Lowdown S01E01

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Love-rats, sports cheats, drunken escapades, mob-men, fallen idols and sizzling starlets — celebrity scandal makes great copy. For more than a decade, Adam Zwar was a showbiz journalist and columnist for the Sunday Herald Sun. During that time he spent a week holed up in a Stuttgart hotel with AC/DC, was threatened by Sting and had his tape recorder thrown out a window by an irate Billy Idol. Add to this illustrious roll call of characters Will Ferrell, Tommy Lee, Jack Black, Shania Twain, Matthew McConaughey and a host of Aussie celebs – including Stephen Curry, whose small toe Adam broke at Sydney airport.

Collaborating with AFI award winning director, Amanda Brotchie, Adam has muscled stories inspired from the mean streets of celebrity reporting into Lowdown, a show that lifts the lid on the inner-workings of a celebrity gossip hound. The 8 x 30mins TV series is narrated by Academy Award winner Geoffrey Rush and shines a spotlight on the life of a man whose job it is to feed the public's insatiable appetite for celebrity gossip; a man who'll risk life and limb to secure every scandalous scoop.

Adam plays Alex Burchill, the author of the Lowdown column which appears in the once great but now ailing tabloid newspaper. Each week Alex interviews celebrities for his column, and each week at least one of those celebrities ruins his week. Sometimes the celebrity gets drunk and punches Alex out. Sometimes the celebrity gets him arrested. Usually the celebrity sleeps with his girlfriend, Rita. It may not sound like much of a life, but it invariably leads to great copy and the readers love it. In fact, it's the only thing standing between the Sunday Sun and oblivion.

So why is this news? Well Rita - a top young installation artist known for her daring, autobiographical work such as "Teenage Bedroom", which contained knick knacks from her teenage years including the cardigan she was wearing when she lost her virginity, complete with grass clippings and semen stains- is played by Beth Buchanan. Even if the name is unfamiliar, the face will not be; especially if you was watching Aussie soap Neighbours in the early 90's where Gemma Ramsay was the emotionally troubled, moral high-ground taking and environmentally concerned vet of choice for all discerning adolescents in Erinsborough. Who was to guess that after two decades of relative anonymity she would turn up again, only this time tastefully nude and learning the principles of tantric sex?



Television Series: Lowdown (S01E01)
Release Date: April 2010
Actress: Beth Buchanan
Video Clip Credit: Atefooterz
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