Pitch Perfect: The Growth of Gruen and the Case for Serious Entertainment

From Transfer and Nation to Sweat and Planet, ABC's Gruen franchise has been prompting debate and peeling back media spin since 2008. Liz Giuffre spoke to Gruen co-creator Jon Casimir about working on one of the most interesting and hard-to-define shows on Australian television.

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