Hold onto your Akubras because it looks like season two of the Paramount+ Original Series The Betoota Advocate is coming!
During an interview with Mediaweek and Chattr’s The Entertainment Hotline podcast, Editors at Large Errol Parker (Charles Single) and Clancy Overell (Archer Hamilton) revealed that the streaming service was ready to green-light another instalment of the show.
“Paramount+ have all but to confirm that there will be a second season,” Overell admitted, before giving an inside scoop on what we can expect.
“I think we might push it out a bit more,” he said. “Obviously this season tells a lot of wild stories from Queensland and the 1980s and early 2000s Sydney. I reckon we could have a lot of fun in the backcountry of Tasmania.
“I reckon there are a lot of stories that haven’t been told in Western Australia. They sit there, they get away with a lot. You know what I mean? Who the hell knows what’s happened in Western Australia over the years.”
How does The Betoota Advocate get their controversial topics approved?
So far, the series has covered the rise and fall of Hillsong, the Super League War and on June 28, the Cronulla Riots, where the co-hosts will take us through a day in 2005 when the beachside suburb made international headlines, while even putting Australia on the don’t travel to list.
Given that the topics they cover in the Paramount+ Original Series — and on their highly popular Instagram The Betoota Advocate — are often controversial, both Parker and Overell admit that lawyers are heavily involved.
“Legally speaking, we’ve got lawyers who will tell us what is illegal and what will result in people getting sued,” Overell said while adding that as far as tastefulness goes, they “bounce that off each other.”
“You need a diverse group of people to do that with, you can’t just have a bunch of blokes saying, ‘I think everyone will find that funny’. You should ask around a little bit, which is what we do.”
Even though it’s hard to comprehend otherwise, Overell said that they’re not “aiming to narrate people’s lives”, even if it can feel that way.
“What that tells us when people have that response is, well, your life is very similar to the people we write about, or indeed ourselves.”
Listen to the full interview with The Betoota Advocate Presents on The Entertainment Hotline podcast below:
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