Entertainment 8x30’

CROSSING BORDERS. THEN CROSSING THE LINE.

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Award-winning comic John Safran (JOHN SAFRAN’S MUSICJAMBOREE, JOHN SAFRAN vs GOD) is back for his most daring and personal adventure yet – about cross-cultural, interracial andinterfaith love.

Today, chances are high that someone you get a crush on at school,meet at a club or get chatting to at the photocopier will not be fromyour tribe. Some say ‘love will conquer all’, but John suspects that itis not that simple.

To explore this theory, he launches himself into an insane,globetrotting odyssey which takes him to Israel, Palestine, Togo,Japan, the Philippines, Thailand, the UK, the Netherlands and the USA to find out when it comes to love, should you stick with yourtribe or escape your tribe?

On his quest to find the answer, John pushes boundaries and comesup with some of his craziest, most confronting television ever. For example, in the USA he engages in a hands-on circumcisionreversal; he sets off to Thailand where Tiffany’s Lady Boy Show helpsto transform him into an Asian woman, he visits Hamas, Fatah andPalestinian TV testing out a musical performance of Fiddler on theRoof in the face of militant Anti-Semitism, and in the final episode he participates in his most dangerous and outrageous adventure yet,a real-life crucifixion – all in an attempt to make sense of cross-cultural love. But does he come back with the answers he seeks?

Crossing borders. Then crossing the line!

DIRECTOR Craig MelvilleWRITERS John Safran, Sofija StefanovicPRODUCERS Laura Waters, John SafranEXECUTIVE PRODUCERS Laura Waters (Princess Pictures), Debbie Lee (ABC)PRODUCTION COMPANY Princess Pictures, Australian Broadcasting Corporation Duration 8x30’