Double Take (Australian TV series)

Double Take is an Australian sketch comedy series which premiered on the Seven Network on 23 July 2009.

It featured a number of sketches (notably, the song "9 to 9" (parodying Dolly Parton's "9 to 5") that became highly popular viral internet items, and led to the appearance of two of the programme's stars, Amanda Bishop and Paul McCarthy, in the ABC1 sitcom At Home With Julia (2011) co-written and produced by one of the show's co-creators, Rick Kalowski.

Double Take involves the presentation of a variety of skits, parodying famous people and television shows.

The debut episode of Double Take rated reasonably well, attracting an audience of 1.08 million people and winning the night among the coveted 25- to 54-year-old viewers' demographic.

Surprisingly, for a sketch comedy show (typically regarded by critics as a 'low art'), Double Take was well received by reviewers writing for Australia's major broadsheet newspapers The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age and The Australian, while earning negative criticism only from the more tabloid Daily Telegraph.