“Finally, a Show About Men!,” an Australian short-form animated sketch comedy satirizing modern masculinity, premieres Sunday on Aunty Donna’s Grouse House YouTube channel from Gold Coast’s Sad Man Studio.
The series is produced by husbands Samuel Leighton-Dore, who also serves as writer, and Bradley Tennant, with backing from Screen Queensland’s Online Production Grants. The pair co-direct the studio.
“With ‘Finally, a Show About Men!,’ we wanted to create something emotionally honest, globally recognizable, and genuinely funny while exploring masculinity as both deeply human and slightly absurd,” Leighton-Dore said. “The series comes from a fascination with the contradictions of modern manhood – how performative, vulnerable, lonely, and theatrical it can be all at once. Animation gave us a way to approach those ideas through satire, surrealism, and heightened worlds that still feel emotionally truthful.”
The debut episode, “A Scrum Is A Safe Space,” is rugby-themed. Leighton-Dore and Tennant previously produced animated short film “Sensitive Gym Bros” and co-created animated sitcom “Willy,” now in development at Ludo Studio – the production company behind “Bluey” – and slated for a graphic novel release through Penguin Random House.
