Now the show is screening around the world, including New Zealand, the US, Canada, South Africa, Ireland and Scandinavia.

Everytime I see Pru and Tru, I can feel the jokes flying over my head, what is so funny about these two women, what are those accents all about, is this an australian thing?

Didn't Brett play the tuxedo rental guy in an episode?

It's funny--I've never been to Australia in my life, don't really know any Australian people and don't know the first thing about Australian social culture, yet I've been absolutely MAD for Kath and Kim since the first time I saw it. I LOVE Pru and Trude, I LOVE "Lookit mway, lookit mway...", I love the way Kath and Kim dress, I love how everyone is so convinced of their own hotness...even though there are cultural references that fly over my head (inevitably), I just love it. I think that American suburban culture has a lot of silmilarities.

All the characters in K&K - with the exception of Kim, who as far as I can see doesn't have a single redeeming quality! - are actually very sweet, and as a viewer, I want them to succeed.

Prue and Trude are caricatures of a certain type of Australian woman who most likely lives in a wealthy suburb such as Toorak, South Yarra or Malvern in Melbourne, or on Sydney's North Shore.

NBC is doing an American version. I hope it's as good as the office and not bad like 'Coupling'.

The best part of the show is the total lack of vanity in the actors. Kim's half shirts and thongs. Kel's jogging outfits. Sharon's various skin disorders. Kath's crowning glory. And the whole episode where Kath and Kel go nudist. Aye carumba, TV doesn't get funnier than that.

when Sharon riverdances in that horrible green velvet dress. Genius.

I almost hope that they don't attempt to do a U.S. version of this -- I think it would be pretty much unrecognizable and without the two leads, I just can't imagine it working.

STAGE mums are on high alert now that casting agent Cameron Harris is seeking a bub to play Kath & Kim darling Epponnee Rae, daughter of Kim (Gina Riley). The young actress should be 10-13 months and have a gorgeous round face, brown hair and blue eyes, and the stage mum shouldn't be too high maintenance (if that is possible). Cameron is holding private auditions to prevent frenzied queues of well-fed mums in G-string-revealing jeans snaking around Fountain Gate Shopping Centre. Can you imagine the ruckus: "Look at moi, look at moi, darling! Smile for the man! Now!"

I assume this means they're making a new series?! Or a least a special?

Kath and Kim said they were looking forward to returning to Seven, as its canteen food was far superior.

"Seven's promised us we're going to be in the stable and Kim belongs in a stable," Kath said. "We did our fair share of schmoozing. We were just entertaining CEOs with cardonnay and nibbles. I think when we got Kerry Stokes in the spa at the Buckingham and he was legless, literally – that was the clincher. They're paying us literally hundreds of dollars per episode. (The ABC) could only afford $10."

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The new series, screening later this year, will see the Melbourne suburban divas take a holiday to warmer climes and search for a school for Kim's "gifted" toddler Epony [sic] Rae.

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Confirmed guests for the new series include Shane Warne and comedian Matt Lucas from Little Britain. Other big names are being chased.

"We couldn't let Sharon near Warney basically because she just wanted to see his flipper and he didn't want to expose it," Kath said. [but see article below]

The would-be empty-nester said the celebrity she would most love to meet would be Chris de Burgh. "He won't return my calls," she said. "Maybe it's because I called him Chris de Bird. Maybe he was offended."

Kim said she would like to diversify into a Jerry Springer-style show, while Kath planned to go on Dancing with the Stars "as Pauline Hanson".

Regular cast members Magda Subanszki [sic], Glenn Robbins and Peter Rowsthorn also will return for the fourth series.

Warnie weds sporting tragic Sharon Strezlecki, played by Magda Szubanski, in the next series and filmed his romantic turn at St Kilda's Luna Park in Melbourne yesterday.

The cricket legend has been referred to as Sharon's "unrequited love'' in previous episodes, but in a plot twist, Strezlecki is forced to wrestle her "dream man" from best friend Kim Craig.

While the happy couple wore matching bridal whites during the hilarious ceremony, Kimmy, aka actor Gina Riley, told The Daily Telegraph the marriage was "a dream come true - for Shane, that is."

"He's really lucky to have met a couple of foxymorons like us,'' she said.

Following in the stilleto footsteps of Kylie Minogue, who walked down the aisle in the last series, Warne bowls Strezlecki over, throwing her an engagement ring instead of a cricket ball.

Producers had teased fans on the show's website with the promise of more wedding bells in the new series ("or was that the callipers from Sharon's clicky hips?''), but had hoped to keep Warne's appearance a secret. However, as filming began locals were quickly in on the joke and a show spokesman confirmed the happy news.

KATH & Kim's hunka-spunk butcher Kel Knight, played by the equally meaty Glenn Robbins, is rolling out his tasty sausages for the next series, the crew filming at the Prahran Market while it was closed. Shaggy-haired chef Shannon Bennett, the whiz at Vue de Monde, was also seen in the deserted aisles, so it must mean he's making a cameo as a famous chef who stocks up on Kel's famous snags.

The girls from Fountain Lakes booked into the Hyatt Coolum resort, along with Kel, Bretty, Sharon and baby Epponnee Rae -- and they loved it.

"I've never been anywhere so ritzy before but Kel is doing very well at the moment in the meat industry," said matriarch Kath, in an aquamarine and lime patterned resort-wear dress. "We've enjoyed it so much -- Kel and I are reliving our honeymoon and we joined the mile-high club on the way up here on Qantas just like Ralph Fiennes."

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Meanwhile Kim, sporting blonde streaks, made a beeline for the buffet: "I'm so impressed with the bain-marie -- I had bacon, hash browns, baked beans, eggs florentine, I mean benedictine, all on the same plate. Now that's a holiday."

Kath interrupted to say her daughter has "stacked it on -- she's put on 5kg and we've only been here one day. And that muffin top of hers is turning into the Michelin man."

So then, quick question - has Sundance effectively dropped the show, or are they just on a break? I heard so much about Kath & Kim from family in Australia, and when the show finally came to the states, I didn't realise it. Then I caught the Kylie Minogue episode, and was excited that I would finally get to see what all the fuss about. And now the show isn't on Sundance's schedule.