Utopia (2014)

The Australian answer to the Whitehall comedy, from Working Dog's Rob Sitch, Santo Cilauro and Tom Gleisner. Sitch plays Tony, head of the Nation Building Authority, a new government body meant to oversee major infrastructure, who is permanently exasperated by the people around him and the announcements forced on him. It is drier and kinder than The Thick of It, and the joke is how familiar it all feels: grand projects that exist mainly as press releases and meetings that go nowhere at length. Five seasons ran on the ABC from 2014 to 2023, and it won the AACTA Award for Best Television Comedy Series in 2015. Netflix picked up the first two seasons under the title Dreamland.