Your Own Terrace in six new mini-episodes!

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It’s a Hogswatch miracle! Just in time for Christmas, on the 23rd of the month – the old Splendid Chaps date – we bring you Night Your Own Terrace, a mini-series of mini-episodes featuring some not-so-mini adventures – and almost an hour of new Night Terrace content!

Album cover for "Night Your Own Terrace" showing Ben McKenzie, Petra Elliott and Jackie Woodburne in character as Eddie Jones, Sue Denholm and Anastasia Black, in front of a large image of the sun in space. A sub-title reads: "A mini-series of mini-episodes by you!"

Anastasia, Eddie and Sue find themselves on Pluto, in Antarctica and even more improbable places in six more bite-sized adventures inspired by suggestions from some of our Kickstarter backers. Now the creators have had a chance to listen to them (several hundred times over, by our calculations), and with their kind permission, we’re making them available to the public. (If you backed the season two Kickstarter campaign, you have already been sent these episodes for free – check your Kickstarter updates for details!)

When do these adventures happen, you ask? We’re never that fussed with continuity here at Night Terrace (well…except for Ben), but we’d say during the the first half of Night Terrace season two – definitely before episode five (Ancient History). But these mini-episodes are specifically designed to be listened to in any order you like – why not play them at random? It’s what we do!

Night Your Own Terrace consists of six episodes, starring Jackie Woodburne, Ben McKenzie and Petra Elliott, each 7 to 10 minutes in length for a total running time of around 50 minutes – making it twice as long as our last mini-series!

It’s available now from this site and in our Bandcamp store – pick up a copy today at the bargain price of $10.

Live episode launches this Friday!

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The occupants of Night Terrace – an otherwise ordinary suburban terrace house which travels randomly through space and time – are hearing voices! Or at least laughter. And applause. It seems semi-retired adventure scientist Anastasia Black and her companions have landed in a place where the normal rules of logic have been replaced by an ever-increasing spiral of hilarious misunderstandings. Who are these invisible watchers? How does the mysterious little girl fit in? And just what is a “disposable yacht tycoon”?

Situational Awareness is a special episode of Night Terrace, recorded live in front of an audience – and until now, it was only available to backers of our season two Kickstarter campaign. But in the spirit of the Christmas special, it’s set to launch this Friday, December 16 – and you can preorder it now!

Set sometime during the show’s second season, it features the core cast of Jackie Woodburne (Neighbours), Ben McKenzie and Petra Elliott, as well as guest stars Tegan Higginbotham (Whose Line Is It Anyway? Australia), Steven Gates (Tripod), Amanda Buckley (Impromptunes, Impro Melbourne) and Eryn Saunders (Sonnigsburg).

You can score all 40 minutes of live-recorded fun, complete with a laugh track supplied by our wonderful audience, for just $5 – and it’s available for preorder via Gumroad and Bandcamp. Both platforms offer gift purchases, so if you don’t like cluttering up people’s houses with new objects, why not give them the gift of time travel comedy instead?

Night Terrace season two available now!

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Night Terrace Season Two is released today, and is be available now from nightterrace.com and our Bandcamp store!

Night Terrace Season Two album artJackie Woodburne (Neighbours) returns for season two as Dr Anastasia Black, alongside co-stars Petra Elliott as Sue Denholm and Ben McKenzie as Eddie Jones. Eight brand new adventures take them to London 60 years in the past, an impossible spaceship in the far future, a society of endlessly warring fiefdoms and even weirder destinations. But with new housemate Sue proving as capable as Anastasia, is there still a place for Eddie in the Night Terrace? And could it be that after all this time, their adventures might finally come to an end?

As well as the returning cast and crew, the new season features a stellar array of guest stars, including Gary Russell (The Famous Five), Colette Mann (Prisoner), Ian Smith (Neighbours), John Clarke (Clarke & Dawe) and Louise Jameson (Doctor Who) – and that’s just in the first episode! Here’s the full trailer for the season:

To celebrate the launch, we released a new teaser trailer every day from February 22 to 28 – all the work of our genius sound designer, David Ashton of Sample and Hold Studio. You can hear them all below:

 

Season Two release date confirmed: February 29!

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After nearly a year in production, Season Two of Night Terrace will finally be unleashed on the ears of listeners across space and time on a date only a time traveller could love: Monday, the 29th of February! You can hear our brand new season two trailer below:

To celebrate the release, we’re having a launch party in Melbourne! The cast, crew and Kickstarter backers who made Night Terrace will gather to enjoy performances from Adele Scott (Feminerd), Tom Dickins (A Brief Case of Madness), the Adam Rudegeair Trio and our very own Petra Elliott, as well as a few more surprises!

While the launch event is primarily for those involved in Night Terrace,  there are a small number of free tickets available for the general public as well. Head on over to the Bella Union web site to snag yours if you’d like to come along! You’ll be able to buy the season digitally both from our Buy page and from Bandcamp on the day, and we’ll also have a small number of copies available for sale on limited edition USB.

Season two update!

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Recording for season two of Night Terrace is well underway, with six of our eight episodes recorded! Well, mostly recorded. Night Terrace production can be quite timey-wimey, as actor availability leads to gaps to be filled later, but our company actors Dave Lamb and Amanda Buckley are always on hand to fill in a missing voice. Hearing Dave Lamb play a 1950s Tea Lady is… interesting.

Our first recording day saw Lawrence Leung and Mad As Hell’s Emily Taheny joining us, while the second brought us Gary Russell, Jane Badler and Ian Smith. Yes, Harold From Neighbours joined Susan From Neighbours for the time-traveling adventure you’ve always hoped for. And they were all brilliant.
Ben McKenzie, Petra Elliott, Jackie Woodburne and guest star Lawrence Leung in the studio.

One of our other welcome visitors this year has been Madame Fromage, our caterer! Plates of sandwiches, fruit, cheese and cake from Madame Fromage catering.We always stress we can’t make this show without the generosity of our listeners, but Madame Fromage brought crowdfunding to a new level by graciously donating lunch! Not only did this free up our budget to put more money toward hiring actors and studio time, it also gave us more time, since we no longer had to be up late making sandwiches the night before a studio day. (Yes, that’s the glamour of audio comedy production.) We heartily recommend you hire her for your next crowd-funded audio production recording/historical banquet/event.

Our main studio this year has been Bakehouse Studios in Richmond, a massive warren of rooms mostly used as a rehearsal studio. Most musicians in Melbourne have been to Bakehouse at some point, with John and David realising on arrival that they had recorded there 20 years ago when it was Stable Sound. An enormous image of Nick Cave (and The Boys Next Door) greets you as you enter, and by the evening the huge beer-garden-like central courtyard is full of tattooed and pierced musicians. At one point we discovered Frenzal Rhomb were rehearsing in the next studio. We could hear them through the wall of the control room, but we’re confident you won’t in the finished episode!

We then spent some more intimate days at the Sample And Hold studio, with Andrew McClelland and Ming-Zhu Hii joining us for an afternoon of space travel. And then The Chaser’s Andrew Hansen came down from Sydney to record a couple of episodes with us. And a prequel scene. And some webisodes. We may have been out of control. We also made him tell us how great it was to work with us while we recorded him. At that point it had become more of a hostage situation. Andrew Hansen (with a moustache) in the sound booth recording his guest role for Night Terrace

We have one more major studio day left, as well at least two smaller sessions and our live show (September 12! Book those tickets now!), but we have great stuff in the can and we’re looking forward to sharing it with you.

Season two guest star: Dave Callan!

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We’re pleased to announce another of our great guest stars for season two: comedian Dave Callan! Dave will appear in this season’s historical episode, but that’s all we’ll say. No spoilers!

dave-callanFondly remembered for his long stint as “the beardy one with the beautiful accent” on Australian variety shows Rove and Rove Live, Callan is best known as a Triple J DJ – he presents “The Graveyard Shift” from 1 AM on Sundays – and one of Melbourne’s favourite comedians. He’s often on the telly with appearances on Spicks and Specks, the Comedy Festival Gala and Good News Week, as well as being a regular game reviewer on ABC2’s Good Game. He’s performed live comedy at the Edinburgh Fringe and toured Britain, South East Asia, the U.S. and even Hobart.

In recent years he’s departed from regular stand-up to embrace his other love, one he has in common with our mascot, the bilby: dance! His 2014 show A Little Less Conversation was such a hit he’s followed it up with this year’s A Little Less Conversation 2: A Little More Less Conversation, playing at Trades Hall at 9:45 PM (8:45 on Sundays) until the festival ends on April 19.

Dave is not a stranger to voice work; he’s fondly remembered for his segment on Rove Live, “Words That Sound Better When Said By Dave” (for which a Facebook fan page still exists!), and in 2011 played the role of Fergal, a Sea Cucumber who runs an Irish Pub, in the adult animated web series Mollusks, alongside a stellar cast of Sean Micallef, Roz Hammond and Bob Franklin.

So let’s celebrate that beautiful voice with a clip of Dave dancing!

If you want to make sure Dave Callan has his chance to shine in Night Terrace, why not go to Kickstarter right now and become a backer? There are many wonderful rewards on offer, and you won’t have to watch Dave dance again.

A short history of the bilby in dance

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Happy Easter everyone! Did you know that in Australia, wild rabbits are considered a pest, causing considerable harm to farmlands and native wildlife? That’s why we have a movement here to replace bunnies at Easter with bilbies, native marsupial animals which are cuter and kinder to the Australian environment!

We’ve adopted the bilby as a mascot here at Night Terrace, and for the last two years produced some informative videos about them (and the music they enjoy). So please enjoy these videos from this year and last!

…and all that dancing inspired us to celebrate reaching half of our Kickstarter goal in a particular way: thirty second dance party!

Season two guest stars: Gary Russell and Lawrence Leung

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We loved it during season one when we asked people to be in Night Terrace and they enthusiastically said yes – and this season, we have some more great actors and comedians joining us! We’ve already confirmed the return of Virginia Gay (All Saints, Winners and Losers) and Jane Badler (V, Mission: Impossible), and our fantastic ensemble players Dave Lamb (Bell Shakespeare) and Amanda Buckley (Impro Melbourne, Graham Clone: Virtually Live!).

Gary RussellJoining us for the first time, we have Gary Russell! Gary might be best known for his long-time work writing Doctor Who novels and writing and directing audio adventures with Big Finish, but did you know he also played Dick in the television version of The Famous Five??? Amazing!

Gary is no stranger to audio, having appeared in numerous Big Finish productions as various computers, psychic worm and, in one story, “First Yokel”. We won’t say too much about his appearance in season two of Night Terrace, except that he’ll be in the first episode of the season and his character will definitely have a name.

Also joining us for season two is Lawrence Leung! Lawrence is an award-winning stand-up comedian, you might know Lawrence from his ABC1 comedies Choose Your Own Adventure and Unbelievable, or most recently from starring in and writing episodes of Australia’s first kung fu comedy series, Maximum Choppage for ABC2 (still available on iView!).

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Lawrence in ghost busting mode in Maximum Choppage.

Lawrence is currently performing his new stand up show The Escapist at Melbourne International Comedy Festival until April 19. Lawrence may have solved a Rubik’s Cube while skydiving and have a Jedi named after him in a Star Wars comic, but he’s never travelled through time and space with Susan from Neighbours, so we’re happy to give him a new opportunity for geekery! Though we’ll keep the nature of his role a secret for now…

Watch out for more guest star announcements in the near future!