Channel Chaos

{{Use dmy dates|date=March 2025}} {{Use Australian English|date=July 2015}} {{Infobox film | name = Channel Chaos | image =

| caption = | director = Barry Peak | producer = Chris Kiely | writer = Barry Peak<br>Chris Kieley | based_on = | narrator = | starring = Jay Hackett<br>Tim Scally<br>Lyn Semmler | music = | cinematography = Malcolm Richards | editing = | studio = Hatful Productions | distributor = THG Video (video) | released = {{Film date|1985}} | runtime = 90 minutes | country = Australia | language = English | budget = A$400,000<ref name="stratton2">David Stratton, ''The Avocado Plantation: Boom and Bust in the Australian Film Industry'', Pan MacMillan, 1990 p334-225</ref> | gross = }} '''''Channel Chaos''''' is a 1985 Australian film set at a TV station.<ref>Scott Murray, ''Australia on the Small Screen 1970-1995'', Oxford Uni Press, 1996 p25</ref>

==Cast== * Jay Hackett * Tim Scally * Lyn Semmler * Peter Moon as Dick Jones * Tiriel Mora as Police Officer

==Plot== The actors of the TV series ''Copfile'' investigate when their scriptwriter is killed.

==Production== The film was the second of four movies made by the team of Barry Peak and Chris Kiely who ran the Valhalla Cinemas in Sydney and Melbourne. The movie was known in production as ''A Hatful of Arseholes'' and the budget was raised through 10BA. Peak and Kiely hated the movie when they finished and decided not to screen it in their own cinema.<ref name="stratton2"/>

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==External links== *{{IMDb title|id=0123656}}

Category:Australian comedy films Category:1985 English-language films Category:1985 comedy films Category:1985 Australian films Category:English-language comedy films