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No Activity is currently airing on BBC TWO. Click here for the schedule.

Two episodes are already available on BBC iPlayer, along with a host of clips.

The six part Australian comedy series, stars Patrick Brammall and Darren Gilshenan. It follows two police detectives, Hendy and Stokes, killing time on a stakeout, waiting for something to happen. It doesn’t. Genevieve Morris and Harriet Dyer are unlikely dispatch officers, Carol and April, while Dan Wylie, David Field and Sam Simmons make up the disorganised crime element.

Tim plays Jacob, a security guard working at the docks, tasked with looking out for anything unusual, so he can tip off the cops.

No Activity first aired in Australia on Stan in October 2015.

Tim’s signed a major production deal with Foxtel and today, along with Screen Australia, they announced his starring role in UPRIGHT, a landmark co-production with Sky UK.. He’s co-producing, writing the music and co-writing the script for the eight-part series, sure to resonate with Australian and international viewers.

Tim: “From the moment I heard about the idea for UPRIGHT, I knew it was the show I’d been waiting to make. I like stories that make me laugh and think and cry, I adore the landscapes of outback Australia, and I love music, and homecomings, and characters full of flaws. It’s awesome to be writing with this extraordinary team, and I’m looking forward to acting alongside Milly Alcock, who I think is a really special talent.”

There’s a stellar team behind UPRIGHT, including the creator Chris Taylor (The Chaser) with whom Tim is writing the series alongside award-winning writer-actors Kate Mulvany (Fighting Season, Jasper Jones stage play) and Leon Ford (Offspring, No Activity). The Director is Matthew Saville (Please Like Me). Tim is Executive Producer with Penny Win and Helen Bowden. Producers are Lingo Pictures’ Jason Stephens, Chris Taylor and Melissa Kelly (Hounds of Love).

UPRIGHT tells the story of two misfits, thrown together by chance in the middle of the Australian desert, who forge the unlikeliest of bonds in their quest to get a precious piano from one side of the country to the other.

Lucky Flynn (Tim) hasn’t spoken to his family in years. He’s broke, distant and damaged. He’s also a gifted pianist, whose talent for music is matched only by his talent for self-destruction. When he learns that his mother has only days left to live, Lucky sets off in a hire car to drive the 4000 kilometres from Sydney to Perth to say goodbye to her, taking with him his only cherished possession in the world – a battered and scarred upright piano. But what should have been a straightforward drive across the Nullarbor soon becomes a test of Lucky’s emotional fitness, when he (quite literally) runs into Meg (Milly Alcock), a hilarious, tough-as-nails teenager, who we soon discover has plenty of scars and secrets of her own.

Production will begin in South Australia and Western Australia in October.

UPRIGHT is a Lingo Pictures production for Foxtel and Sky UK, with major production investment from Foxtel and Screen Australia in association with the South Australian Film Corporation. Financed with support from Create NSW and Screenwest. Rest of world sales are being handled by eOne.

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There’s a new trailer out for the Robin Hood movie, with a few more glimpses of Tim as Friar Tuck:

If you don’t use Facebook you can find the trailer on Twitter or YouTube.

Directed by Otto Bathurst and filmed in Croatia and Hungary, Robin Hood is a gritty new take on the classic story.

Taron Egerton will play Robin Hood, with Jamie Foxx as Little John, Eve Hewson as Maid Marian, Jamie Dornan as Will Scarlet and Ben Mendelsohn as Sheriff of Nottingham.

IMDb: A war-hardened Crusader and his Moorish commander mount an audacious revolt against the corrupt English crown in a thrilling action-adventure packed with gritty battlefield exploits, mind-blowing fight choreography, and a timeless romance.

The film hits movie theatres November 2018.

ABC has released Matilda & Me to rent or buy on iTunes in the UK and Ireland!

UK: https://ab.co/MatildaandMeiTunesUK 
Ireland: https://ab.co/MatildaandMeiTunesIre

Narrated by Tim’s sister Nel, who co-directed with Rhian Skirving, Matilda & Me tells the story of Tim’s journey with Matilda The Musical to the Sydney Lyric Theatre. The doco includes a mix of rare family footage, interviews, musical performance and Australian Matilda The Musical rehearsals. More details here.

Matilda & Me is already available on DVD in the UK and DVD and iTunes in Australia.

Tim’ll be sitting down with Andrew Denton on Channel 7’s “Interview” next Tuesday 3rd July at 8:45pm.

This is the second time Tim’s been interviewed by Andrew, the first being back in 2008. Tune in to see what they talk about after an eventful 10 year interval. There’s a piano so it’s a safe bet that Tim will be hitting the keys.

Alternatively, you can watch the programme live online here and you’ll be able to catch-up on 7Plus here, shortly after it airs.

UPDATE (03/07/18): To clarify – Interviews with Tim AND Guy Pearce will be shown tonight.

Tim: “I’m looking forward to sitting on top of a mountain in the middle of New South Wales and stargazing with my favourite astrophysicist. We might even play a song or two.”

Tim will be joining Professor Brian Cox, Julia Zemiro and a team of scientists and space enthusiasts on Tuesday May 22nd for ABC’s 2018 Stargazing Live.

Broadcasting live around the country from Australian National University’s Siding Spring Observatory (SSO) in New South Wales, the programme will air across three nights on ABC and ABC iview at 8.00pm AEST, 7.30pm ACST, and 6pm AWST on 22nd, 23rd and 24th May 2018.

Stargazing Live will also be streamed live on the ABC TV YouTube channel and ABC TV Facebook page.

You’ll find heaps more information, images, ways to watch and get involved on the Stargazing Live website: abc.net.au/stargazing.

#StargazingABC

UPDATE:
Episode 1 is now available on ABC iview, but only for a month, until 22nd June, 2018.

Here’s Tim talking about what it’s like to play in the big telescope in Siding Spring:

UPDATE-2 04/06/18)
Tim popped into the Cosmic Vertigo | Stargazing Special podcast to talk about what gives him cosmic vertigo. You can download or subscribe here.
Tim: “[It’s] a sense of bigness and smallness at the same time. When you contemplate the cosmos you feel tiny. But somehow… it makes you feel huge. You feel emboldened by it.”

Photo by Anthony Harvey for The Old Vic

Announced today: Tim will play a couple of songs as part of The Old Vic Theatre’s Bicentenary Variety Night on Saturday 12th May.

The auditorium will be transformed into a cabaret space reminiscent of The Old Vic’s days as a Music Hall in the 1880s. For full line-up details and Tickets click here.

Update: SOLD OUT

Tim will be giving an exclusive solo performance at Dark Mofo on Tuesday 19th June, 2018. This will be his first Hobart show since 2011 with the Tasmania Symphony Orchestra and his first Tasmanian solo show since 2009!

Tuesday 19th June, 2018
7:30pm (Doors 6:30pm)
Odeon Theatre, Hobart
$49-$79 + booking fee

Tickets go on sale at 11am (AEST) Friday 4th May here
Snap them up as they’re sure to fly!

Here’s Tim to tell you all about it and to show you around his studio:

The Program is out now at darkmofo.net.au/program

UPDATE: This show sold out in about 15 minutes! They’ve added a second show waiting list via the ticket link above, so sign up to wait for news.

UPDATE 2: Both shows – 18th and 19th June, 2018, have SOLD OUT. No more shows will be added.

Tim was at the 2018 Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) Music Awards at the International Convention Centre, in Sydney, this week.

In keeping with the APRA Music Awards tradition, artists put their own spin on the songs nominated in the coveted peer-voted APRA Song of the Year category. Tim performed Paul Kelly and Billy Miller’s Song of the Year winning Firewood and Candles live, with a seven piece band.

The Band:

Tim – Piano
Ben Vanderwal – Drums
Jak Housden – Guitar
James Haselwood – Bass
Ken Allars – Trumpet
Mike Raper – Trombone
Steve Fitzmaurice – Alto/Bari Saxes

There’s a little pre show interview with Tim here.