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Thank goodness for grade 6 because the grown-ups are like, oh my god, such a bunch of show-offs
IT'S irritating enough when Australian channels screen overseas programs with a Christmas storyline in the middle of winter, even more so when it's a homegrown show.
Not that you imagine the pre-teen target audience of Mortified is likely to be, well, mortified about that sort of nitpicking.
Taylor Fry is an 11-year-old schoolgirl who won't stop talking and is embarrassed big time on a daily basis by her mother and father. She fancies a boy in her class at school who doesn't fancy her and last week had some meaningful discussions about life and the onset of puberty with a talking greyhound. Usual sort of stuff.
It's soon clear Taylor (Marny Kennedy), who spends an inordinate amount of her time confiding in the...