Jaquie Brown Odyssey, The (The Jaquie Brown Diaries Season 2)
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Synopsis
More trials and tributlations of a C-grade celebrity struggling to find her place in the media world.

Jaquie Brown is hungry for fame and prepared to do whatever it takes to get there but she is constantly thwarted by her slightly prettier, slightly funnier and vastly more popular nemesis ‘Serita Singh.’ This second series offers a more significant narrative arc to keep viewers hooked over the course of the season, as Jaquie is cast out from the comfy confines of her regular network slot and struggles to revive her career in the celebrity wasteland of corporate radio and reality television. Since losing her job on McHuntly at 7 for trying to get Serita fired, Jaquie has hit rock bottom. Her and Tom have traded their Cox’s bay dream home for a crappy inner city apartment and she has been whoring her celebrity status to a carpet factory to pay the bills. Meanwhile Serita has gone on to become one of TV3’s most valued assets, has her own show coming out and a top ten single. Jaquie’s only chance to climb back up the media ladder is a co-hosting gig in midday radio show with the equally bitter and even more disgruntled James Coleman. Working with James is a nightmare and Jaquie is desperate to get back on TV, but even with the help of friend and publicist Kim Sharee, the opportunities seem few and far between.

Duration
8 x 30'
Definition
HD
Genre
Comedy
Subgenre
Series
Producer
Young, Gifted & Brown
Awards

Best Comedy - NZ Film & TV Awards 2009 & 2010 Best Local Show - NZ Herald & Metro Magazine Best Comedy Series - The Listener Best Director - NZ Film & TV Awards 2010

Press
‘The best show on TV’ Sunday Magazine The Boston Globe The Sunday Star Times The Dominion Daily Fix ‘This chick rocks’ Sunday News ‘Like Seinfeld, the Jaquie Brown Diaries is a morality play for our times’ The Listener ‘Logo’s wry Jaquie Brown Diaries tops what passes for comedy on the networks’ ‘I watched two episodes and nearly fell off my chair laughing. It’s a very sharp satire on fame and celebrity’ ‘The comic timing and the dialogue are edgily perfect’ ‘Brilliantly witty, top notch local masterpiece’