Season 2
8 episodes · Sep 6, 2012
Alex Burchill writes the Lowdown column for struggling tabloid newspaper, the Sunday Sun. Circulation is in decline and the paper is downsizing and adapting to the brutal economic climate, and Alex's methods for unearthing stories become increasingly desperate. Each week he must come up with a shock-and-awe story for the embattled paper, and each week that shock-and-awe story somehow ruins his own life.
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S2E1Pretty Pollie
Sep 6, 2012Alex has a chance to impress the new editor of the Sunday Sun when some erotic photos of the morally conservative Minister for Families fall into his lap.
S2E2Hack in Business
Sep 13, 2012After missing out on the biggest story of the year, Alex has a chance to redeem himself by entrapping a fornicating film director. But a road rage incident throws a spanner in the works.
S2E3One Fine Gay
Sep 20, 2012Alex is commandeered into ghost-writing a controversial column for a high profile footballer who has decided to come out.
S2E4Rex, Lies and Videotape
Sep 27, 2012When Alex is assigned to interview highly volatile actor Lachlan Reid, he goes out of his way to antagonise Reid in the hope of getting a rise worth reporting.
S2E5A Bollywood Ending
Oct 4, 2012Alex is charged with locating the spurned lover of Australian test cricket captain Mark Hardy, and convincing her to grant an exclusive interview to the Sunday Sun.
S2E6Bubble Trouble
Oct 11, 2012When one of the journalists invited to spend the night in the share-house of reality show 'Life in a Bubble' is found stabbed to death, Alex becomes the prime suspect.
S2E7The Naked Chef
Oct 18, 2012When a celebrity chef insults Alex's new girlfriend on national television, Alex and Bob set up an elaborate News of the World-type sting to expose the chef cheating on his wife with a wannabe actress.
S2E8Ben Behaving Badly
Oct 25, 2012When Bob inadvertently snaps a compromising photo of singer/actor Ben Hollander, Alex and Bob decide to capitalise on it as revenge for Hollander running up a massive tab on Alex's credit card.