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[09/25/23 - 02:01 PM]
Video: Prime Video Releases the Official Trailer for Australian Original Feature-Length Documentary "Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles"
Directed by Emmy-nominated director Sally Aitken, the nostalgia-inducing trailer depicts the meteoric rise of The Wiggles as they become the most successful children's act of all time, along with the challenges they've faced over the past three decades.

[via press release from Amazon]

Prime Video Releases the Official Trailer for Australian Original Feature-length Documentary Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

A backstage pass to one of the world's greatest entertainment stories

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles launches October 24 on Prime Video globally

SYDNEY - September 26, 2023 - Today, Prime Video released the official trailer for Australian Original documentary Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles, which launches globally on Tuesday, October 24 in more than 240 countries and territories. Directed by Emmy-nominated director Sally Aitken (Playing With Sharks, David Stratton: A Cinematic Life), the nostalgia-inducing trailer depicts the meteoric rise of The Wiggles as they become the most successful children's act of all time, along with the challenges they've faced over the past three decades. Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles becomes the latest addition to the Prime membership. Prime members enjoy savings, convenience, and entertainment, all in a single membership.

About Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles

This is the improbable story of The Wiggles, four friends who recorded a one-off album of children's music in the early '90s and changed the global music industry forever. Recognisable by their blue, red, yellow, and purple skivvies, Anthony Field, Murray Cook, Greg Page, and Jeff Fatt become an unlikely music phenomenon, equipped with early childhood teaching fundamentals and a dose of self-belief. Surmounting numerous rejections from industry producers, The Wiggles take their career into their own hands and become the most successful children's act of all time.

In the early 2010s, when three of the original four Wiggles retire from the group, the reaction is seismic. Parents have to explain to their children why their favourite people in the world aren't Wiggles any more, while in their place are three new members, including the first woman in the Australian group. The backlash is brutal. The Wiggles were used to performing to packed stadiums and are now back to half empty halls. They return to hard work, life on the road and making new music. Soon the new look Wiggles are on a trajectory to become bigger than ever. But the original line-up is still together in the background, a friendship that endured beyond their time in the group. It is almost inevitable that the OG's will perform together again, but when they do, it is with devastating results. In 2020, Greg Page has a cardiac arrest on stage in front of hundreds of adult fans at a charity gig. The international outpouring of love is proof their generations of fans are still there, and the OG Wiggles go on to delight thousands of adult fans in arena shows across Australia and New Zealand. In 2021, The Wiggles grow again, meeting 'woke' detractors head on, to reflect the pluralistic world we live in.

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles is a backstage pass to one of the world's greatest entertainment stories, and features decades of personal archive footage and intimate access to their sold-out shows. It's the story of a life of music, friendship, joy, and the enduring power of the child in all of us.

Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles features Anthony Field, Greg Page, Murray Cook, Jeff Fatt, Simon Pryce, Lachlan Gillespie, Tsehay Hawkins, Caterina Mete, Evie Ferris, John Pearce, Lucia Field, Emma Watkins, Sam Moran, Paul Field, Paul Paddick and Jackie Cannizzaro.

An Australian Original documentary, Hot Potato: The Story of The Wiggles is written and directed by Emmy-nominated director Sally Aitken, and produced by Dark Doris, Frog Productions, and SAM Content for Amazon Studios, with major production investment from Screen Australia in association with Screen NSW. Post, digital and visual effects supported by Screen NSW. Developed with assistance of Screen Australia and Screen NSW. The producers are Aline Jacques, Daniel Story, Cass Avery, Aitken, Fraser Grut, Kate Chiodo, and Luke Field.

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