Back to the Drawing Board

If there are two larrikins in Australia that are more so than Hamish Blake and Andy Lee, please let me know.

After short stints on the square-box (short, because most efforts fell flat faced) their latest show “Hamish and Andy’s Gap Year” was going to go the way of the flip of a coin, and if critics and the tellings of the past had their way, this would have been a coin with a tail on each side.

While the first show was about as disastrous as a donkey in a horse race, lacking the affability and humour we have all known to come and love of these guys from their radio show, it seemed that this was a failed risk that didn’t pan out on Channel Nine’s behalf who reportedly paid both Blake and Lee 17 Million to sign with their channel.

However some things (and people) are slow starters and apparently this programme was no exception. The succeeding episodes have improved much to the relief of their fans (and the execs at Channel Nine) by providing more recorded footage of them in the streets and showing off the city in a light only Aussies can.

With their quirky segments and natural humour that comes from being casual rather than interviewing celebrities it seems that going back to the drawing board for Hamish and Andy has worked a treat, saving them from the fate of  a same sided coin that the  critics were tossing.