Very Small Business is an Australian television comedy series first broadcast on Wednesday 3 September 2008 on ABC1. The series is written and created by Wayne Hope, Gary McCaffrie, and Robyn Butler, and produced by Hope and Butler. It comprises fourteen half-hour episodes.
A new season began screening in September 2018 titled Back in Very Small Business. It comprises six half-hour episodes.
Synopsis Don Angel is the small business owner of the Worldwide Business Group. The business includes the publishing of controversial magazines such as Feelin' Great, Railway Union Monthly, and Music, Music, Music, Music, which are methods leveraged to sell advertising space to unsuspecting businesses. Angel hired Ray Leonard, a down-and-out former journalist for The Australian, as his senior journalist and sole employee.
Cast Wayne Hope as Don Angel / Marcus Goode / James White / Haydn King / Kerry Akermanis / Pete Mandela Kym Gyngell as Ray Leonard Leonard / Harvey Bunning Roman Hadley-Lund as Leslie Leonard Queenie van de Zandt as Tina Geoff Paine as Lloyd Molly Daniels as Sam Angel Sally Cooper as Janet Wilson Elena Mandalis as Olivia Micheledes Marg Downey as Yvonne Steve Mouzakis as Dr Rolf Aaron Chen as Kim Park Brian Vriends as Jerome Jeremy Kewley as Ron Greally Katerina Kotsonis as Blanca Ian Bliss as Tony Orsini David James as Sol Dolman Beejan Land as Lynton McGyver Neil Pigot as Radio Announcer Jane Harber as Coco
Episodes
Season 1 "Very Small Business"
Season 2 "Back in Very Small Business"
DVD release
Very Small Business Set Details Special Features 6 Episodes 16:9 Aspect Ratio 1.78:1 Fullframe Subtitles: No English (2.0 Dolby) Total running time: Approx 158 minutes Don's Essentials of Small Business Ray's Cognitive Behaviour Challenges Don's Job Interviews (Roz Hammond, Bob Franklin & Tony Martin) Ray's Other Advertorials Don's Colonoscopy Don's Business Insider Interview 8 Deleted Scenes Making of Very Small Business Out Takes
See also List of Australian television series List of programs broadcast by ABC (Australian TV network) The Librarians
References
External links (No longer in use) Very Small Business on ABC TV