Is Long Head the next Bluey?

🎧 PODCAST GUESTS: Dan Ilic, Lewis Hobba, and Millie Holten

G’day Fearmongers,

We have a very different episode of the podcast this week — we’re throwing out the rule book to bring a conversation with Millie Holten (Instagram), the brilliant creator of a new web series that is doing huge numbers on TikTok called Long Head.

Millie Holten and her creation Long Head.

Starring the incredible voices of incredible comedians Kate Dehnert, Tom Walker and Sam Campbell as the titular Long Head.

The Age and Sydney Morning Herald called it “Mr Bean for the TikTok generation”.

It’s a very strange and stupid series. A radical departure from the usual biting satire that folks subscribe to A Rational Fear for. Long Head is refreshingly delightful.

Long Head got an amazing write-up in The Age’s Green Guide this week.

LISTEN TO THE PODCAST HERE:

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How did we manage to book Millie? Well Dear Listener — I am the executive producer of the series — so this email is what the National Anti-Corruption Commission would call a gross compliment of interest.

Watch episode 1 on TikTok:

@thisislongheadOh brother, how's Long Head going to get out of this one? #sketchcomedy#samcampbell#australiancomedy#cartoon#adultswim#darkcomedy#shortanimation#animation

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EPISODE 1 | EPISODE 2 | EPISODE 3 | EPISODE 4 | EPISODE 5 | EPISODE 6

Behind the scenes:

Millie and I have been working on this show since 2022, and we’re so stoked that the world can finally see it. Of course — I did nothing really, mainly admin — we actually made it with a really talented team of animators including Dale Anderson, Michael Harris, and animation director Annabelle Ots.

And we were lucky enough to record the sound and have it expertly crafted and designed by Matt Perrott’s Mighty Sound in Sydney.

Tom Walker, Kate Dehnert (on Zoom), Sam Campbell and Millie Holten in the Mighty Sound studios laying down the Long Head voice tracks.

The whole series was generously paid for by … you the taxpayer. More specifically Screen Australia supported the project — thank you, Screen Australia!

We’d love you to watch it, and share it with your friends and family who are on TikTok. And if you know any big wigs in showbiz, please send it to them too.

WATCH IT ON TIKTOK HERE

We think it could be the next Bluey — we want American kids to walk around talking like Sam Campbell.

Cheers,
Dan Ilic

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