The trailer for ABC's new two-parter, Paper Giants: The Birth Of CLEO, has been released - and anyone who ever found themselves wishing that Underbelly featured more naked men instead of copious shots of nude women will be pleased to see that the infamous CLEO centrefold will feature heavily.
Starring Asher Keddie, Paper Giants looks at Ita Buttrose's rise through the Australian publishing ranks in the 1970s.
Here's the word on the show from the ABC:
"In early 1972, 30 year old journalist and editor, Ita Buttrose (Asher Keddie) and 35 year old Kerry Packer (Rob Carlton), heir to what was then Australia's most ruthlessly powerful and influential publishing family, got together to create a magazine that became one of the most dramatic sensations in Australian publishing history. CLEO went on to help define women, Australia and the relationship between the two."
Or, as they put it rather more bluntly in a press release late last year, "It's 1972. Skirts are up, pants are down".
The two-parter will screen at 8.30pm, Sunday 17 April and 8.30pm, Monday, 18 April, on ABC1.
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