On The Telly

Lawrence played a guest role on Network Ten’s Offspring as obstetrician Elvis Kwan. His parents were proud he was finally became a doctor.

Lawrence plays against type as Jasper – the rude owner of a “Melbourne hipster cafe”.

In episode 2 of Channel Nine’s successful TV drama series House Husbands, Kane (Gyton Grantley) seeks a job at Jasper’s Cafe but is knocked back by Jasper (Lawrence) who is less than impressed and more concerned with checking his tweets. Later, he comes back to the cafe offering to sell Jasper a consignment of his homemade specialty: “Kane’s Pies”.

Lawrence’s disillusioned pie eating reached 1.2million viewers. Logie for Most Unconvincing Hipster, anyone?

Lawrence sat in a chair to reveal, confess, squirm and laugh at the awkward rites of passage that make up the modern Australian male in the new 6-part ABC1 series AGONY UNCLES.

Described as “Wrong. Inappropriate. Confessional. Illuminating”, the embarrassingly honest talking-head series invited some of Australia’s wittiest and wisest (?) celebrity gents to “put their reputations on the line to tell you what it’s really like to be single, cohabitate, marry, divorce and then be single again in the 21st century”. The result is a fun program that might help clueless guys out (and help women avoid such guys).

A year and a half ago, series creator Adam Zwar (Wilfred, Lowdown) grilled Lawrence on his thoughts on the do’s and don’ts of picking-up, falling in love and getting his heart broken. Lawrence considers his advice to be more in the “this is what you should NOT do” camp and regrets recalling some of the embarrassing anecdotes he bared to the nation.

The other AGONY UNCLES include Waleed Aly (broadcaster, academic), Adam Elliot (Academy Award winning animator), father & son John/Tom Elliott, Kick Gurry, Ed Kavalee (actor, TV host), Andrew Knight (screenwriter, producer), Josh Lawson (actor, screenwriter) and Lawrence Mooney (comedian) who many think stole the show with his infectious laughter and self-deprecation.

It was screened Wednesdays on 9:30 ABC1 in Australia during March/April, 2012.

The 2-Disc DVD of the Complete Series is packed with 269min of goodies:

Hilarious deleted & extended scenes, more mum & dad out-takes, music video & karaoke videos and Lawrence’s “How to Solve the Rubik’s Cube” Tutorial – an epic step-by-step feature that is so long and obsessively detailed it could only fit on a separate disc. You will either fall asleep watching it or end up finally solving your Cube!

DVD is available in shops or BUY DVD Online at ABC Shop

DVD signings (in 2009)

Lawrence is making some in-store appearances at ABC shops around the country if you want him to scribble his name all over your new DVDs:

Friday May 8th, 2009 – 12.30PM ABC Shop QVB Building NSW

Saturday May 9th 2009 – 11AM ABC Shop Brookvale & 2PM ABC Shop Macquarie NSW

Sunday May 10th 2009- 11AM ABC Shop Miranda NSW

Friday 15th May 2009- 1PM ABC Shop Melbourne GPO VIC

Saturday 16th May 2009- 12PM ABC Shop Chadstone VIC

Saturday 30th May 2009- 12PM ABC Shop Indooroopily QLD

We are holding FIGHT CUBE battles at these instores, so if you can solve the Cube, bring it, race Lawrence for the chance to win prizes!

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Lawrence’s tv show “Lawrence Leung’s Choose Your Own Adventure” will premiere on ABC1 on Wednesday the 25th of March at 9:30pm. There’s a preview video at the ABC available now . To stay update with news you can befriend Lawrence on myspace or join the facebook group.