Sit Down, Shut Up (2001 TV series)

This article is about the original Australian television series. For the American remake, see Sit Down, Shut Up (2009 TV series).

Sit Down, Shut Up is a short-lived Australian sitcom broadcast by Network Ten. It ran from 16 February 2001 until 28 June 2001 for a total of 13 episodes.

Sit Down, Shut Up
Genre	Sitcom
Created by	Tim McLoughlan Brendan Reed
Starring	Marg Downey Stephen Curry Jacqueline Brennan Christopher Brown
Country of origin	Australia
No. of seasons	1
No. of episodes	13
Production
Running time	30 minutes
Original release
Network	Network Ten
Release	16 February (2001-02-16) – 28 June 2001 (2001-06-28)
Related
Sit Down Shut Up (American series)

The series followed the staff and students at a dysfunctional fictional high school called Carpen Heights Secondary College, and focused on the life of the teachers in and out of the staff room.

A writer for the series claimed that producer/comedian Chris Lilley had borrowed ideas for characters and plots from Sit Down, Shut Up for his 2007 series Summer Heights High. The ideas Lilley reportedly borrowed included the school's name and aspects of the Mr G character.^[1][2]

Cast

• Marg Downey as Sue Dirkin
• Stephen Curry as Stuart Mill
• Jacqueline Brennan as Helen Peters
• Christopher Brown as Brent Townsend-Ross
• Jodie Dry as Julia Denholm-Ponsford
• Paul Gleeson as Felix Sedgely
• Tayler Kane as Stefan Ravazzi
• Tim McLoughlan as Chaps
• Brendan Reed as Dean Tate
• Bernard Curry as Greg Ilyich

American remake

Main article: Sit Down, Shut Up (2009 TV series)

In 2009, an animated remake of the series titled Sit Down, Shut Up aired on Fox, premiering on 19 April 2009.^[3] This American version featured the voices of Henry Winkler, Will Arnett, Jason Bateman, Will Forte, Kenan Thompson, and Cheri Oteri, Nick Kroll, and Kristin Chenoweth. It was developed by Mitchell Hurwitz, the creator of Arrested Development. Former Simpsons writer Josh Weinstein acted as showrunner.^[4] The series received lackluster reviews and was pulled from FOX's Sunday night lineup after four episodes. The program aired all of its episodes when FOX put Sit Down Shut Up on late-night Saturday. Sit Down Shut Up then aired on Comedy Central (in reruns, initially a number of times throughout the day).