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As Saturday night draws closer and public interest in bushfires starts to wane following their successful dousing with millions of litres of thoughts and prayers, Channel Nine Program Director Shamus Turner knows this can mean only one thing: that unless something really big gets blown up, it may be time to press the Sister Act 2 button again.

This week the Betoota Advocate sat down with the one and only John Safran. Listen here:

The large red button, installed following the movie’s release in 1993 and finally commissioned two years later when TCN9 purchased the Australian television rights, has consistently been pressed at least twice per month since, to the cataclysmic indifference of the viewing public.

The film, which currently has a 1 star rating on Rotten Tomatoes, stars Whoopi Goldberg and several other people who needed money in the early 90s. Set in a bad school in a bad neighbourhood, the movie features a choir competition in which the main characters of marginalised teens beat the kids from the rich school, just like practically every movie ever made which features a competition between 2 or more schools.

“It’s been a pretty rough week for everyone with these terrible bushfires and crazy temperatures” explained Turner, as he lovingly ran his finger around the perimeter of the oversized button. Sister Act 2 is exactly what Australia needs to kick back and relax with a few gags that were probably funny when it was released 26 years ago. Besides, the cost of the TV rights was fully amortised by 1996, so it’s actually cheaper than static.”

